The Photo Detective News
Maureen TaylorMaureen Taylor loves family photographs. All of them — from the mystery images you find in shoeboxes and albums to the pictures you snap with your digital devices.My skills live at the junction of history, genealogy and photography.
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Introducing the Glassmire Brothers
A few years ago, a librarian at the Western History/Genealogy Collection of the Denver Public Library bought a couple of pictures and sent them to me. He also mailed me a page from the 1860 Federal Census of Pennsylvania listing the fam...
On The Photo Detective Podcast--The Wreck of the Mentor:
What happens when an ordinary New Bedford whaling voyage turns into one of the most extraordinary survival stories in American maritime history? In this episode of The Photo Detective podcast, I talk with bestselling maritime historian Eric...
Polaroid Memories
Polaroid pictures are probably tucked somewhere in your twentieth-century photo collection.
The Polaroid Corporation changed photography forever when Edwin Land introduced the first commercial instant camera in 1948. Those earliest instant...
The Mystery Women in Your Family Tree
As The Photo Detective, I spend a lot of time looking at faces—trying to put names to them, dates to them, and stories behind them.
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A Master Class in Photo Identification
You pick up a family photograph.
You stare at the faces… and they stare back.
Maybe you recognize a resemblance—a nose, a smile—but you don’t know their names. No one labeled it. Or worse, someone did… and you’re not sure it’s right.
So...
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Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective ® helps clients with photo related genealogical problems. She's made appearances on The View, The Today Show, Pawn Stars, and others.
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