WRITTEN BY: LEON H It’s not unusual to find handwriting on photos when looking through your family memories at home. Notes describing people in the photo and when it was taken are commonly found on the back side of photographs …
IDENTIFYING AGE OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS Identifying the age of the old photographs can be done by examining the following characteristics of the photo: the color of the borders, the thickness and the style of the photo paper, the type of …
When you’re digging through old boxes of photos and albums, the first thing on your mind is not going to be the difference between a full page scan and an individual crop. You’re going to be wondering if it’s even …
At EverPresent, we spend all day looking at amateur and professional child photography. Whether we’re digitizing a family collection or de-duplicating a parent’s digital library – we see some amazing kid photos. We’re also a team composed of artists, photographers, …
Vintage scrapbooks are the original social media. In the 1940s, young people were curating and captioning their photos in albums. They used these photo books to document and share their lives with the world. Around the same time, many women …
We all have the plastic sleeves of 35mm negatives stuffed in the back of our photo envelopes, falling out of albums and loose in our photo boxes. Every time we see them we ask ourselves, “Do I even need these?” …
It’s now harder than ever to find a place that can still develop film. What do you do when you find a stash of 35mm film rolls in your downsizing parents’ photos? Do you shoot digital photos now, but want …
You know the ones we mean. The vintage prints of your family striking a stoic pose. The crumbling, yellowed portraits of your great-great-someone sporting their Sunday best. These old pictures tell the story of who and where you come from, …
Photo albums and antique scrapbooks are both priceless and fragile. They bring the past to the present with items like old photos, newspaper clippings, and locks of hair. Albums tell us about the people who made them and the world …
The hallmark of vacations before the advent of digital photos was the collection of slides that brought the vacation back to life. Before we could share our photos using Google Drive, Dropbox or iCloud, we had slideshows where everyone gathered …
