This well published photograph of Amedee is credited to Eastman Studios. During the early 1960s, with the upcoming Lassen County Centennial, many an old time resident wanted to have a historic photographs duplicated. They went to Mirl Simmons, the owner of Eastman Studios, and he obliged by having a copy negative made, and subsequent prints could be made. Unbeknownst, Simmons have two copy negatives made-one for the customer and one for him. Lo and behold it would be about a month that Simmons’ turned their customer’s historic photograph into a postcard, with out that person’s consent and/or acknowledgement.  When Lena Trumbull had her Amedee photograph for reproduced, she was livid when Simmons copied it and made into a postcard.

Tim

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