The Spring 1997 issue of Pennsylvania History (volume 64, number 2) was entirely devoted to the history of photography in Pennsylvania. The edition met with great success, winning that year the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives' Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizing the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region; and the Society of American Archivists' Hamer-Kegan Award for increased public awareness of a specific body of records.
In mid-2013, Pennsylvania History editor Bill Pencak decided it would be good to produce another issue on the same theme, and already had accepted two articles (those on Terrance V. Powderly and Robert Ginsberg). He again invited this author to be guest editor. Alas, as we were gathering the other articles, Bill suddenly passed away in December. I greatly regret he will never see the results, yet I also feel he is looking down on me as...
