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Maureen Taylor loves family photographs. All of them — from the mystery images you find in shoeboxes and albums to the pictures you snap with your digital devices.My skills live at the junction of history, genealogy and photography.
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Wish You Were Here: Postcards as Family History (opens the original)
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I love exploring local history and creating my own tours of the past using architectural histories, old maps, directories, and other records. It’s a real-life way to time-travel. But a key component of those tours is images. Maps can tell us where something stood, but photographs allow us to actually see the past.Here’s a perfect example.Thanks for reading The Photo Detective News! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="
Finding Genealogy in Unexpected Places (opens the original)
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We’ve been traveling a lot lately, and one thing never ceases to amaze me: the records tucked away in smaller museums—sometimes even displayed out in public.Or maybe, as a genealogist and historian, I simply see family history everywhere.At Delphi in Greece, for instance, I encountered records that were almost impossible to overlook. More than a thousand Greek inscriptions record the manumission, or freeing, of enslaved people during the centuries from 200 B. C. to 100 A.DThink about that for a
Postcards in Your Family Part 2 (opens the original)
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Here’s the second round of postcards found in your collections. Postcards and photography, in general, were used for everything from sharing private family moments to sharing news and places to visit. The owner of the photo is listed below an image<img alt="
Postcards in Your Family (opens the original)
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Eleven people responded to the call for images of postcards from their family. I’ll break them into two categories: printed photos and Real Photo postcards. I’ve included a watermark on these images and a caption below identifying the owner of the image. Thanks for reading The Photo Detective News! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Photo Detective Tip for Postcards (opens the original)
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The stamp box, postcard design, photographer’s imprint, faint pencil notation, postmark, address, and handwriting are all part of the history of the photograph. If you separate the front from the back in your digital collection, you may also be separating the photograph from the clues that help identify it.The next time you find a Real Photo Postcard in your family collection, don’t just look at who’s pictured.Thanks for reading The Photo Detective News! Subscribe for free t
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