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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: davidwells on Monday 25 May 09 15:35 BST (UK)
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Can anyone help with the dating of these two family photos, with of course nothing writen on the back!!
The lady on her own has printed on the bottom 'Alfred Rogers in Mount Pleasent House, Backup, Yorkshire.'
The other family has nothing on it!!
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Are these two ladies the same person, they look very similar especially around the mouth maybe they are mother and daughter! What does anyone else think.
It must be wonderful to have such lovely photos of family I have very few.
Kind regards Susan
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Forgot to add what lovely looking children they are.
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Father's genes has produced some delicious looking children ;D
Mother is quite plain by comparison!!
I think they are probably mother and daughter and the photo of the old woman taken some years previously.
Jim'll know ;D
Mark :)
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Hi davidwells,
Welcome to Rootschat, what lovely pictures these are!
I was struck by the likeness of the girl in the 2nd picture to her father [rh side], those eyebrows are unmistakable as are the eyes!
Where are Jim and China when you need them ???
Rabbit B ;D
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Hi David- welcome to Rootschat.. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Alfred Roberts appears to be a busy local photographer so probably is not going to help with the identity of the people unfortunately. There are a few of his more interesting photos at the National Archive in Kew where he registered some photos for copyright.... see here...
http://www.rootschat.com/links/06eb/
The registration dates range from 1884-1894 so perhaps this gives a clue as to the rough date for the picture of the old lady.... ?
Milly ;D ;D
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Hello David & welcome to RC
For dating purposes it's advised to show all of the card plus back as these
often have additional clues.The 2nd. is the easier to date as all the styles
reflect a date of around 1905-08.A lovely picture.
As an older woman the 1st. is harder to date as they tended not to follow fashion,
however from what little I can see of the card stock I would suggest 1890's but would
prefer to see all of it.
jim
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Hello David & welcome to RC
For dating purposes it's advised to show all of the card plus back as these
often have additional clues.The 2nd. is the easier to date as all the styles
reflect a date of around 1905-08.A lovely picture.
As an older woman the 1st. is harder to date as they tended not to follow fashion,
however from what little I can see of the card stock I would suggest 1890's but would
prefer to see all of it.
jim
Hi Jim,
I knew that you would have the answer, glad to see you have arrived, I wasn't sure about this you see!
I would rather leave it to you as the expert!.
So sorry millymcb,
I did not mean to ignore you, I haven't had time to look at your site yet!
Rabbit B ;D
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Hi Rabbit ;D
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Thanks everbody you have been a great help with the dating. I have attached the old woman pic again Jim, as you asked in it's entirety, the back is just plain black like the border on the front. It's a thick card about 1mm thick. This seems to be a great site for family history, glad we have found it.
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Hi Rabbit ;D
Morning Milly,
I had a look at your site which was of course the National Archives. Brilliant place have you been there?
We had a day there with a friend not long ago and got all sorts of information. Really enjoyable day it was
Rabbit B ;D
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OK.The lady is dressed in an 1880's style but the mount is 1890's.
The quality of the print I would expect to be clearer than this for 1890's,
there is blurring of the backdrop and the general appearance is quite poor.
This could be an 1890's reprint of an 1880's photo.
jim
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Hi Rabbit - I have the good fortune to be only about half an hour drive from the National Archive so have been quite often. A fabulous place and well worth visiting ;D ;D
Milly
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Thanks Jim all we have to do now is find who she was!!!!
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Hi Rabbit - I have the good fortune to be only about half an hour drive from the National Archive so have been quite often. A fabulous place and well worth visiting ;D ;D
Milly
Wow Milly,
That is so lucky, I so want to go again, but I hate the M4 and it is a real trek from where I am!
But we will be going again fairly soon I hope ;)
Rabbit B ;D
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Bacup is in Lancashire, by the way, not Yorkshire, though it's not all that far from the Yorkshire border, I must admit. Does this help with identifying the lady at all?
There is a mention of Alfred Rogers, also Mount Pleasant Wesleyan School on the National Archives site
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=124-1534&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1
If you Google CEMSEARCH-uk, you will find that there is a transcription of the burials in the Mount Pleasant Wesleyan Methodist Churchyard. Maybe you will find a familar name there.