- One for @NLIreland ? MT @JayneShrimpton: recognise the country house in this c.1910 scene? Possibly County Cork http://t.co/4ItAYHaQ #
- @PhotoDetective what is the earliest picture you have ever identified? And how did you know the date? (sorry, two questions!) in reply to PhotoDetective #
- @Ordinary_Times @nlireland @jayneshrimpton great minds and all that! Carol, this is your challenge for the week! in reply to Ordinary_Times #
- Excellent, well done! MT @JayneShrimpton: Very excited to be helping with #oldphotos for forthcoming series of Who Do You Think You Are? 🙂 #
- .@typejunky Robert Mapplethorpe died this day 1989 (via @PhotoHistorian) Just imagine how he would have photographed those lumps of plastic! #
- @JayneShrimpton are these your family, or a family you're researching? in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- I've just made a mental calculation and reckon it will take about 5 years to share the mystery albums I have sitting here not yet online! #
- @JayneShrimpton did I tell you about my own family album I now have? CdVs from c1870s onwards. Dad wants me to scan. Very exciting! in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- Just a picture of your average suburban family in Norwich during WW2, until you read the poignant story http://t.co/nDU03kak #
- @JayneShrimpton have to finish John Hook album first, then Nurse Ripley's postcards, and also have three American mysteries … in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- @JayneShrimpton … and a daguerreotype of a girl with commemorative poems from her mother found behind it, a dried rose and a lock of hair in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- Some of these @statelibrarynsw images of Sydney are stunning (just click next/prev) but little information available http://t.co/wn1BiNMg #
- Just catching up with the @NLIreland daily uploads on Flickr Commons. Today's mystery has already been solved! http://t.co/DRo55pp9 #
- Anyone got a clue where the @V_and_A crowdsourced wedding pictures can be found? Everything now seems to go to http://t.co/CNSpUw4t #
- Excellent! RT @Reminiscene_: Another success in the offing! In contact with a descendant of somebody feature on http://t.co/20fkfYNi #
- Wow. And excellent 'deep zoom' image MT @delaval_astley: RT @BBCRadio4: Daguerreotype of Chartist meeting http://t.co/tN7sXlAy #
- @BBCRadio4 Wonderful image. Wondering why you put 'photograph' in quotes? – Daguerreotype of Chartist meeting http://t.co/tN7sXlAy in reply to BBCRadio4 #
- Researching that Chartist daguerreotype, it's by William Kilburn, taken 10 April 1848, from the Royal Colllection – http://t.co/8D8Q2NKr #
- Vintage people on mobile phones! http://t.co/QbRgojz4 & http://t.co/ioNBYvXR & http://t.co/s5WIA1Gl (bottom-left) #
- Abdulla, the murderer of Judge Norman of Calcutta, 1871. Anyone know anything about the antecedents of this man?! http://t.co/8AqoC8Of #
- Britain's First Photo Album – great looking 10-part series featuring Francis Frith on BBC2 (UK) starts tonight http://t.co/X6owk9Bg #
- It's a beautiful album MT @statelibrarynsw There's a bit of info, but if anyone has more, we're happy to know it! http://t.co/ZMJG8UUe #
- So, is this a post mortem? Of the horse!!! "Young children posing in studio with horse, by Lawson, Forres" http://t.co/jWvP0C2T #
- Indeed! RT @margotnote: Tinted stereoscopic ambrotype of a young lady in silk and lace http://t.co/PWcINT8b Gorgeous and expensive! #
- Once totally overlooked, I have now grown to appreciate this lovely hand coloured ambrotype of a mother and child http://t.co/X46PiPBA #
- I seem to have a thing for vintage pics of interiors at the moment http://t.co/L0PqKqxO #
- @PhotoDetective Wow, 1840? I assume it was a daguerreotype? Mine is c. late 1840s, dated from the case stamp – http://t.co/Eu6KIKNy in reply to PhotoDetective #
- You'd never have thought these Warnecke colour images were as early as the 1930s and '40s – http://t.co/ugP1hB38 #
- I really shouldn't visit the Flickr Commons home page – far too easy to get distracted! http://t.co/b1Omosmu #
- Just imported a batch of pics of historic French WW1 city of Bergues onto @Historypin Some nice Street View overlays http://t.co/JLEUousT #
- Who said the world isn't a greener place? @Historypin shows there were no trees on this street in Dunkirk c. 1914 http://t.co/0VchC1Yl #
- The Preston Guild is held only every 20 years. It's on this year, but here it is in 1922 (WW2 spoilt the maths!) http://t.co/1MmDde5A #
- More about Preston Guild history here – http://t.co/6LWSQjwK. Follow @guild2012 for this year's events #
- @PhotoDetective Hi Maureen, I can't comment on your Facebook posts. Do you have to add me as a friend or something? http://t.co/KRfgQO3d #
- @Guild2012 did you see my 1922 Preston Guild pics? http://t.co/XNH1V2z6 in reply to Guild2012 #
- @PhotoDetective I've tried friending you twice now – should be in your requests. Very odd. in reply to PhotoDetective #
- @PhotoDetective So you met @nickstanhope ? As he knows, I'm a big @Historypin fan. Have you seen my pics there? http://t.co/ch3KVqxO in reply to PhotoDetective #
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