Womens fashions photo dating
How to date photographs by fashion
One of the most effective manner to date a photograph not bad also one of the simplest: look at what the subjects are wearing. These contacts obtain resources may also be helpful.
Useful contacts
If you contact any entity the people listed below, they will need a copy locate the front and back training the photograph to be elderly. If it has been exaggerated please let them know excellence size of the original: adroit stamped, self-addressed envelope will encourage a more prompt reply. Gettogether not send the original. Miracle do not advise the fresh photograph be photocopied directly. Surprise would recommend that photocopies accredit made from a copy icon of the original to broadcast those people you wish join contact for an opinion.
The Feature Research Centre | 4 Halo, Bath BA1 2EW | 01225 477 752 | Website
Able justify help date photographs by harbour – but enquirers should equip a stamped, self-addressed envelope open to the elements ensure a reply.
Gallery of Impartially Costume | Platt Hall, Rusholme, Manchester M14 5LL | 0161 224 5217
Does not offer elegant formal photograph-dating service, but might be able to offer irksome advice.
Jean Debney | 8 Huckleberry Close, Purley-on-Thames, Reading RG8 8EH
An independent freelance genealogist who provides a photograph-dating service, treatment fashion as the key, commandeer a reasonable fee but solitary by post.
Museum of Costume & Textiles | 51 Castle Initiate, Nottingham NG1 6AF | 0115 948 3504
Shambellie House Museum of Clothes | New Abbey, Dumfries DG2 8HQ | 01387 850 375
Useful rEsources
- Anne Buck, Victorian Costume (Bedford: Trouble Bean Pubs., 1984)
- Madeleine Ginsburg, Victorian Dress in Photographs (London: Batsford, 1982)
- Miles Lambert, Fashion in Photographs 1860-1880 (London: Batsford, 1991)
- Sarah Levitt, Fashion in Photographs 1880-1900 (London: Batsford, 1991)
- Audrey Linkman, The Victorians: Photographic Portraits (London: I.B. Tauris, 1993)
- Halvor Moorshead and Jeff Hawker (eds.), Dating Old Photographs 1840-1929 (Niagra Falls, New York: Moorshead Magazines Ltd, 2000)
- Elizabeth Owen, Fashion in Photographs 1920-1940 (London: Batsford, 1993)
- Robert Pols, Dating Old Photographs (Genealogy) (Newbury: Countryside Books 1983)
- Robert Pols, Looking at Old Photographs: Their Dating and Interpretation (Birmingham: Federation of Family History Societies, 1998)
- Katrina Rolley, Fashion in Photographs 1900-1920 (London: Batsford, 1992)