{"id":19682,"date":"2022-04-04T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/2022version\/copy-8-copy-2-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:50:55","slug":"copy-8-copy-2-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/?p=19682","title":{"rendered":"Skills Lesson: Dating a Photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Lesson<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Materials \u2013 Available for Download in the Downloads Tab:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A copy of the Skills Lesson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing the general time period for a photograph\u2014if not an exact year\u2014can be very useful when you\u2019re examining it for historical information. Here are a few tips that might help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Does the photograph \u201clook old\u201d? Most adults can look at a photograph and get a feeling for whether it was taken in 1880 or 1940. Students are unlikely to have this sense. So, looking at a few old photographs&#8211;seeing what format they have, what the color is like, how they are mounted, what people are wearing, and so forth&#8211;can be a good introduction to dating photographs. Most of your students will never need to be able to tell a daguerreotype from an ambrotype or a cabinet card from a carte-de-visite. But getting a feeling for what a nineteenth as opposed to twentieth-century photograph looks like is a good idea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-1024x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19726\" style=\"width:787px;height:626px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-600x477.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1.jpg 1389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nineteenth- to early twentieth-century photographs Austin\/Thompson Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Remember that NO photographs were taken before 1830, and very few before 1839.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If the photograph is a \u201csnapshot,\u201d it was taken after 1888, when Kodak came out with the first easy-to-use camera for nonprofessionals. If the snapshot is in color, it was probably taken after 1960. If the color in the photograph is good (i.e., not reddish or blueish) the photograph was probably taken in the late 1970s or later. After that, color processing became cheaper and more stable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To get more specific, look at details in the photographs. Sometimes there will be a date on the photograph itself, on the mounting of the photograph, or on the back. But if there isn\u2019t, you can look for \u201csigns of the times.\u201d Fashions are often great clues, for example. And there are many websites online that show what people were wearing in various decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-1024x811.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-1024x811.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-600x475.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2.jpg 1342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photographs from the early twentieth century through the digital era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Other dating clues include automobiles. (If there\u2019s a street with no cars but a horse and buggy, that\u2019s a good clue, too.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Researching a product in a photograph can yield a window of time or even a specific year. Cheetos, for example, were introduced in 1948. If there\u2019s a Cheetos bag in a photograph, it wasn\u2019t taken before that year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Helpful Websites<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Flickr Collections by Era<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These contributed photographs are grouped by decade, and the multitude of images provide a helpful frame of reference for your vintage photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/100_years_old\/\" target=\"_blank\">100 years old<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1900-1910\/\" target=\"_blank\">1900-1910<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1910-1920\/\" target=\"_blank\">1910-1920<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1920s\/\" target=\"_blank\">1920s<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/44309031@N00\/\" target=\"_blank\">1930s<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/36236446@N00\/\" target=\"_blank\">1940s<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/fifties\/\" target=\"_blank\">1950s<\/a>&nbsp;| <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1960-1970\/\" target=\"_blank\">1960s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Legacy Tree<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacytree.com\/blog\/date-old-family-photos\">Dating Old Photographs, Part I<\/a>: This page covers formats of photographs and introduces the idea of internal clues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacytree.com\/blog\/womens-fashion-date-old-photos\">Dating Old Photographs, Part II<\/a>: This page covers using women\u2019s clothing fashions to help date a photograph.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Downloads<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Download the following materials below: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A copy of the Skills Lesson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/dcc.newberry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SkillsLesson_DatingAPhotograph_Download-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Download the skills lesson Dating a Photograph here..\"><\/object><a 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