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help dating photo

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 2:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 Oct 2012 3:01PM GMT
my mom gave me this photo and we are trying to date it because we are trying to locate the people in it..it will help if we know the year to start. thanks


Forgot to say that this particular photo is of most inportant to get date on....And if anyone runs across this photo and knows the people in it...Please please please let me know...

thanks again Lisa
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Re: help dating photo

Posted: 18 Jul 2013 11:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am going to say that this photo is from around 1910 to 1920. I could be wrong on this, as the styles are very general and really could show any time period in at least certain places in the USA from some time in the 19th century to up to the 1930s.

However the group are posed relatively informally and are clearly not in a studio, so I'm not going for the 19th century.

The doors of the house likewise do not strike me as 19th century - and indeed you may well be able to get a pretty accurate date of the doors by comparing them to doors on architecture based websites. Of course, once in place a door might last decades. The family strike me as poor, and so the clothes they are wearing may well not be the most fashionable. Likewise that stool may be far from new.

There is clearly no father in this photo, he might be taking the photo, might be at work or might be dead or elsewhere, almost certainly it shows a mother and 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys, and I think the age order is fairly obvious too - all particular family order should make it relatively easy to at least eliminate a lot of possible family groups from your tree.

Hopefully other folk will have some helpful comments.

Regards

Neil
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