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E.O. and Betty Templeton Genealogy Fair: AFTERNOON SESSION: A DIY Guide to Dating and Identifying Your Photographic Treasures, Frances O. Robb Online

Come and learn how to identify and date your historic family photographs!

Frances Osborn Robb, a historian of southern photography, is the author of Shot in Alabama. A History of Photography 1839-1941 (University of Alabama Press, 2017), and is writing a book about A. C. Oxford, who grew up in Mississippi, fought in the Civil War with General Joseph Wheeler, and became Birmingham's first resident photographer in the 1870s. Robb holds graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina and Yale University and has made scores of presentations to academics and the general public. The presentation will cover the basics of dating photographs and identifying their subjects.

Date:
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Time:
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
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Categories:
  Front Page Event     Research Skills  
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Event Organizer

Jennifer McGillan