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| The ancients recorded details of their lives in stone or on wood. Individuals leaving families & communities for a new life usually took something to help remember those at home. They left special items or gifts so those remaining would not forget either. Anthropologists and archaeologists help us understand those artifacts and the lives of those who created them. |  |
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As carving, drawing, and painting developed, remarkable lifelike images resulted. Marvelous cameos and miniature portraits from the Middle Ages still exist. They show the great care and respect given to preserving those memories. Art historians labor to help us understand the lives and people in these beautiful and interesting creations. |
| During the earliest years of photography each picture was still an individual work of art. Only after the use of paper and positive photographic images were true copies possible. Then Carte-de'-Visite (photo calling cards slightly larger than present day business cards) and Cabinet Cards (photos about 4" x 6") became reasonably available with copies quite often given freely to family and friends. |  |
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Some folks treated these photos quite reverently and carefully, preserving them in frames, under glass etc. and would never have written on the front or even the backs as to who, why, when or where the photo was taken. Still others decided to add names or other information because it had been years since they had seen each other, to show off a wife, husband or child for the first time or just to let others know what they looked like "now". |
| It is these early photographs that represent a rich legacy of who we are today by helping us to identify with who our ancestors were in the past-starting with their names! Wouldn't it be remarkable if we knew the names of everybody in those photos? How would you ever find out who they were? TimePast™ may be able to help. |  |
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My interest in identifying photographs began over 50 years ago when I realized that some of the family photographs that I had been collecting had names, while other copies of those same photos were unidentified. The concept of TimePast™ was born years later when a cousin sent me a family album with several hundred pictures and asked "Can you identify any of these people?" |
| The techniques for matching (identifying) photos were not available until recently. With computers, the Internet and our photo data banks and resources, everything is now in place. The last required factor was the photo registration and identification process we developed over these past 20 years. TimePast™ put this all together and made the whole project possible. Up until now who would ever have imagined you could identify those photos? |  |
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