Back in July of 2009, Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective, did a write-up on a “photo” I discovered of my 4th Great Grandfather, William Riley Majors. In the photo with William were his two children from his first marriage: my 3rd Great Grandfather William Andrew “Andy” Majors and his sister Martha Etta Majors.
The photo was at the house of a 2nd cousin 2 times removed in Cortez, Colorado, but she had not known who was in the photo until we met in October 2008. So we both made a fantastic discovery that day!
“Electronic files are wonderful for sharing pictures, but nothing compares with looking at the original, especially when you’re trying to determine the photographic method. One of the first questions I asked Randy was, “Can you describe the picture?”
There were two types of metal images in the first 20 years of photography. Daguerreotypes are shiny, highly reflective images that are reversed, but tintypes are on a thin sheet of iron and usually varnished. They aren’t really shiny. He said that the image was somewhat shiny, but not mirror-like. …”
Read the full article here: http://goo.gl/TftJD