Archives for Maureen A. Taylor
Collecting Photo Information Premium
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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Photo Detective: Inked Identity Premium
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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Photo Detective: A Royal Look for Boys Premium
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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Photo Detective: Dating Modern Photos Premium
Tips for solving 20th-century photo mysteries.
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Hair Heirlooms Premium
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.
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Photo 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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Photo Detective: Same Photo, Different Imprint Premium
Could early photo studios make reprints?
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Photo Detective: On the Move Premium
Emery Veres, born in 1882, smiled at the camera from the back of a wagon for this undated photo.
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Photo Detective: Unhidden Treasure Premium
Until recently, Mike Duckwall was an addicted genealogist who didn't own many photos or family papers—until he found another relative's research and a big box of pictures in his uncle's closet. "This box was like a treasure chest full of gold," Mike says. It's easy to...
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