Is anybody in this group good at dating pictures in the 1890-1910
range from clothing?
I was just sent a picture of two children that I would like to place
as precisely as possible in time. The cousin who sent it to me was
told the girl in the picture is her grandmother, but neither of us
thinks this identification is correct. However, we don't know who it
is, and are both searching our family files for a pair of children,
probably brother and sister, that it might be. Getting a better fix
on the date would help a lot. It's a studio portrait, and both
children are dressed in their Sunday best, which could provide some
good fashion clues if we knew how to interpret them.
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Elizabeth Harris
ncgen(a)mindspring.com
Personal genealogy webpage:
http://www.duke.edu/web/chlamy
Winston-Salem NC area genealogy:
http://www.fmoran.com/
HOLDER DNA project:
http://www.mindspring.com/~holderdna/