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Link: Identifying spectacles in historic photos / paintings
« on: Wednesday 29 June 05 22:53 BST (UK) »
You may have photographs (or drawing) of an ancestor with spectacles.

This website might help you a little bit in identifying the era of spectacles in historic photos:

http://www.college-optometrists.org/en/knowledge-centre/museyeum/online_exhibitions/spectacles/invention.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasses

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