Help Date these photos

Im guessing around 1890s-early 1900s, but not sure
The ominous grandmother looks Victorian

 

Good for Halloween for it looks as if the whole family is floating.....

 

I wasn't going to put this in...but, hey.

If my mother were to see the way those two little girls are sitting, the hairbrush would be wielded, and that photo would be shredded!!!!

 

Yes....not....demur at all for then.

 

Not uncommon at all for the time. Especially in family group photos.
I have seen it a gazillion times.

 

You would know.
I now recall seeing photos of girls sitting like this...if they weren't boys dressed that way.

 

The young girl in the plaid dress appears to have at least her feet together even if her knees are not together.

 

3rd photo right hand wall
Anyone see the woman's face at 2 o'clock in the center of the white coloration?

 

How do you draw circles around something in a picture?

 

I don't know the answer to your 2nd question, Pat, but on the first one, I see it now!

 

Kinda................

 

The simplest way is to open a pic in the generic Paint program that comes in Windows.

On the tool bar click "Home" > click to highlight "Color1" > select a color that will show up on the pic > click "Shape" > select shape you want such as an oval, square, etc... > using your mouse draw/ring around the "something." While doing the above you will be sent back to the main screen after some of the selections. Just keep going back to "Home" and continue with the selections. Following is that 3rd pic with the "ghost" on the wall with a square around it and a close-up of the ghost. Very appropriate for today.

--- Susan

 

Right click on the picture above and save it to the desktop on your computer.

Go to the icon of the picture on your desktop, right click on it, go down to "Open With" on the dropdown menu, and then click on "Paint".

Paint has little paintbrush and pencil icons that you can pick to draw around things.

 

Ladybranch beat me to it!

 

As per usual!

 

Pat cc, did you implant that simply because of today's significance?

A bit spooky! Yes, after you mentioned it the first time. Seemed she had sunglasses on.

The more it is photo-shopped the dimmer it gets. Being slowly erased??????

I am relatively confident it was not graffiti. Positive it was not a reflection.

 

Another method on PCs is to use the snipping tool. I think it was introduced in either XP or Vista and I have it in Windows 7.

With the snipping tool, all you have to do is drag a rectangle around a part of the screen, which automatically puts it in the tool and puts a copy in your clipboard. It has simple tools for highlighting or drawing on the image, tool.

Since the image is in your clipboard, you can use right-click-paste to put the "clip" in your post as a jpg, or you can save it to your desktop and then upload the saved image.

I love this tool... it's made all sorts of things easier!

 

I suspect the image was the result of two shots being superimposed, either on the negative or in the printing process. Maybe created for effect... like a deceased person looking down on them?

 

On first view I assigned to the young lady in plaid the position of middle of three generations. Mom, 3 children and grandmom. If she is simply an older sibling to the two boys and and one girl, maybe it is the middle generation looking upon them. Rather neat if planned that way. A bit not neat if unplanned.

 

About the dating, I am pretty sure that the third photo is from the first decade of the 20th century... maybe the first half of the decade. The second photo probably is also. Older women's clothing can be hard to date because it was often worn for some years after it was in style. And we can't see her whole dress. I'm partly basing the date of the second photo on the card. It seems that most of the ones I've seen with embossed letters the same color as a darker card are from the early 20th. But it could be late 19th.

I really can't tell about the date of the first photo. Does the card have any embossed lettering or design? Or is is just a plain card?