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Change of Track

Posted by admin on December 21st, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

Well, since there were no paid subscriptions in the first six months of this blog, I have decided a change of track is in order. The subject of this blog will no longer be in-depth studies of characteristics useful for dating old photos, but instead I will write in general terms about old photographs. Of […]

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Preponderance of Evidence

Posted by admin on August 3rd, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

In this post we are going to digress a bit from our usual technique of examining a single element found in photographs, and describing its frequency and temporal distribution, to discuss briefly our methodology. To fully understand the relevance of our observations, you need to understand how we arrived at the conclusions we draw from […]

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Introduction

Posted by admin on July 11th, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

Welcome to When Was That? the blog that asks … duh … When was that? This site is about dating photographs — no, not dinner and a movie type dates, I mean the year. Sometimes the month. Sometimes even the day.
Our prime focus is:

U.S.A. and Canada
1839-1949
Photographic Images, even when printed by photomechanical or other methods
Minutia, […]

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