What is the Age of this Photograph
 The photos below and the menu on left are meant to give you some examples of
How to Find out How to Date Old photographs
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Can you assess the age of this picture?Do you know who the people are? Click the photo to find out how I was able to do date it to 1859 and how I think its my grandfather. The back ground of this page and most of my web is the back of the above photo. It is a Cabinet Card - a very think card about 1/32 of inch 6 1/2 times 4 1/4 inches |
A 1907 picture which caused me confusion And others I would like to understand |
An historic Charles Winter Daguerreotype from Switzerland looks like my great great grandfather William Eagle a painter collected it - perhaps to make a painted copy |
Old Photo on Glass -
Ambrotype - possibly 1858 |
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Following are some wonderful historic photos that cousins have sent me |
Cabinet card from Wagga Wagga NSW dated to 1888
1907 taken by Cyril himself What a fashionable young man was wearing in Edwardian times
from Photos of Matilda Lankshear and her friends the Jacobs NSW |
Julie's Historic Australian Photographs John LANKSHEAR COOMA - Australia Photos of daughters of John Lankshear - Ashfield NSW
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1901 Edith Blanche Lankshear marriage Charles Miller and also some from 1929 |
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A different sort of dating working out house numbers and which house is it now 1880s Shakespeare Rd and Percy Terrace Brixton - home to Thomas Lankshear and Henry Carpenter |
Caroline Marsh (nee Lankshear) |
Susan Lankshear born 1843
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Ann Eagle born 1855 with husband John PEAT - this around 1910 and another of Ann in 1932 |
1912 Arthur LANKSHEAR - Home Child to Canada Arthur was an enormous mystery but 2009 we know more about his background. |
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Gerry Lankshear (Ron's Cousin) and family in Canada an album |
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Cousins please send me scans of historic images ...Thank You...Ron
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