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Libraries and Archives • United States Army Military History Institute Carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/photoDB.html Write to Special Collections, 22 Ashburn Dr., Carlisle, PA 17013. Use the Web site and archive to find photographs of military participation. • Steamship Historical Society of America www.ubalt.edu/archives/ship/transe.htm University of Baltimore Library...
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In your own collection there are probably images of individuals wearing clothing that puzzles you. Some may be recognizable as work outfits while others remain mysterious. You might have an occupational portrait and not know it because you don't associate the clothing worn in the picture with a particular...
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This photograph of two girls belonged to LaVonne Murray's great-grandparents Maitland Willits House and Louise Anna Gonion. The younger girl bears a resemblance to another relative, Lydia Lymburner (1867-1947); Murray wonders if the girl could be Penelope Lymburner (1897-1980), Lydia's niece. Assigning a date to this photograph would allow Murray...
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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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A single family photograph can serve as a valuable social history document. Take for example this group portrait (Figure 1), which provides a link to a violent chapter in American history: the settlement of the West. Phyllis King found this picture among her great-grandparents Arthur D. Barrows and Francis A...
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