{"id":15170,"date":"2022-05-06T07:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15170"},"modified":"2022-05-06T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:21:13","slug":"pictures-of-nothing-can-mean-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/pictures-of-nothing-can-mean-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of Nothing Can Mean Something"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few years ago, I took pictures of a documents in several court case files at the Library of Virginia. The various briefs, filings, affidavits, etc. were of varying lengths. Images were made of each entire document. I photographed them consistently as best I could, the &#8220;cover,&#8221; the individual pages, any blank pages, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The images could be sorted based upon when they were taken and that was helpful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/photo-blank-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/photo-blank-image.jpg 670w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/photo-blank-image-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But because the documents are of inconsistent length it can occasionally be easy to confuse them. It dawned on me what I should have done when I finished photographing a document: taken a picture of the blank table or a blank piece of paper&#8211;anything to indicate a break between documents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I took pictures of a documents in several court case files at the Library of Virginia. The various briefs, filings, affidavits, etc. were of varying lengths. Images were made of each entire document. I photographed them consistently as best I could, the &#8220;cover,&#8221; the individual pages, any blank pages, etc. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}