[PDF] Preserving Your Family Photographs eBook

Author : Maureen Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781558705791

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Genealogists and non-genealogists alike love old photographs and many people have photo collections of their ancestors. Preserving Your Family Photographs shows them how to organize and store these photos so that future generations can also enjoy them. Readers will learn how to care for family photos, identify different types of damage, learn basic conservation techniques, buy the proper storage materials, then organize the family photo archive and safely display it for all to see. * Photo preservation and display techniques appeal to both genealogist and non-genealogist alike * the book provides instruction through the use of beautiful sample photos Maureen Taylor is the author of Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs. She is a regular contributor to Family Tree Magazine and is a former picture research coordinator and photo curator. She is a frequent lecturer at genealogical conferences and workshops across the country on the subject of photograph identification, organization and preservation. She lives in Westwood, Massachusetts.

Author : Maureen Alice Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780578048000

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Learn to preserve your precious family photographs so that friends and loved ones can enjoy them for years to come. Taylor outlines straightforward steps that add value to your home collection, using methods that conservators and photo curators use every day.

Author : Maureen Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2023-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780986353079

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Maureen A. Taylor, author of The Family Photo Detective provides all the information you need to care for your family photograph collection.She outlines in straightforward steps how to use the methods that conservators and photo curators use every day! You'll learn how to:¿Identify the types of damage already done to the photos in your collection. ¿Take care of all your photos going forward, so that damage is a thing of the past. ¿Preserve your digital images-for you and future generations. ¿Select a conservator to repair damaged photos and protect them from more deterioration. ¿Restoration you can do at home.¿Properly handle cased images such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. ¿Explore techniques to share your images. Do today what may be too late to do tomorrow. Preserve your family photographs now-and capture memories that will last a lifetime.

Author : Denise May Levenick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1440341087

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Organize and enjoy your family's memories! You've captured countless cherished family photos of babies' first steps, graduations, weddings, holidays, vacations, and priceless everyday moments on your smartphone or digital camera. Perhaps you've inherited a collection of heirloom family photographs, too. But now what? How to Archive Family Photos is a practical how-to guide for organizing your growing digital photo collection, digitizing and preserving heirloom family photos, and sharing your treasured photos. In this book, you'll find: • Simple strategies to get your photos out of a smartphone or camera and into a safe storage space • Easy methods to organize and back up your digital photos, including file-naming and tagging hints • Achievable steps to digitize and preserve heirloom family photos • Step-by-step workflows illustrating common photo organizing and digitizing scenarios • Checklists for setting up your own photo organization system • 25 photo projects to preserve, share, and enjoy your family photos Whether you have boxes full of tintypes and black-and-white photographs, an ever-growing collection of digital photos, or a combination of the two, this book will help you rescue your images from the depths of hard drives and memory cards (or from the backs of closets) so that you can organize and preserve your family photo collection for future generations.

Author : Me Ra Koh
Publisher : Amphoto Books
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0823086216

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From leading photography expert Me Ra Koh, "The Photo Mom," comes the book for parents with little to no photography experience who want to capture better portraits and photos of their families using any camera. What parent doesn’t want to capture the perfectly imperfect joy of family life through photos? From holidays and vacations to portraits and shared moments, celebrated photographer (and mom) Me Ra Koh not only helps moms and dads take better photos, but inspires them to discover photography as a way to connect with, cherish, and celebrate their family. With forty beautiful “photo recipes” anyone can follow—with any camera—preserving your family’s story has never been easier!

Author : Maureen A. Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2023-04-19
Category :
ISBN : 9780984845064

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Historical family photos are cherished heirlooms that offer a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors. But the images, and the stories behind them, often fade away as decades pass--the who, when, where, and why behind the photos are lost. In this book, photo identification expert and genealogist Maureen A. Taylor shows you how to study the clues in your old family photos to put names to faces and recapture their lost stories.

Author : Amber Richards
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Archival materials
ISBN : 9781502746337

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Learn how to take the steps to protect family photos, both the physical prints, and digital formats.

Author : Matt Paxton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0593418980

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America’s top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing. Your boxes of photos, family’s china, and even the kids' height charts aren’t just stuff; they’re attached to a lifetime of memories--and letting them go can be scary. With empathy, expertise, and humor, Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff, written in collaboration with AARP, helps you sift through years of clutter, let go of what no longer serves you, and identify the items worth keeping so that you can focus on living in the present. For over 20 years, Matt Paxton has helped people from all walks of life who want to live more simply declutter and downsize. As a featured cleaner on Hoarders and host of the Emmy-nominated Legacy List with Matt Paxton on PBS, he has identified the psychological roadblocks that most organizational experts routinely miss but that prevent so many of us from lightening our material load. Using poignant stories from the thousands of individuals and families he has worked with, Paxton brings his signature insight to a necessary task. Whether you’re tired of living with clutter, making space for a loved one, or moving to a smaller home or retirement community, this book is for you. Paxton’s unique, step-by-step process gives you the tools you need to get the job done.