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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... Cartes de visite and cabinet cards were images glued to heavy cardstock be- cause the paper was thin and would curl . Cartes de visite were small and intended for use as visiting cards . Many people gave them away and left them in ...
... Cartes de visite and cabinet cards were images glued to heavy cardstock be- cause the paper was thin and would curl . Cartes de visite were small and intended for use as visiting cards . Many people gave them away and left them in ...
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... cartes de visite . There is one happy detail about cartes de visite . If you find some that seem to have postage stamps on the back , read the stamps closely . They usually picture George Washington and say " U.S. Inter . Rev , " " Two ...
... cartes de visite . There is one happy detail about cartes de visite . If you find some that seem to have postage stamps on the back , read the stamps closely . They usually picture George Washington and say " U.S. Inter . Rev , " " Two ...
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... cartes de visite inside velvet and leather covers . Here were some of the earliest photographs of the post- Civil War generation we had ever seen , including many of which we had no other copies . The albums rubbed a little in shipping ...
... cartes de visite inside velvet and leather covers . Here were some of the earliest photographs of the post- Civil War generation we had ever seen , including many of which we had no other copies . The albums rubbed a little in shipping ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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