Lost Faces: Ancestor Photos & Albums

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Photographs of Ancestors - we all want them, some of us are lucky enough to have them. Learn how to date these old photos. Share your ancestor photos . NOTE: Do not upload photos wider than 500 pixels. See "Uploading Photos to the Group" for help.

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Uploading Photos to the Group

PLEASE upload photos in the DISCUSSION FORUM and not the COMMENT WALL. All questions, queries, and ancestor photos should go in DISCUSSION. It's easier to keep track of answers, and it helps all of us to help each other.

Photos being uploaded to this group are stretching and are not displaying properly. The solution is to RESIZE your photo before you upload. I use IRFANVIEW which is a free graphic program. But you can use any program you like.

Open your photo, and RESIZE it so that the width is no more than 550 pixels. Make sure the aspect ratio is set and that way the length will resize automatically. Click SAVE (I like to SAVE AS a new file so I still have the original) and then upload the smaller image (550 wide) to this group. Your photo will then display as it should without the stretching

How to Date an Ancestor Photograph

Click on the links below to read details of the tips and hints for dating ancestor photographs. More tips will be added over the next few weeks.

Hints For Dating an Ancestor Photograph

Corners From 1859 on, CDVs had square cut corners. From 1872 on, corners were rounded... (continue reading)

Using Revenue Stamps to Date Photographs

In the United States, an act of Congress passed on June 30, 1864 added a new tax on all "photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes or any ... (continue reading)

Examples of Photographs

Click on the links to see examples and read descriptions of old photographs. The description includes tips and techniques you can use to date your own photographs.

Discussion Forum

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Comment by Stacye Mehard on July 22, 2009 at 9:06am: katie ~ The password protection feature on flickr is activiated for your photo. If you look directly underneath the photo there is a link which says "everyone can see this picture".
Try clicking through to that so (maybe) we'll get to see it. I'm on Flickr myself so if that doesn't work I can friend you on Flickr then I can see it.

Comment by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on July 20, 2009 at 6:48am: Cyndi - This is an early 1850s style dress and bonnet. I'd make a stab at 1850-1855, leaning more towards the later part of those 5 years.

The question is, since this is an elderly woman, was she dressing in a style from her youth? Or was she wearing clothes long out of style, perhaps not wanting (or caring!) to buy new?

Comment by Cyndi Rutledge on July 20, 2009 at 5:35am: Trying my Sally Warren Wood again--resized!

Comment by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on July 20, 2009 at 5:07am: Cyndi - Can you please resize your photo and upload again so it doesn't stretch out of shape? See my instructions above the Discussion Forum area. It looks like a lovely photo but we need to see it clearly:-)

Comment by Katie Heidenfelder on July 20, 2009 at 12:17am: I'm sorry. I did not realize the image I had on Flickr was so small. Here is a link (I hope) to a larger one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katie_heidenfelder/3738342134/sizes/o/

Assuming I did this right, it is very large - 10 MG.

Unfortunately, I do not have the original image. So I can't answer questions about the format of the original.

I really appreciate any help you can give me. If I can date the photo, I can probably figure out who it is.
Thanks so much,
Katie

Comment by Cyndi Rutledge on July 19, 2009 at 11:07pm: Hi all,

I believe this to be my g-g-g-g-g-great-grandmother, Sarah (Sally) Warren b. ca 1875 Mass, d. aft 1870 TN or NY, apparently in a time when people didn't have shoulders! It's tintype (I think) and part of an album belonging to my ancestor, her son-in-law Theodore H Gibbs.

Can anyone share any feedback re clothing, dating, phot style--anything? Going to a reunion and would love to be able to share some info with attendees... thanks!
Cyndi

Comment by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on July 19, 2009 at 3:25pm: Kate, the flickr image is no bigger than this one but I saved it to my computer and enlarged it in Picasa. I can't see it well enough to make an educated guestimate but -- here are some questions that if you can answer, they will help us all determine a date

1. What is the size of the original photo?

2. What kind of paper is it on? thin? thick?

3. Is there a photographer name/location anywhere?

See the Hints for Dating an Ancestor Photo in the Discussion Forum here to see why I want to know the answers to these 3 questions.

1849 is extremely early to have a photo! And the fact that the women are showing their ankles, plus their hairstyles and even their tiered gowns makes me think it is much later.

Eagerly waiting for the answers to the 3 questions :-)

Comment by Stacye Mehard on July 19, 2009 at 2:35pm: katie, I couldn't see close enough (even on flickr) to examine the women's clothing ~ the armhole style, etc. ~ but the dresses look post civil war to me.

Comment by Katie Heidenfelder on July 19, 2009 at 10:27am: I would love to have some feedback on this photo. Based upon the family it is associated with and some (very limited) research on dating photos, I believe it it is the wedding photo of my GG Grandfather and GG Grandmother, which would have been taken in 1849. He would have been 37 years old, and she would have been 19 years. If you don't think this is correct, I would really appreciate feedback regarding possible dates for this photo.

If this image is not large enough, here is a link to the Flickr image: http://tinyurl.com/bockius

Thanks in advance for your help!
Katie

Comment by Alan Martin Long on July 19, 2009 at 8:35am: Hi Folk's . This is a Photo of my Great GrandFather, in Cork Ireland. The Long Family as far back as I could go were Cabinet Makers.
This Photo was a Glass Negitive which I scaned on to my Computer. I am not to sure of the Year.
Regards Alan Long