The aim of www.whatsthatpicture.com is to allow people to post unidentified vintage photographs and other images so that other users can help to identify them.

What's That Picture?

Have you ever looked at an old photograph and wondered where it was taken? What something is in a picture? Or whose face it is staring back at you?

What's That Picture? is a community-based site for anyone who wants to find out where, what, or who is featured in an old picture.

How to get started on WhatsThatPicture.com

Christina Ellen (Ellie) and Annie Clarke, Melbourne, Australia

Thanks to some initial clues from Flickr members prompting some personal research, and then backed up by confirmation from an Ancestry member, the three Clarke sisters have now been identified.

They were the three daughters of George Clarke and Christina Walker.  There was also a brother, James Mitchell Clarke.  I wonder if any of these are also represented in this mystery album? 

It has also been noted by a descendent that there are records of George Clarke in Ceylon, which ties in with several of the photographs in the album being from there.

Dating photographs

Sat, 27/02/2010 - 23:17 — James - admin

In response to overwhelming demand from visitors to the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show I have started to piece together a guide to the identification and dating of vintage photographs

Whilst in embronic form, it already contains links to some of the best sites for advice, and also directories for photographic studios.

Who Do You Think You Are? Live

Fri, 26/02/2010 - 01:19 — James - admin

For three days, from today until Sunday 28 February, I'll be on a stand in the photography section at the Who Do You Think You Are? Live event at London's Olympia.

Should you be coming to the show please call by (I am resident photo 'expert' on Pauline Prynne's stand up on the first floor).  If you hadn't thought about it but suddenly feel the urge, I have a couple of complimentary tickets, valid for any day.  Drop me a line via email giving me a days notice and I'll arrange to meet you somewhere outside the show with the ticket(s).  First come first served.

Should you be reading this having visited the show and you're looking for the answers to the mystery identifications, bear with me for a short while and they'll be posted here soon!

Mystery album

Mystery album of 19th century images with Scottish, English, Irish, European, Asian and Australian connections

"Norma Robertson McEdward, fifth daughter of Mrs McEdward Age 2 1/2 years" by Johnstone & O'Shannessy, Melbourne, AustraliaThis wonderful album contains an amazing assortment of images, ranging from the early 1860s and containing primarily carte de visite and cabinet portraits, but also animals and landscapes.

The largest single nation represented is Scotland, but with many images from just across the border in Berwick upon Tweed, and then on through Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, India, Sri Lanka, British Burmah and Australia.

Family names represented include Dickson, Edward,Young, Gray, Yair(?) and Clarke.

There are even two 'celebrity' pictures, one of Professor Blackie, the other unconfirmed (Prof Sellers?).

Here are some pages highlighting the different photographs in the album, and what I have managed to find out about them.

 

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