I love old family photos. I have lots - wish I had more. I cherish them.
We take picture taking for granted nowadays. With digital cameras we can take as many as we want. Back in the olden days few were taken. You are lucky if you have very many of your ancestor's photos.
I've been doing a little research lately on vintage pictures. I have quite a few that are on the back of postcards. I always thought that was interesting. Below are three and the backs of two of them.
I found a site that tells you how you can date them. Have fun dating yours.
Click here to go to it.
The information confirmed my idea of when these pictures were taken.
I also have this picture. I haven't been able to find any images like this online. Can any of you help me in finding out what type of picture this is? This picture is attached to a metal oval. There is small punched hole in the top for hanging. The paper is torn and coming unattached to the metal. The baby in the picture is my mother, so I know it was taken in the mid 1920s.
Tin type pictures are also neat. Here are two small ones. They have a hole punched in the top right corner and the pictures are dark. I have copies of these and a copy of the one above, too.
Quite a while back I did a post here telling about how you can display your old family photos.
I wrote a poem once, inspired by some of my family photos.
TRAVELING
PHOTOGRAPHER
by Janet F. Smart
The traveling photographer
Caught their solemn pose
For a few moments
Their current life froze.
Their
neatly groomed hair
Their finest attire
Captured in hist’ry
For us to admire.
Just
a tiny piece
A snippet of life
That solemn portrait
Of husband and wife.
One look at the past
One page in a book
Of life long ago
In pictures he took.
Do you have a lot of old family pictures? Do you have yours in shoe boxes, detailed scrapbooks, photo albums, displayed about your house in frames? Or all of the above?
I hope the link helps you in dating them.
I hope the link helps you in dating them.
And I hope names are on them and you know who they are.
