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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Photograph Resources, Tips, Tutorials => Topic started by: deadants on Friday 08 July 05 23:14 BST (UK)
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Here are some websites that may help you to date your family photos :D
Also included are links to sites about bygone photographers and photographic studios
You should try to use all the clues you have in order to put a date to your photos. These include clothing worn by the subjects; the type of photograph; the photographer; where it was taken; any vehicles, buildings or other background objects; any other inclusions that might indicate a date.
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GENERAL DATING HELP
http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pruesfamily/Introduction.html
"What Photo is That? A guide to identifying 19th and early 20th century non-colour processes"
http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/time/date.htm
"Date a Carte de Visite Photograph"
http://www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/
"Victorian and Edwardian Photographs"
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22Toronto%2C+Ont.+%3A%22+T.+Eaton+Co.%2C%22%22
Old catalogues from the T.Eaton Co. of Canada - 1894, 1907 and 1920/1 - showing clothing and furnishings
http://www.ajmorris.com/roots/photo/index.php
"19th Century Photography"
http://www.fashion-era.com/index.htm
"illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_fashion
"Victorian fashion" (including handy diagram from 1868 of appropriate skirt lengths for girls!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_clothing_(Western_fashion)
"Clothing worn in Western Europe, the Americas, and countries under European or American influence from c. 1750 to World War II."
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/costume/nunn14.html
"What Victorian Children Wore"
http://www.shorpy.com/
Hundreds of photos (mainly American, but others too) from the dawn of photography to the 1940s, and beyond
http://www.familychronicle.com/dating.htm
"Dating Old Photographs"
http://www.reminiscene.co.uk/photographs.htm
"Reminiscene: Vintage photographs and postcards"
http://qvictoria.wordpress.com/
Watch The Birdie – Blog: The World of the Victorian Photographer
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pruesfamily/index.html
The RootsChat Collection of Victorian and Edwardian Portrait Photography
REGION AND LOCALITY SPECIFIC
http://www.photolondon.org.uk/default.asp
The Database of 19th Century Photographers and Allied Trades in London: 1841-1901
http://hipweb.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/cambscoll/indexRM.html
J Palmer Clarke / Ramsey & Muspratt Portrait Collection
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~liverpoolphotographers/
Liverpool, England
http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/2008/08/wh-macey-of-blenheim-new-zealand.html
New Zealand
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/
Edinburgh, Scotland (but includes lots of general information about early photography including types, prices etc.)
http://www.earlyphotographers.org.uk/welcome.html
Index of UK portrait & studio photographers c1840-1950
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~surreal/AVNE/Resources/photographers.html
Photographers in the Victorian North East (Australia)
http://www.cartedevisite.co.uk/
Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland 1840-1940
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/photos/dbyphotos.html
Photographers & Photographic Studios in Derbyshire, England
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Brighton-Photographers.htm
Brighton Photographers 1841-1910