Photo Detective: Western Mystery Premium
Front Back In this case study, three different people wrote captions on the back of a photograph. The earliest identifies the image as "My dady (sic) + half brother." Other individuals named the men as "Great Grandfather Pugh, Grandma Youngs father + her brother" and "...
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Once you've built your own family photo collection, it's important to identify and preserve the pictures you worked so hard to find.
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Tracie Rose is determined to find out more about her unusual family name, Bankz. She's posted online queries, searched databases and looked in public records. Now she owns a photo she suspects is of her great-grandfather Jamel Elvin Bankz, his brother, and their parents. Will it help solve her...
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American mothers seeking status in their community latched onto the Little Lord Fauntleroy look as a visual representation of the family's economic and social standing.
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Tips for solving 20th-century photo mysteries.
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In the 19th century, families sometimes added an interesting twist (or braid or curl) to their memory albums: pieces of their friends' and relatives' hair.
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Photo Detective: The Height of Fashion Premium
Tips to help this fashionable young lady's modern family find out who she is.
View DetailsPhoto Detective: Boy or Girl? Premium
Cathy Quiles knows one of the people in this tintype is her great-aunt because her grandmother told her so, but which one? Is she one of the kids or one of the women? Quiles tried to figure out who's who, but can't tell the boys from the girls. Until the...
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Could early photo studios make reprints?
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Emery Veres, born in 1882, smiled at the camera from the back of a wagon for this undated photo.
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