I just learned about another photo site, Retronaut (FREE to join though you will need to register). It is self described by:
Retronaut is a photographic time machine.
It is a digital collection of tens
of thousands of pictures from across the past, all with one thing in common -
each one has the power to warp your sense of time.
Our team mines archives online and
offline, unearthing pictures that seem not to belong to the time when they were
created, that dissolve away the years like tarnish on a ring, that take our
collective map of the past and tear tiny holes in it - holes through which we
glimpse the real past lying underneath our map.
These are pictures that show not so
much the past as they show “now” – but another version of now.
In the course of
learning more about this site, I came across this article 'Retronauting': why we can't stop sharing old photographs.
The article talks about our interest in old photographs and mentions
another site HistoryInPix (link is to Pinterest page). A Google search on History + Pictures +
Collections brought up a massive collection of such. So, as you research your ancestors, you might check to see if there are any image collections particular to the place and/or time of their lives.
For me, the
interest in pictures (and maps) is that as a visual person, I love to “see”
what the world was like as seen and experienced by my ancestors.
What is your favorite historic photo collection?
Editor’s Note: Old
photograph collections are not a new topic for Upfront with NGS. Catch previous posts on the topic:
+ you can also “search” on Upfront with NGS + Photos or
Photographs or Images and some “mini bytes” will show up
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