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<p>[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 3208960, member: 13430"]That was a great story!</p><p>It's interesting how things like that get separated, and then, surprisingly, pop up and their story is reconnected. I was researching a large group of photos handed down in my wife's family, taken between 1900 and 1920. Almost all had nothing written on them, few family recollections about them, and were from different parts of the country. A large chunk looked like Montana/Wyoming/Colorado. One had the word Montana written on it, but I had no idea where in Montana, and why this Pennsylvania family had them. While researching, I stumbled on a photo on the Park Service website for the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, and on the page was the same image as one of the photos I had. I was floored, as these were photos taken by my wife's relatives. Looking some more, I found another old photo they had that was the same. After some emails, I discovered that several years ago the historian at the park recognized some old photos of the Bighorn Canyon area on EBay and bought them. The group was about 2 dozen photos. About half were prints of the same or extremely similar photos I had, and half were ones I didn't have, but all looked to have been printed back near the time they were taken (1906). However, whereas they had 2 dozen photos shot there, I had 10 dozen, some with my wife's relatives, taken in 1906 and on a second trip in 1915. All I can figure is that my wife's great grandfather sent a batch of photos to someone, probably a business associate, over 100 years ago. They sat in a box all this time, and then some descendant of that person, likely no longer knowing their history, puts them on EBay. It was a stroke of good luck for me, because finding that photo on the Park Service website was key I needed to unlock the lost (and very interesting) story that goes with those 10 dozen photos.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 3208960, member: 13430"]That was a great story! It's interesting how things like that get separated, and then, surprisingly, pop up and their story is reconnected. I was researching a large group of photos handed down in my wife's family, taken between 1900 and 1920. Almost all had nothing written on them, few family recollections about them, and were from different parts of the country. A large chunk looked like Montana/Wyoming/Colorado. One had the word Montana written on it, but I had no idea where in Montana, and why this Pennsylvania family had them. While researching, I stumbled on a photo on the Park Service website for the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, and on the page was the same image as one of the photos I had. I was floored, as these were photos taken by my wife's relatives. Looking some more, I found another old photo they had that was the same. After some emails, I discovered that several years ago the historian at the park recognized some old photos of the Bighorn Canyon area on EBay and bought them. The group was about 2 dozen photos. About half were prints of the same or extremely similar photos I had, and half were ones I didn't have, but all looked to have been printed back near the time they were taken (1906). However, whereas they had 2 dozen photos shot there, I had 10 dozen, some with my wife's relatives, taken in 1906 and on a second trip in 1915. All I can figure is that my wife's great grandfather sent a batch of photos to someone, probably a business associate, over 100 years ago. They sat in a box all this time, and then some descendant of that person, likely no longer knowing their history, puts them on EBay. It was a stroke of good luck for me, because finding that photo on the Park Service website was key I needed to unlock the lost (and very interesting) story that goes with those 10 dozen photos.[/QUOTE]
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