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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1934/5 Round the World trip
« on: Tuesday 12 February 19 23:12 GMT (UK)  »
In 1934-5 my mother, then 17, with her 19 yr old sister, were taken by their parents from London via Gibraltar, toulon, Naples, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, KL,  Singapre and Batavia to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA before sailing back to Britain. My mother kept a pocket diary, I would be very grateful for a transcription, please ?  I've had a go at the beginning :-
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Saturday, 27 October 1934
PACKING
Christian and Lettice to breakfast. Lady Read, sister Agnes & Mrs. Whitely to lunch. “Clive of India” with Colin Keith-Johnson. NOT so good. He was nice though.  His wife was a nuisance.  Aunt Agnes to tea!  She is an awful woman!  Home.  Dad 13th Hussar’s dinner, home very late.

Sunday, 28 October 1934
H. [her sister Heather] took G.M. [Gypsy Moth, her pony] over to Odiham where



Monday, 29 October 1934



Tuesday, 30 October 1934



Wednesday, 31 October 1934



Thursday, 01 November 1934



Friday, 02 November 1934



Saturday, 03 November 1934



Sunday, 04 November 1934



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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Date, anyone for Bode Lady ?
« on: Tuesday 31 October 17 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
No, I'm not making a proposal !

Any experts able to help date this photo. please ?

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Photograph Resources, Tips, Tutorials / Some ideas for you - Biggest Mistakes when reading old handwriting
« on: Thursday 20 July 17 00:55 BST (UK)  »
http://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/biggest-mistake-reading-old-handwriting/

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Cartes de Visite Album, Page 50
« on: Monday 28 April 14 23:14 BST (UK)  »
My grandmother's grandmother was Martha Hammond Thornewill (of Burton-o[-Trent) nee Wright (of Eyam).  I have her album of some 150 Cartes de Visite, with not very many of them identified.    I have scanned the empty pages, and front & back of each card. 

This is the last page, Page 50.  It holds only one picture, and, despite the SubjectLine, it is actually a "Cabinet Card", rather than a Carte de Visite.

The photograph is of an elderly man; his garb suggests to me that he might be a priest - what do you think ?

And can you hazard a guess as to his age ?  And the date of the picture ?  Given those, we get an approximate date of birth, which just might enable me to identify the subject !  Information about the Studio would be of interest, too.

I'm posting the lo-res versions, so please don't bother to try to improve them.

I am gathering the comments to store in a file alongside the pictures, and, when finished, it will be quite a task to analyse them all and draw deductions as to the identity of some currently unknown.

Page 49 appeared previously; see
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=685339.0

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Cartes de Visite Album, Page 49
« on: Monday 28 April 14 00:02 BST (UK)  »
My grandmother's grandmother was Martha Hammond Thornewill (of Burton-o[-Trent) nee Wright (of Eyam).  I have her album of some 150 Cartes de Visite, with not very many of them identified.    I have scanned the empty pages, and front & back of each card. 

Can you tell me what date each of these is from, please?  That will help me to establish the year of birth, which just might enable me to identify the subject !  Information about the Studio would be of interest, too.

Page 49 contains three man and a lad.  One man is identified; the others I believe to be the owner's three sons, who previously appeared with her on previous page, Page 48, see http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=684829.0

Do you agree? 

I'm posting the lo-res versions, so please don't bother to try to improve them.

I am gathering the comments to store in a file alongside the pictures, and, when finished, it will be quite a task to analyse them all and draw deductions as to the identity of some currently unknown.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Cartes de Visite by Camille Silvy
« on: Wednesday 23 April 14 18:38 BST (UK)  »
A very helpful person at the National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/
was so kind as to write to me, Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:34 PM

I have looked through the various pages [on Cartes de Visite] illustrated on rootschat, ....

I also noticed a number of cartes-de-visite by Camille Silvy. Note that we have the daybooks from Silvy’s studio in our collection. See the following link for more details (look at the listing for albums 1-12):
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/photographs-collection/photographic-holdings-albums.php

With just a surname, it is possible to search (we have a database of sitters in the daybooks) for particular sitters and find a match, thus also helping to date the photographs. Where a name is not known, it is possible to go through the daybooks and locate the images, but there are twelve volumes containing approximately 17000 images.

[Footnote originally added has been removed at her request]

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Cartes de Visite Album, Page 48
« on: Wednesday 23 April 14 09:40 BST (UK)  »
My grandmother's grandmother was Martha Hammond Thornewill (of Burton-o[-Trent) nee Wright (of Eyam).  I have her album of some 150 Cartes de Visite, with not very many of them identified.    I have scanned the empty pages, and front & back of each card. 

Can you tell me what date each of these is from, please?  That will help me to establish the year of birth, which just might enable me to identify the subject !  Information about the Studio would be of interest, too.

Page 48 contains a man, a man and a woman - these are the owner of the album and her son, I believe - a man, and a lad.

I'm posting the lo-res versions, so please don't bother to try to improve them.

I am gathering the comments to store in a file alongside the pictures, and, when finished, it will be quite a task to analyse them all and draw deductions as to the identity of some currently unknown.

For Page 47, see
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=684730.0
which also contain links to the previous pages.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Cartes de Visite Album, Page 47
« on: Tuesday 22 April 14 08:49 BST (UK)  »
My grandmother's grandmother was Martha Hammond Thornewill (of Burton-o[-Trent) nee Wright (of Eyam).  I have her album of some 150 Cartes de Visite, with not very many of them identified.    I have scanned the empty pages, and front & back of each card. 

Can you tell me what date each of these is from, please?  That will help me to establish the year of birth, which just might enable me to identify the subject !  Information about the Studio would be of interest, too.

Page 47 contains a woman and three men; I haven't a clue who any of them are !

I'm posting the lo-res versions, so please don't bother to try to improve them.

I am gathering the comments to store in a file alongside the pictures, and, when finished, it will be quite a task to analyse them all and draw deductions as to the identity of some currently unknown.

For Page 46, see
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=684249.0
which also contain links to the previous pages.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Cartes de Visite Album, Page 46
« on: Wednesday 16 April 14 23:45 BST (UK)  »
My grandmother's grandmother was Martha hammond Thornewill (of Burton-o[-Trent) nee Wright (of Eyam).  I have her album of some 150 Cartes de Visite, with not very many of them identified.    I have scanned the empty pages, and front & back of each card. 

Can you tell me what date each of these is from, please?  That will help me to establish the year of birth, which just might enable me to identify the subject !  Information about the Studio would be of interest, too.

Page 46 contains three men and a woman.

I'm posting the lo-res versions, so please don't bother to try to improve them.

I am gathering the comments to store in a file alongside the pictures, and, when finished, it will be quite a task to analyse them all and draw deductions as to the identity of some currently unknown.

For Page 45, see
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=683997.0 
which also contain links to the previous pages.

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