Dating photographs can be difficult. If you have an idea of when a photograph was taken, indicate how you arrived at that date. Was it because the photograph was in an album and other items on the same page had dates written on them or were able to be dated easily based on events in the photographs? Was it because someone wrote the date on the photograph? Do you know whose handwriting that was? If you are using a printed date on the photograph from the facility that printed the photograph, remember that date is the date of printing–not when it was taken. If the date can be estimated by physical items in the photograph (ie.a car), indicate how you determined the date of that physical item. If […]
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