Subject: RE: My treasure of the day...Lara - 2006-01-28 8:07 PM
it might be easier to date by the clothing.. we have a lot of similar pictures in my family mounted on gray cardboard like material from 1915-1930.. if you take it to a photo restoration specialist they might be able to date it for you.. i'm really tempted to say late 1920's because the quality/mounting is very smilar to two or three family pictures i have in mind from 1928-1930.. however the clothing looks like it may of been earlier..
I disagree. The clothing looks to me to be considerably before the 20s, and likely considerably before the teens. High-necked long sleeved women's dresses are pre 1910, and the man's bow tie looks like pre-1900, although men's fashions are more difficult to date than women's. My guess would be 1880-1900, with pre-1910 an outside possibility.
a lot of our family photos from prior to 1915 seem to be a bit blurry, even portraits..
Depends upon quality and chance. Matthew Brady's Civil War portraits are occasionally clear and sharp.
I'd say an easier way to date this might be to trace the photographer. City Directories for Pittsburgh are available for every year post-Civil War; all you need to do is find when T.M. Rosser starts and ends in that location, and you've got a date range. Just hope that the photographer was unsuccessful; that way your date range will be short.
Here's the Carnegie Library's Pennsylvania Department; http://www.clpgh.org/locations/pennsylvania/ You can call them and hire someone for a brief geneographical study, or you can wait a month or so until I go there myself.
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