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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
What is a Family Photograph Collection?
About This Book
How to Use It
CHAPTER 1: Bringing the Past to Life
Compiling a Visual History
How to Get Started
Identification Tips
Draw Conclusions
CASE STUDY: More Than Meets the Eye
CHAPTER 2: Talking with Relatives
The Interview Process
CASE STUDY: The Power of Persistence
CASE STUDY: The Bessette Family
CASE STUDY: Tall Tales and True Stories
CHAPTER 3: Cased Images
Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Tintypes
Daguerreotypes
Ambrotypes
Tintypes
How to Identify a Cased Image
Dating a Cased Image
CASE STUDY: Metal Mysteries
CASE STUDY: Dating Cases
CHAPTER 4: Paper Prints and Negatives
Talbotypes: The First Paper Prints
Card Photographs
Stereographs
Candid Photography
Dating Paper Prints
Dating Portraits
Dating the Card Stock of Stereographs
Other Dating Clues
Negatives
Other Photographic Formats
CASE STUDY: Not In the Family
CHAPTER 5: Color and Digital Photographs
Hand-Coloring
Retouching
Color Photography
Polaroid
Digital Photographs
CASE STUDY: Wedding Album
CHAPTER 6: Identifying the Photographer
Photographer’s Imprint
Researching a Photographer
Online Help
CASE STUDY: Tracking the Manchester Brothers
CASE STUDY: Which is the Original?
CHAPTER 7: Images From Birth to Death
Children
School
Weddings
Military Service
Holidays
Religious Occasions
Vacations and Recreation
Postmortem
CASE STUDY: Barker Cotton Mill School
CHAPTER 8: Looking for Clues
Family Resemblances
Props and Backdrops
Internal Information
Finding Answers
Public Libraries
Special Libraries
Research Resources Online
Building a Home Library
CASE STUDY: A Family Resemblance
CASE STUDY: Celebrity Look-Alike
CASE STUDY: Star Signs
CASE STUDY: The Curiosity Shop
CASE STUDY: Examining the Front and the Back of an Image
CASE STUDY: Internal Details
CHAPTER 9: Identifying Costume
Women’s Fashions
Men’s Fashions
Resources for Costume Dating
CASE STUDY: Alice McDuff
CHAPTER 10: Reading the Clues in Photographs
Matrimonial Images
Military Images
Finding New Pictures
Immigrant Images
Foreign Lands
Magnifying the Details
Comparing Pictures
Following the Trail
Documentary Evidence
CASE STUDY: Civil War Views
CASE STUDY: A Mystery at Sea
CASE STUDY: Links to La Familia
CHAPTER 11: Photograph Albums
CASE STUDY: Family Photo Album
CHAPTER 12: Adding Up the Clues
Family First
Format Focus
Ancestral Fashionistas
Family Complexities
Don’t Jump to Conclusions
Photo Reunion Sites
Online Success
CASE STUDY: The Mysterious Ladies
CASE STUDY: Civil War Made Easy
CASE STUDY: Bridging the Past
CASE STUDY: Celebrate the Details to Discover the Story
CASE STUDY: A Family Photo Mystery Remains
Appendices
Labeling Your Images
Worksheets
Important Addresses
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Free Downloads
Copyright
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