Using the clues explained in this book, you can learn a surprising amount about your ancestors by studying their portraits. This book is particularly useful to genealogists, social and personal historians, costume designers and hairstylists.

Fashionable Folks Hairstyles 1840-1900

History

Taylor, Maureen A.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Picture Perfect Press

Maureen A. Taylor, author of Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs, provides all the information you need to care for your family photograph collection. She outlines in straightforward steps how to add value to your home collection by using the methods that conservators and photo curators use every day! You'll learn how to: * Identify the types of damage already done to the photos in your collection. * Take care of all your photos going forward, so that damage is a thing of the past. * Preserve your digital images - for you and future generations. * Select a conservator to repair damaged photos and protect them from more deterioration. * Select a restoration expert to restore damaged photos using airbrushing, digital manipulation, or photographic enhancements. * Create a stunning scrapbook that will endure, using archival quality guidelines. * Properly handle cased images such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. * Explore techniques to share your images. * Take advantage of low-cost alternatives to traditional photo preservation techniques.

Preserving Your Family Photographs

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective, turns her attention to portraits and pictures taken in the Civil War era to help you find wartime stories in your family photo collection. These images, whether it’s a man in uniform or a woman posing with her children, tell the story of your family’s involvement in a critical period of history.   If you’re not sure if your photo dates from that timeframe, this book will help you determine when it was taken.

Finding the Civil War in Your Family Album

Americas

Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective explores the history of toques and top hats, bowlers, and bonnets to add another dimension to understanding your family photographs Fanciful, frilly, and fascinating, women’s hats made a fashion statement. There were hundreds of choices available each season. And they came with names like Leghorns, Gainsborough’s, poke bonnets, and wide-awakes. Home factories produced trim and hats for milliners, while enterprising women raised small birds destined to be stuffed for hat adornments. Men’s hats could be utilitarian. Abraham Lincoln and the men of his generation often carried papers in their stove pipe hats. Their desire for beaver hats led the animal to the brink of extinction. Using the clues in this book, you’ll learn interesting facts about your ancestors by studying their photographs and the hats they wore for portraits.

Fashionable Folks: Bonnets and Hats, 1840-1900

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Historical family photos are cherished heirlooms that offer a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors. But the images, and the stories behind them, often fade away as decades pass--the who, when, where, and why behind the photos are lost. In this book, photo identification expert and genealogist Maureen A. Taylor shows you how to study the clues in your old family photos to put names to faces and recapture their lost stories.

Family Photo Detective: Learn how to find Genealogy Clues in old photos and solve Family Photo Mysteries

Is there anyone who hasn’t had a bad hair day or obsessed about the right hairdo for a special event? Probably not, and this obsession is far from a modern phenomenon. Fussing over our hair is one of the things that links us to our ancestors. Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective, has studied the many fascinating details in nineteenth-century pictures. Early portraits tell us so much about the society, the times, the trends, and the individuals they feature. And, it’s often the hair that stands out. Short, long, curled, and coiffed manes were as trendy as the dresses and suits worn in each period. Every fashion era had its distinctive hairstyle whether functional or fanciful. Using the clues explained in this book, you can learn a surprising amount about your ancestors by studying their portraits. How they wore their locks and their facial hair for the photographer, will tell you a lot about them. Read “the clues” to discover: When those pictures were taken, how old the subjects were at the time, and how wealthy they were. Your ancestors’ fashion sense—were these people trendy or conservative? Which nineteenth-century style mavens they admired. Which hairstyles, moustaches, and beards are still in vogue?

Hairstyles 1840-1900

Searching for Family History Photos:: How to Get Them Now

Taylor, Maureen

Reference

Do you have a pile of old family photographs collection dust that you don't know what to do with? Do you want to preserve the pictures in an organized manner, but don't know how? Maureen Taylor, "The Photo Detective" and author of Preserving Your Family Photographs and Family Photo Detective explains the process of organizing and storing your photos. This book will help you: *Develop a workflow to accomplish the task of organizing your images *Choose storage methods and tools *Be a smart consumer for photo organizing solutions *Deal with photo overload *Manage your collection

Photo Organizing Practices: Daguerreotypes to Digital

Fanciful, frilly, and fascinating women's hats made a fashion statement. There were hundreds of choices available each season. Men's hats could be utilitarian. This coloring book will change the way you view your old family photos. *You'll learn about the colors popular for nineteenth century hats and head wear for men, women and children. *Color pencil suggestions were matched to those colors seen in actual nineteenth century engravings.

Victorian Hats: A Coloring Book

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