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These images are from a collection of my Grandad's that we found when going through his things.
Ok, so this is tagged as "Great Grandad Ball" which would make this guy my great, great Grandfather on my grandma's side of the family. Who used to deliver coal with his horse and cart.
Again, not entirely sure when this was taken..
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This reminds me, I need to scan and upload the crap load of vintage and antique photos I collected from inheriting my great aunt's house. I had 92 years worth of memories, drawers of 50 + year old receipts as she was a tad paranoid and saved everything (literally, she had a 1939 Sears & Roebuck receipt from having her heater serviced!!), and knick knacks to go through. Some of the photos are classic Americana (little kids with ponies dressed like Will Rogers) and others are antique daguerreotypes from the 1870s or so.
I know you don't allow retouching of your model stock, and with good reason as you clearly don't need it, but how do you feel about restoration of antique photos? I personally do that as a side job and always am on the lookout for photos to practice on.
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wow that's a hell of a lot of receipts!
my grandad had a receipt from the hotel from his honeymoon, but i think that was more sentimental than anything.
ooh excellent
you know, i was thinking about that when i was uploading the images. do i allow retouches on just these few, because thats a legitimate reason? but then i thought, nah, best not to complicate things with "you can use these ones for retouches, not the others" cause i know that would just come back to bite me in the arse.
tell you what, if you want to use the old photographs for practice for retouches, You and and you only. but you have to add clearly in the description that i've given you a one-off permission to do this for those photos only.
or something along those lines.
all this abuse of my stock has made me boring and paranoid.
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It's amazing you can see a piece of your family you had no chance to meet naturally. You can almost hear them speak and see them move.
Thanks for sharing these
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yeah its always nice looking back through old pictures.
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I wish I had pictures from that way back.
The Iraqi side of my family didn't bother to take photos, and the Hungarian side was pretty much obliterated in WW2, so if there were any pictures, they were probably destroyed back then.
You're very lucky to have such a great piece of history for you to take a journey through. That's why I really appreciate you sharing it with us
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ah that's a shame..
I only have photos from my Mum's side of the family. since I don't know my father, well... technically, since he disappeared after they divorced, I've only ever met my Nana, (who died when i was 7) Grandad Tom (who I really need to go and see at some point soon.) and a cousin on that side called Joanne, who is a complete chav and abit of an idiot. last time i met her she was freaking out because she had ironed her hair instead of straightening it and it had ruined it.. -__-
ANYWAY. so all this old photos are of the Johnsons (my mum's side of the family, the surname Jones and my haircolour and nose is pretty much the only thing i got from my dad :S) and the Sawyers, which is my Grandma's family (who are really strange.)
We only really have so many because my Grandad Hugh, who died, well a year on today actually... was into his geneology and traced our family tree. We found some old marriage certificates and birth records in his room when we were going through his things a couple months back. I thought about those today, thought they might make interesting stock.. dunno if there'll be legal implications though.. dunno if there would be or not. :S
im sorry about that.. there might still be some somewhere. they come out of unexpected places. these were found at the very back of my grandad's wardrobe after all. who knows what we'll find when we have to sell that house and have to go into the attic!
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Marriage certificates, though very interesting in themselves, may be a bit personal for stock and the public domain IMO. And, as you've said, may have legal implications.
As for the rest, my aunt said something once about each generation of every family having a historian to take care of the family's long-term memory. Maybe that's your calling, to be like your Grandad and record your family's history for future generations
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eh, i don't have the patience nor the time to do that. plus i have a hard time remembering relatives who are alive now, like, who is related to me and how.
there's a couple who comes into where I work. I know I'm related to them. and I think it's my great Uncle Bill and Aunt Marg. But I could be wrong on that (aka, the guy is my Grandma's brother)... but recognising them? i am terrible with faces. I know them when they come up and speak to me. but i only ever see them like, once every blue moon.. im not very close with them.
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Simplest thing to do is ask them. Wouldn't it be funny to realise they don't know your relations to them either?
But yeah, I was just suggesting the whole thing because you seemed facinated with with the photos. If you don't have the time, or patience, I bet you can cohorse your chav cousin to do that for you
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