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What year is this couple from ?

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  • 20-11-2008 11:50pm
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    iMax
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    I'm going through some old family photos & this one was in my Grandmother's box of things. She would have been 94 this year so I'm guessing this is maybe her parents although my dad is pretty sure that it's not.

    Can anyone date it on the clothing ? I put it in this forum because they were from the north inner city.


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    admiralofthefleet
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    i would say 1880's


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    spurious
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    Is there a photographer's stamp on the back of the photo?


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    00112984
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    Aww- the woman is pregnant! Might that help you date it if it was your grandmother's aunt or anything?


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    brianthebard
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    Ooooh, this game is fun. Wonder were carnations on the lapel in during a particular year? I would've said turn of the century, before independence.


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    iMax
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    There's no stamp or any indication at all.

    Hadn't thought of an aunt. She looks a little old to be pregnant. I was thinking that maybe it was a post (several) baby stomach.

    My great grandmother died when my grandmother was ten. I've seen pictures of her dad & this isn't him.

    1880s would put it around the era of her parents all right but it's not quite fitting, I'm thinking maybe it's her grandparents, making it my great great grandparents (or rather one set of them... that's kinda cool.


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    Esel
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    The photographer often supplied clothes for photos back in those days.

    'A little old to be pregnant'? I'll say! 0112984, get your eyes tested! :D

    Not your ornery onager



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    Fajitas!
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    Right, well, going on the process I assume was used, it was the second half of the 1800's, and past 1878.

    I doubt it's her parents, as that'd leave a bit of a gap as far as technology, lighting, pose and fashion are concerned (if she were 94 this year), though I guess that depends on where they're from too - Anything stamped onto the back of the print? Even a trace?


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    jjgoo
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    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    i would say 1880's

    I would go with this. because that is my parents. :D


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    iMax
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    If it is the 1880s then that would make them Alexander & Annie Oakes, my great great grandparents - I already know this from previous research ("Oakes" - what a great name, wish we kept it).


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