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Re: strange reference questions



Since no one has mentioned anything like the following yet, here's my
contribution.

We recently had a patron who insisted he was reincarnated from a student
who attended Ohio State in the 1890s.  He became indignant when we couldn't
produce any photographs of the buildings he supposedly took classes in as a
student (one wasn't even built until the 1910s).  He insisted that we were
hiding photographs from him, even after we pulled out blueprints to prove
construction dates.

To satisfy our own curiosities, we called the registrar and had her
research his supposed former name - and needless to say, no such student
was ever enrolled at OSU by the name he gave us (we even tried inverting
the last and first names).

Just another day at the archives....


Julie A. Petersen
Audiovisual Curator, Photo Archives
The Ohio State University Archives
2700 Kenny Road
Columbus, OH 43210
TEL:    614-292-1767
FAX:    614-688-4150
petersen.51@osu.edu

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