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yet another dating request
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 12:47 BST (UK) »
Could you please help with dating this one

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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 21 July 09 16:13 BST (UK) »
Sally, it's too small to see. You need to make your scans bigger. Please rescan at 300dpi and scan in colour mode, thanks.
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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 10:03 BST (UK) »
China
Hope this is better.
Sally

Could the picture be cleaned up a little

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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 16:41 BST (UK) »
What a lovely, charming photo of a world gone by... wintertime, but not too cold.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much that's dateable in the photo. The men are wearing working clothes that probably didn't change much in about 60 years...the only thing is the girl's dress, and most of it isn't visible.

The oldest man looks like he's wearing a style of whiskers that came into vogue in the 1860s and remained popular for quite a while with older men. Because of this and what I can see of the girl's dress, which isn't much, I would hazard a wild guess at about 1880-1890 or so for the photo. Of course you may get other guesses.

Is there anything printed on the back? If there is, could we see a scan please?

Cheers,
China
Moore/Paterson~Montreal
Moore/Addison~New Brunswick
Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

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Jenkins~Somerset
Sellers~Hull

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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 17:23 BST (UK) »
china

thanks for your comments-unfortunately the back of the picture is blank-my guess was1858-60
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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 19:59 BST (UK) »
1858-60 is a very, very narrow window especially with such a generic-looking photo...do you know something about it that we don't?? :o ??  :)
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Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 21:09 BST (UK) »
china.
no i don't know anything but I've been comparing the bearded man with other photographs at a later date and taking into account the ages of his children-reached a conclusion -but have no idea that I'm right
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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 22 July 09 21:27 BST (UK) »
Aha...you didn't tell us you knew the subjects...in that case you know far more than we do about this photo... :P

An outdoors photo was a great rarity in that time period and you are fortunate to have this!

Cheers,
C
Moore/Paterson~Montreal
Moore/Addison~New Brunswick
Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

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Jenkins~Somerset
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Re: yet another dating request
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 23 July 09 10:37 BST (UK) »
china,
unfortunately I'm only guessing -this picture was part of a batch given to me by a cousin in law when she heard I was doing the family tree.  All I'm certain of is which side of the family these people belong.
Sally
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