Preserving Your Family Photographs: How to Organize, Present, and Restore Your Precious Family ImagesGenealogists and non-genealogists alike love old photographs and many people have photo collections of their ancestors. Preserving Your Family Photographs shows them how to organize and store these photos so that future generations can also enjoy them. Readers will learn how to care for family photos, identify different types of damage, learn basic conservation techniques, buy the proper storage materials, then organize the family photo archive and safely display it for all to see. * Photo preservation and display techniques appeal to both genealogist and non-genealogist alike * the book provides instruction through the use of beautiful sample photos Maureen Taylor is the author of Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs. She is a regular contributor to Family Tree Magazine and is a former picture research coordinator and photo curator. She is a frequent lecturer at genealogical conferences and workshops across the country on the subject of photograph identification, organization and preservation. She lives in Westwood, Massachusetts. |
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... Carte de Visite Albums The first albums designed specifically to hold photographs were imported into the United States in 1860. A year later , an American produced an album that provided a space for a carte de visite and a space for an ...
... Carte de Visite Albums The first albums designed specifically to hold photographs were imported into the United States in 1860. A year later , an American produced an album that provided a space for a carte de visite and a space for an ...
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... CARTE DE VISITE ALBUMS Type Family albums Celebrity albums Travel albums Subject albums Dates Popular 1862-1905 1862-1880 1862-1885 1862- ? Tintype Albums The standard sizes of tintypes allowed them to be displayed in carte de visite ...
... CARTE DE VISITE ALBUMS Type Family albums Celebrity albums Travel albums Subject albums Dates Popular 1862-1905 1862-1880 1862-1885 1862- ? Tintype Albums The standard sizes of tintypes allowed them to be displayed in carte de visite ...
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... carte de visite . Cartes de visite are brought to America . The carte de visite is mentioned in an ad in Frank Leslie's Illus- trated Weekly by S.A. Holmes . • First aerial photograph is taken in Boston . Tintype is used as a campaign ...
... carte de visite . Cartes de visite are brought to America . The carte de visite is mentioned in an ad in Frank Leslie's Illus- trated Weekly by S.A. Holmes . • First aerial photograph is taken in Boston . Tintype is used as a campaign ...
Contents
Stories Worth Saving | 5 |
The Preservation Facts | 18 |
Cased Images Daguerreotypes Ambrotypes and Tintypes | 41 |
Copyright | |
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abrasion acid airbrushing ambrotype Appendix archival Audio tape number basic carte de visite CHECKLIST chemicals clean collodion color photographs color prints copy Creating Keepsakes cyanotype daguerreotype deterioration digital images Digital Photography digital restoration documents E-mail eeeeee Notes Emison emulsion exposure fading family collection family history family members family photo family photographs film frame glass negatives graphs handling Historical Society identify individuals Information Science Internet Kodak Library and Information lignin lignin-free look Magazine magnetic albums Nord-Trondelag organize P.O. Box paper prints Paul Messier Phone photographic conservation photographic materials photographic process pieces plastic plate Polaroid polypropylene portrait preservation Professional Photographers programs protect purchase scanner Scanning School of Library scrapbook sleeves slides staining storage suppliers surface techniques temperature and humidity tintype tion types of damage University Workshops School