#AtoZChallenge - I is for Images
Images. They are so important to family history and half my fun on this blog at least is trying to decipher old family photos. Of course I need to look after them too. I fear I am not doing a good job of this at the moment but will be vastly aided by having recently won a beautiful Albox Archival Album. Thank you Gould Genealogy and History. But I digress. Books that have helped me enormously in the deciphering and curation of family photos are: Dating Family Photos 1850-1920 by Lenore Frost - published in Victoria in 1991 the first part of the books looks at dating by type of photo and the second part dating by costume with sections broken into men, women, children, weddings, riding habits, working clothes and mourning clothes. There is an excellent glossary (what is a paletot?) and bibliography. This book is out of print now but you may be able to pick up a 2nd hand copy somewhere. The Mechanical Eye - A History of Australian Phot...