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Uncovering your ancestry through family photographs / Maureen A. Taylor.
LIBRA - Rare CS14 .T39 2000 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Maureen Alice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genealogy.
- Portrait photography--History.
- Portrait photography.
- History.
- Genre:
- Genealogy.
- History.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 145 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati, Ohio : Betterway Books, [2000]
- Summary:
- Includes a timeline of photographic history, list of conservators, national archives, and websites and worksheets.
- Contents:
- Bringing the past to life
- Cased images: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes
- Paper prints and negatives
- Color photographs
- Looking for clues
- Identifying the photographer
- Images from birth to death
- Identifying costume
- Talking with relatives
- Library research for photographs
- Building a family collection
- Putting all the clues together: two case studies.
- Notes:
- "Editor: Cindy Laufenberg."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-132) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 1558705279
- 9781558705272
- OCLC:
- 42641773
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