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Dramatic-Scratch5410 OP t1_j9eu02g wrote

Those folds kill me. The price to restore this was quoted at around 200 by a highly recommended company in Manhattan who do good work. If it was from a family member I'd do it, but other than being an interesting fond I'm having a hard time spending that kind of $

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kllove t1_j9esdiq wrote

Ancestry. com is worth it. Built the tree, check photos other people submitted for your shared relatives, find a match for someone in this photo, then be able to identify other people in the photo from that match. I’ve done this a TON. I recently found a large family portrait on a farm and slowly matched all but two of the 20+ people in it based on my ancestry research.

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tsukahara10 t1_j9elk40 wrote

This reminds me of my time as a submariner. Over the life of the boat, various members of the crew had cut out pictures of topless/nude women from magazines and glued them underneath equipment label plates in Maneuvering. It was a pretty well kept secret until the CO found out people were also drawing dicks in hidden places all over the boat. He made us remove and scrub everything inappropriate from the boat. So sad to remove so much collected history go away. The future crew will never know the record for highest reactor power achieved without the RO getting disqualified.

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Swordfish1929 t1_j9el6cp wrote

I would say the mid 20s given the length of the dress. Hem lines were at their shortest in about 1926 before starting to descend again but a wedding dress would have a longer hem anyway the very boxy tunic shape to the top invokes the earlier half of the decade to me so I would pin this in about 1925/6 but I'm not an expert or anything

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