How Old are Your Oldest Photos?

Yes, Lakota - sometimes photos get lost and can be hard to get back again unless there are more than one of them. Computers are not so safe places to keep photos, they can get lost when the puter crashes. I hope you at least met your grandpa..

Great, it must be interesting to see them. Some pictures I have are made on very thick paper and the photos are really good..

my brother has them yup I met that grandpa was on my dads side now my sis in law sent picks of my moms dad and his dad that would be my great granpa and had to be in the 1800s for sure!

20´s was a long time ago, the pictures will soon be 100 years..It must be great to have the photo of your dad as a baby.. Sometimes it is not easy to imagine our parents as babies..

Yes, it is kind of funny seeing this tender picture of my dad, and, kind of dificult too, now that he is no longer here.

Yes, photos of family members are precious for us. I´m glad too that they went to the photographer when they did. Not many had cameras long time ago. I would like to make a photo book to give to younger relatives - at least to those who would appreciate it!!

That´s a long time ago, ninety years.. I wish I had a photo of my father as a baby, but that time their family was so big that I guess they couldn´t afford it. You have an interesting photo with four generations together!

I totally agree! I think its an awesome picture.

No smiles? Going to a photographer must have been a serious moment, maybe a bit scaring to become a picture.. They also had to think about not to move for a long time, or the picture would look burry..

I think it has something to do with who has taken them and if you use them for commercial purpose. But if they are very old, they may be free to publish. Where did your grandpa come from? Most people in South America must be immigrants or have ancestors that are immigrant. Well, even the indians must have come from somewhere.. Babylon?? It´s great that you have pictures that are over a hundred years old.

I suppose all those pictures were not commercial pictures in the first place and were owned by the people who paid the photographers. They are not signed either. The grandfather in those pictures was German and they took pictures while at a safari in Africa. The pictures are awesome. I imagine all that is already a paradise lost.

That is an old photo! Maybe the copyright has expired long ago, if there ever was any.. It could be good to make a copy - just in case.. but I have no idea where it is best to keep it.. A wedding was a special occasion to take a photo, even if it was expensive that time..

Well - why not ask your parents about the oldest photos. They might remember a great deal and be able to tell some of your history! You might find some very interesting pictures among the oldest ones. Maybe there is some info online about the copyright of photos..

Yes, once in a while it is great to look at this kind of photos. Their quality is abosolutely great, as they have stayed perfect until now. I´m not sure when they started taking photos of "ordinary" people. But it must have been a special occasion as people dressed up in what looks like their best clothes, when they went to the photographer!

I guess it depends where people lived that time. My mom was the only child and lived in a town, so they had better possibility to take photos. My dad lived in the country and he had at least 14 siblings who lived at home, so there are no pictures of him as a child. They probably couldn´t afford it. When I was a baby, it was right after the war and you can see the not so good quality of my one year old photo in my profile. Compare with the photo a few years later..