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After seeing what last week's muggy weather did to my printer cartridge, I knew it was time to write a column on preserving family photographs. The same conditions that caused my printer to spit out discolored copies can damage your photographs, as well. Mold loves warm, moist conditions. And have...
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Our photo expert answers questions on 19th-century images.
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Clues in this couple's finest attire can help identify them.
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Figure 1 Figure 2 Which is worse? Having an unidentified photograph, or owning an identified image and not knowing anything about the person in the picture? For Michelle Hawkins-Woodard, it is the latter. Her family owns two pictures. Figure 1 is a family photograph of Ella Emma Gust, Jack...
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Cherryl Montgomery found this tintype in her grandmother's trunk, and thinks it's a picture of one of her great-grandmothers—either Clara Henry Jean Louis or Marie Virginie Broussard. In the absence of a photographer's imprint—which could supply a specific date for the image—it's necessary to analyze each of...
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Readers of this column always have something in common. Although each of your photos is unique (I haven't seen any duplicates yet), you pose similar sets of questions about them. The most frequent one? That's easy: "Which relative is it?" Working with family photographs and genealogical information is...
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You never know what you'll find in a family photo collection. Imagine Carole Gefvert's surprise when she found these unidentified images in a box after her mother's death. All Gefvert knows for certain about her mother is that she died in 1971. Could these photographs have belonged to her mother...
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Vicki Gibbs' family photo collection contains multiple copies of one photograph—but no original. Sometimes the history of a photograph is like a game of telephone. The person who owns the original makes a copy for a relative and identifies the picture. That person then makes a duplicate for...
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Shirley Holdahl owns this deteriorating tintype, and she wants to know if there’s a way to save it. Anyone with a photo in poor condition has probably wondered the same thing. The answer is yes! Let’s look at the options. First on the list is identifying the person...
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Got gaps in your family photo collection? Here are some ways to start filling in the blanks in your album and finding pictures of your ancestors.
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