Windows on the Past: Identifying, Dating, and Preserving Photographs

Windows on the Past: Identifying, Dating, and Preserving Photographs - Diane VanSkiver Gagel. A useful guide to dating and caring for family photographic collections. This book opens with the identification and care of non-paper photographs such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes; and paper photographs such as carte de visites, cabinet cards, and other photographs including 20th Century photographs. Preservation through computer technology is covered. A chapter devoted to dating photographs through costumes and props is organized by decade. 2000, 5½x8½, paper, 95 pp. 101-G1620 ISBN: 0788416200