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I recently acquired the curatorship of thousands of old physical family photos from the 1970'? to the 2000's or so? They're only labeled by date lol I will obviously to be shredding any with me in them and any containing people I feel should be excised from the historical record. I will try to label the ones left with who they are if I know. Beyond that??? There are billions of family pics out there. Does anyone want these anywhere? Should i just hold on to them and hope some alien researcher finds them in the rubble thousands of years from now? Can you sell them in bulk to artists? What do you do with all the pictures? help
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Oct 20, 2023 20:49
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Generally, keep them around. Even if you aren't interested in them today, someone might be interested in them later, where 'later' can be anything from 'weeks' to 'decades'. My family has a few photos floating around from the 30s and 40s which are now considered neat artifacts from generations past. Don't toss those photos - keep them around!
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Oct 21, 2023 02:34
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1986, I am on the right. There's some good stuff in here. I'm just gonna try and sort and label and stick back into storage I guess? I feel bad destroying primary source historical sources. Even if I don't care someday someone might be all "SEE THIS PIC PROVES THAT STYLE OF WINDOWSILL EXISTED IN 1987!"
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Oct 21, 2023 02:40
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I scanned all of ours over covid, not the ones of bushes and maybe a bird and poo poo, but all the people, worst part was trying to guess the date of them all.
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Nov 13, 2023 15:34
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Here's what I did with my grandparents' photos, and will do to my parents' photos when I can get my siblings and a slide projector together. Keep only the ones that mean something to you. Do a hard cull. Most of my grandparents' photos, I threw out. They were mostly of people that I don't recognize, more or less distant relatives, and anyone who knew who they were are dead. If you don't throw most of these photos out, your kids or grandkids (if you have kids) will have to do it. Never to early to start Swedish death cleaning
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Nov 21, 2023 10:30
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Scan the ones you want to save, make sure you have 2 copies of those - one physical and one on a cloud storage provider of some sort. Try to attach labels in some way, shape or form to let others know who the folks in the photos are. If there is anything of even minor historical importance or interest, absolutely save those and label them. As an example, before my maternal grandfather passed, we managed to collect all of his photos from WWII where he served as an XO on a floating drydock in the Pacific. Behind the lines stuff for sure, but it provided a neat glimpse into his history, and one that I and my cousins are all grateful to see. But as was said, the photos of random bushes/buildings/birds that have no context or identifiable persons in them? Feel free to ditch them unless there is some other context that's important (such as "these are from your grandmother's solo trip across Europe immediately after high school.")
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Dec 22, 2023 08:47
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