This will give you an idea as to the time of year. Take note of blooming flowers or bare trees. That will usually help you find the year, if not the month and day too. If the photo shows a public event (Ind圜ar race, State Fair, concert), google the names of the events then look for logos that match yours.
These are good details to add to your family timeline. They may not give you a specific date, but they may help your general chronology. Pay attention to details like bangs (Suzie got bangs in 3 rd grade so photos with the bangs are probably 3 rd or 4 thgrade) or braces. Researching these gentlemen’s clothing and hats could give you a clue to the photo’s date. The photo was obviously from the 1940s but the developing stamp on the back said May 2015. I have had clients reprint an old scan which then got mixed back into their print collection. One obvious example would be a Christmas photo dated January 1952 but was probably taken during Christmas of 1951. A word of caution – machine printed dates on photos are the date the print was developed, not the date the photo was taken. In some cases, a developing date is printed on the back or in the border on the front. If you are really lucky someone has written down identifying information (people, place, event, date). Congratulations, you have just won the photo detective jackpot! If you get lucky, the back of the photo can give clues to location or date. Here are some of photo detective tools that the APPO experts use on a regular basis.
Books or websites about fashion, hairstyles, photo types (Check out the selection offered by Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective.).
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Do you have a pile of old photos and can’t quite figure out when a certain picture was taken? Anyone who tries to date and organize photos has had this dilemma, whether you are a do-it-yourselfer or a professional photo organizer.