I’m going through another set of photographic negatives I found in my parents’ things. There’s no date on any of the strips of negatives. Sometimes I know approximately when pictures were taken by being able to date one photo on the negative strip. Other times I am not so lucky. Occasionally there is a receipt tucked in with the negatives.
There’s always the chance the receipt was accidentally tucked in the wrong envelope. Despite the potential for error, I still need to keep an image of the receipt as it can help to age the negatives. Of course, the date shipped is more closely tied to the development date and may not even be close to the date the pictures were taken. But it is better than nothing. And, assuming the receipt ties to the negatives in the same envelope, it does provide me with a taken before date.
Don’t throw out clues.
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