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Camera Genealogica

Faye Coble lived for 103 years. A happy accident that she was born in 1898 — that meant that she technically lived in three centuries.

In time they may disappear altogether — lost in a flooded basement or perhaps an estate sale eventually lands them in a basket of random old photos in an antique store. I began this post suggesting I would talk about the changes in consumer camera technology over the 20th Century as reflected in a collection of family photos that spanned over 100 years. But I mentioned at the start that the appeal of genealogy to me was never predicated on finding out that we are related to a Scottish clan lord (or Vice President, John C. Calhoun, for god’s sake).

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