Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social HistoryKatherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your family's saga. Book jacket. |
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... albums . I have known several people who , when they saw a famous person in the midst of a family album , asked me if I thought they could really be related to General Grant , Robert E. Lee , or General Tom Thumb , P.T. Barnum's circus ...
... albums . I have known several people who , when they saw a famous person in the midst of a family album , asked me if I thought they could really be related to General Grant , Robert E. Lee , or General Tom Thumb , P.T. Barnum's circus ...
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... albums . were until we had them safely at home . The three albums were of the Victorian style : heavy cardstock pages with slots for cabinet cards and cartes de visite inside velvet and leather covers . Here were some of the earliest ...
... albums . were until we had them safely at home . The three albums were of the Victorian style : heavy cardstock pages with slots for cabinet cards and cartes de visite inside velvet and leather covers . Here were some of the earliest ...
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... albums to do so . If you have a carefully captioned album , you will have saved the images without dismantling the book . You could even photograph the pictures with the captions as part of the new photographs . Otherwise , I would ...
... albums to do so . If you have a carefully captioned album , you will have saved the images without dismantling the book . You could even photograph the pictures with the captions as part of the new photographs . Otherwise , I would ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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