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Evidence from family photos
Methods, How-to and Help
What are your tips for dating photographs?
https://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/what-are-your-tips-for-dating-photographs/
Identifying and Dating Historic Photographs
http://classyarts.com/howto.htm
How to Date Your Old Photos
http://www.aarp.org/relationships/genealogy/info-11-2011/dating-old-photos.html
Family Chronicle Magazine
Old Photographs
(4 page pdf)
http://www.internet-genealogy.com/Dating%20Old%20Photos.pdf
Follow the Clues - Dating Your Photographs
http://www.genealogy.com/articles/research/73_taylor.html
5 Steps for Identifying People in Old Family Photographs
http://genealogy.about.com/od/photo_dating/ss/identification.htm
Family Tree Magazine
Photo Detective Blog
https://www.familytreemagazine.com/category/photos/
Put A Date On That Old (Victorian or Edwardian) Photograph
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~victorianphotographs/
Collection of dated photographs in public domain
http://classyarts.com/photos.htm
History of technologies and techniques
Photohistory Articles, Information and Publications
http://classyarts.com/articles.htm
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Family Photographs
http://genealogy.about.com/library/authors/ucmishkin1a.htm
Cabinet Card
http://genealogy.about.com/od/photo_dating/p/cabinet_card.htm
Date a Carte de Visite Photograph
http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/time/date.htm
Reference Collections
19th and Early 20th Century Photographs
http://www.phototree.com/
Past to Present - Vintage Photo Gallery
http://www.past-to-present.com/
Using costume and fashion to date images
Dating Ancestor Photos Through Clothing and Hairstyles
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/fashions-photos.shtml
How to Date Old Photographs by the Costume
http://www.fashion-era.com/Dating_Costume_History_Pictures/
Photo Detective: Dating Women's Clothing
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/article/PhotoDetective-Dating-Womens-Clothing/
Dating Your Vintage Photographs: Women’s Clothing Styles
http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/dating-vintage-photographs-1840-2
Genealogy research: Dating vintage photographs by clothing & hairstyles
http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/814584/genealogy-research-dating-vintage-photographs-by-clothing-and-hairstyles-1
Family photos: what are they wearing?
https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/family-photos-what-are-they-wearing-1406240689.html
Focus on hairstyles
Examples of
Victorian and Edwardian Era hairstyles
The Costume Gallery: Hairstyle History
http://www.costumegallery.com/hairstyles.htm
Using features of the constructed landscape
Antique, Classic & Collector Car Photo Galleries
http://www.hubcapcafe.com/
Identify (!920s Queensland) car number plates
http://hdl.handle.net/10462/pdf/2155
Dating Old Photographs From Light Poles
http://www.telephonecollecting.org/lightpoles.htm
Tracking the photographer
Timeline for
Mathewson & Co
artist photographers
Dating photos with the aid of trade directories
http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/dating-photos-with-aid-of-trade.html
Early UK photographers
http://earlyphotographers.org.uk/index.html
Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland 1840-90
http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/c
Don't forget the link collections
Pictures and images on
CoraWeb
http://www.coraweb.com.au/categories/pictures-and-images
Photos on
Cyndi's List
http://www.cyndislist.com/photos.htm
And there is always a Google Search
(yes that is a link)
H V Smith used these links
in her presentation
:
A
Collection of Cabinet Cards
of known date for comparison purposes.
Dated examples of
35mm Slide Mounts
used by Kodachrome
Time stamp
codes for Polaroid print paper
Victoria and Albert Museum Fashion Timelines
1840-1900
and
1900-1970
Some useful reference texts:
The mechanical eye in Australia : photography 1841-1900
/ Alan Davies & Peter Stanbury
Australians behind the camera : directory of early Australian photographers, 1841 to 1945
/ Sandy Barrie
Dating Family Photos 1850-1920
/ Lenore Frost