Free Lecture: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs
Friday evening 7 p.m.
October 5, 2007
Mary Ann Cofrin Hall
Room 208
University of Wisconsin- Green Bay (directions)
FREE public presentation:
“From the Present to the Past: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs”
Inherited a box of family photographs? Curious as to why you have blue eyes or curly hair? Interested in documenting your life and the lives of your family members? Photographs are time capsules documenting and providing insight into our lives and the lives of our ancestors. And, while individual images provide information about one or two people, a collection of photographs, arranged and identified, tell the story of an individual’s lifetime or the history of an entire family. In “From the Present to the Past: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs,” David Benjamin, Visual Materials Archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, provides ideas on where and how to start a family photograph collection, how to locate additional images to add to your collection, what we can learn by “reading” a photograph, and what methods to use for identifying and dating family photographs. He also provides a brief history of photography as it relates to family collections.
October 5, 2007
Mary Ann Cofrin Hall
Room 208
University of Wisconsin- Green Bay (directions)
FREE public presentation:
“From the Present to the Past: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs”
Inherited a box of family photographs? Curious as to why you have blue eyes or curly hair? Interested in documenting your life and the lives of your family members? Photographs are time capsules documenting and providing insight into our lives and the lives of our ancestors. And, while individual images provide information about one or two people, a collection of photographs, arranged and identified, tell the story of an individual’s lifetime or the history of an entire family. In “From the Present to the Past: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs,” David Benjamin, Visual Materials Archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, provides ideas on where and how to start a family photograph collection, how to locate additional images to add to your collection, what we can learn by “reading” a photograph, and what methods to use for identifying and dating family photographs. He also provides a brief history of photography as it relates to family collections.
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