Dating Old Photographs - Appeal for Contributions

Please Note Updated Guidelines for Sending Photos Below*

In August 2000, we printed 10,000 copies of Family Chronicle's book Dating Old Photographs - our stocks are now down to the last few hundred. We could reprint the book as it is but instead have decided to produce an improved second edition.

The new edition will feature a comprehensive explanation about how to use the published pictures, as well as a history of the photographic processes, information on early copying, changes in how people thought about photographs and how they dressed for the occasion.

As with the first edition, we are appealing to Family Chronicle readers for help and input. We are looking for photographs with known dates. Please do not submit photographs without a known date (although plus or minus two years is acceptable).

We are also looking for unusual photographs even if the date is not known. For example photographs showing people wearing national costumes, photographs which have been hand colored or photographs in which the clothing seems to have been drawn onto the image later.

We will send two copies of the book, when it is published, to everyone whose pictures are used. Copies of the book will be kept in the National Archives of the US and Canada and microfilmed copies are stored in other archives, so this is as sure a way as possible to ensure that your images are securely archived forever.

* How to submit:
E-mail: We much prefer e-mail: please send to photos@familychronicle.com.
• Images should be scanned at no less than 200 dots per inch (and no more than 300 dpi) and they should be sent as JPEG images at medium compression if possible (this is a compressed format which most graphics programs allow you to save in).
• PLEASE LIMIT YOUR E-MAIL TO ONE PHOTO PER MESSAGE AND ATTACHMENTS LESS THAN 1 MEGABYTE IN SIZE IF POSSIBLE. We having been receiving many messages with multiple attachments that exceed our mail message size limit. As such our mailbox is filling up faster than we expected and sometimes it gets overloaded. Use more than one message if necessary
• Please give your files unique names.
• Please tell us the date of the photograph, the names of the people in it (if known) and your name.
• Please give us your address - this is so that we may send copies when the book is published.

Regular Mail: Please do NOT send originals.
• Copies may be made photographically or made on a COLOR photocopier even when the original is black-and-white. Regular black-and-white photocopies are not useable.
• On any spare white space adjacent to the image or on the reverse, please tell us the date of the photograph, the names of the people in it (if known) and your name.
• Please give us your address - this is so that we may send copies when the book is published.
• Please mail to our Canadian address: Family Chronicle, Dating Old Photographs, 505 Consumers Road, Suite 500, Toronto, ON M2J 4V8, Canada.

Please try to send information before 31 October 2003, but we have not yet set any publication date.

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