Family Roots Publishing Company has put together a bundle of the three popular Kwikguides used to date, identify, and get lots of useful historical information on your old photos – making them available at a discounted price with one low shipping fee. The bundle includes:
19th Century Card Photos KwikGuide: A: Step-by-Step Guide to Identifying and Dating Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Cards; by Gary W. Clark; 2013; ISBN: 978-0-9835785-5-0; 8.5×11; Soft cover – perfect bound; full color; 92 pp; ISBN #:9780983578550; Item #GC06
19th Century Card Photos KwikGuide presents a fun, interesting and easy-to-follow set of clues that guides genealogists, historians, and other researchers through the task of dating their card photographs from the 1800s. With over 200 high quality documented photographs included as examples for every clue, the researcher can accurately determine most photograph dates within two to six years.
This book illustrates photographic technology changes that occurred frequently throughout the 19th century. These changes are verified, tracked, and dated, providing a time line of identifiable characteristics. Traditional reviews of style and fashion are also included, many with new insight.
Informative chapters include:
- History of Photographs
- Cartes de visite
- Cabinet Cards
- Studio Props
- Unique Formats
- 20th Century Photographs
- and more.
Like his other books, Clark provides a brief history to the time and place these image types were in use, you learn about and how to date images, and you get a detailed coverage of the various image types. Topics include:
- Daguerreotype Case Styles
- Ambrotype Glass Types
- Cased Tintype Images
- Paper Sleeves and Mounts
- Background and Studio Props
- Fashion and Style
Above all other types of images, these reflect the true origins of commercial photography. These images are becoming increasingly rare with age; yet, many can still find photos of ancestors locked away in attics, basements and boxes the world over. These images are treasures for both their increase rarity and for their personal value to the family historian.
Learning to identify and date card photos may just be the skill you need to bringing your ancestors to life, and into your life.
Real Photo Postcards KwikGuide, a Guide to Identifying and dating Real Photo Postcards of the 20th Century; by Gary W. Clark; 96 pp; Softcover; Published: 2013; 8.5×11; ISBN: 9780983578581; Item # GC07
The only book for genealogists and historians that focuses on dating Real Photo Postcards or RPPCs as they are frequently called. Find the information you need to establish a close date of when the postcard was made.
Real Photo Postcards KwikGuide is a fun guide to the popular postcards in the early 20th century. This guide is a required reading for genealogists, family historians, postcard collectors, and vintage photograph enthusiasts. The KwikGuide presents a short history of all postcards and then covers Real Photo Postcards in detail, including how to recognize and date them.
Dating postcards is important to understanding who the subjects in the picture may be. For collectors, determining the date of a photograph may help understand the rarity and value of a postcard. Typical clues for dating postcards such as stamps, stamp boxes, and card format are illustrated with fine images from the PhotoTree.com collection.
Informative chapters include:
- History of Postcards
- Stamps and Stamp Boxes
- Postcard Size and Formats
- Postcard Galleries
- Fashion and Style
- The Demise of Photo Postcards
- . . . and more.
A companion website allows the reader to view high resolution, color images found in the Real Photo Postcards KwikGuide.
About the Author
Gary Clark is a professional photographer, restorer, and genealogist who has merged these skills with his passion for collecting photographs. His 30 years of experience in digital imaging brings a unique and thorough understanding of photograph problems and how to solve them. Clark introduced PhotoTree.com to genealogists and collectors in 2000, and he continually expands the free information with a gallery of over 1,000 images, weekly case studies, and historical information about 19th century photographs.
Purchase this bundle today for 15% off, only $38.97 (plus $5.50 p&h).
