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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs: A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians
Jayne Shrimpton
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Description for Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs: A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians
Paperback. A comprehensive guide to dating and interpreting family photographs, the book uses as examples over 150 previously unpublished images. Written by one of the Britain's leading photograph historians and based on years of research into historical photographic records. Num Pages: 240 pages, 150 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTG; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 490.
Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past and into the lives of the individuals who are portrayed in them. Almost every family and local historian works with photographs, but often the fascinating historical and personal information that can be gained from them is not fully understood. They are one of the most vivid and memorable ways into the past. This concise but comprehensive ... Read more
Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past and into the lives of the individuals who are portrayed in them. Almost every family and local historian works with photographs, but often the fascinating historical and personal information that can be gained from them is not fully understood. They are one of the most vivid and memorable ways into the past. This concise but comprehensive ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
491g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781592809
SKU
V9781781592809
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Ref
99-3
About Jayne Shrimpton
Jayne Shrimpton is a professional dress historian, portrait specialist and 'photo detective'. She has post-graduate academic qualifications from the Courtauld Institute of Art and work experience as a former curator in the Heinz Archive and Library at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She works mainly in the family history arena, conducting private photograph work, lecturing widely and writing regular ... Read more
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