Tag: Photography

Old Group Photos: Someone Else’s Ancestors

.Reading time 3 minutes.

Maybe you love to stare into the faces of those captured in long-ago photographs and search for a lost image of a long-dead ancestor.  Maybe you just like old photos. In our family, we’ve had an old group photograph from 1924 for … well, since it was taken in 1924.  The story behind the photograph […]

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3 Quick Tips to Unlock the Secrets of an Old Lowell Photo

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Photographs capture a moment in time, a moment that begins evaporating just as soon as the shutter releases. Be it seconds, minutes, years, or decades later, that photograph cannot be recreated, because the moment is gone, replaced with the next, which itself disappears into another.

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Dating Old Photographs – The Clues that Tintypes Hold, 1890

.Reading time 11 minutes.

Most family historians have THAT box.  The box always looks roughly the same.  It’s the box that belonged to the toaster your mother had three toasters ago.  Or, maybe it’s a shoebox for a pair of long-lost boat shoes from Thom McAn or a gift box from Anderson Little (remember them?).  Maybe it’s a bag […]

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