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icky_sticky_notes t1_j9cgp85 wrote

Defintely somewhere in the range of 1920-1930 or so. The fit of the dress, footwear, hairstyles, veil style. 1939-45 was WWII so even if you think about the fact that the bouquets are abundant, that would not have been the case during wartime making this prior to that period.

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butterflypoo69 t1_j9cdor3 wrote

There are people who, as a hobby or sometimes even a sort of profession, look for old photo albums in thrift stores and similar. Sometimes, they will try to find the people who owned the pictures, or even their descendants, and do so successfully. There are also what are called "found photos" - u/turdferguson3891 smartly mentioned these in his comment - these collectors take the old photos and make up back stories for them. I've done a few myself, it's fun.

In terms of format, and others can disagree with me, when you have a photograph where you can't identify everyone, it's ok to do something like this - "Bob Jones, unknown, Adam Smith, Betty Page, unknown" and similar.

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ElectricMan324 t1_j9ccs0a wrote

I worked in a very old manufacturing plant, and as an engineer sometimes had to cover for night supervisors when they were on vacation. This was in the mid to late 90s.

One night I had to find an electrician, and went into one of the remote locker rooms to find him.

The entire room - walls, lockers, door, and even the ceiling, were covered with centerfolds. Even the tables had them glued to it. I was both shocked and impressed at the amount of work that took.

Even then that was not okay, but I wasnt going to be the one to point it out (and get the union guys mad at me). The place went out of business and was torn down years ago.

Funny what we used to think as normal.

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