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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Daguerrotype Restoration Mother Luscher
« on: Saturday 09 November 19 23:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much for your persistence!  I like the colors you chose for those who colorized.  What a great group!

Cheers~  Carol

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Daguerrotype Restoration Mother Luscher
« on: Monday 04 November 19 23:52 GMT (UK)  »
Wow, I'm pleasantly surprised at all the results.  Did not realize the images were reversed in daguerrotypes so appreciate being educated on that.  I LOVE the results!

Thanks to japeflakes, Trishanne and McGroger!  You are truly photo angels!

Carol Ballard

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / "Mother Luscher" daguerrotype
« on: Monday 04 November 19 00:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Somehow only the back of this photo was posted in my last try.  Here's the front which I'd love to see cleaned up.  The image is pretty good actually.  I believe the photo to be of Johanna Graf my 2GG, born in 1806, died in 1899 in Switzerland. 

Thank you all and cheers~   Carol Ballard

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Daguerrotype Restoration Mother Luscher
« on: Sunday 03 November 19 22:13 GMT (UK)  »
This daguerreotype has a very light pencil notation on the back that says Mother Luscher.  I believe it to be my 2GG who was born in 1806 and died in 1889 in Switzerland.  Would love to see a cleaned up version.

Thank you,   Carol Ballard   Olympia, WA  USA

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1920's family photos Gillespie, Illinois
« on: Wednesday 30 October 19 19:06 GMT (UK)  »
Yes I am very pleased.  It took the color one to notice that my Mom had a fur collar on her coat!  Also, all those iterations of the man have convinced me that it is a rare photo of my grandfather who died before I was born in a coal mine collapse.

Thanks to all of you.   I posted two more but it looks like they didn't attach somehow.  So, I'll do them one at a time.  This one is my mom and two of her siblings on a horse probably in Illinois.

Cheers~   Carol Ballard

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / 1920's family photos Gillespie, Illinois
« on: Saturday 26 October 19 23:13 BST (UK)  »
My mother was born in Arkansas in 1918 to a poor dirt farming family.  These are some childhood photos of her and her two closest in age siblings, Leroy and Esther.  There is also one with Mom and Leroy and a man I believe to be their father, my grandfather, Ray Garner with a gun and a hunting dog.

Whatever you can do to bring these photos to life is much appreciated.

Thank you,   Carol Ballard

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please restore photo of Mom and her Garner siblings as children
« on: Saturday 26 October 19 23:04 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much to all of you who gave a go at my old photo of my mom and her siblings in Illinois in about 1925.  I enjoyed every iteration.  I particularly got a kick out of the lovely jacket of sorts with a lacey collar that one of you put on my mom in the center of the photo.  It is much more attractive than the overalls she probably had on!  I doubt that in her childhood she ever owned anything so fancy.

Much appreciated folks.  More to come!   Sincerely,  Carol Ballard    BTW: I now live in Olympia, Washington in the States but spent a year in Birmingham in 1995 teaching on a Fulbright Teacher Exchange.  I loved England and have many friends still there.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please restore photo of Mom and her Garner siblings as children
« on: Monday 21 October 19 00:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi!   I'm thrilled with the outcome of the restoration of the photo of my family.  Thanks so much for the quick response and the great result.

Cheers~  Carol Ballard

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Please restore photo of Mom and her Garner siblings as children
« on: Saturday 19 October 19 20:07 BST (UK)  »
My mother grew up very poor in Arkansas and Illinois.  This photo would have been taken in about 1929, probably in Gillespie, Illinois, a farm and coal mining town just east of St Louis.  My mom, Orpha Garner, is the one in the middle back.  She was born in 1918 in rural Arkansas.  Her brother Leroy is on her left and her sister Esther is on her right.  In front are her sisters Joyce and Shirley.  By then their father (who would later die in a coal mine collapse) was a coal miner and they were visiting farming relatives probably outside Gillespie.

Thank you,   Carol Ballard, Olympia, WA

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