I found this girl on some ebay post...with good quality scans. Those are hard to come by these days, what with everybody putting their watermarks everywhere. I collect old photographs... I think I'm petrified to think that one day, my photos will be destined for the garbage bin... maybe it's a tiny bit of my vanity that keeps me rescuing other peoples lost relatives. I once bought a whole box of photographs of one particular family...the last living relative was in a nursing home and the womans estate went up for auction... so I have all of her mother's photographs now... They smile down at me and I wish I had stories to go with their smiles... but alas...
I run my families website, right now through ancestry.com, and busy myself preserving old letters, newspaper clippings, photos, bus tickets... I wonder just how much of this old stuff anyone else is ever going to care about. I wonder if what I am doing is really just a waste of my own time?
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It's worth what you make it worth. I spent a whole night looking at the crime scene photos of various famous people once. Bonnie & Clyde are the ones that stick with me the most.
These photos are a lot less morbid, they stick with the good times or curious times. Literally, you're holding histories in your hands and you should always treasure that. I know I would. Is that really worth something? Monetarily, not really. Sentimentally? It's worth a ton. Whatever value placed on it in the end is yours entirely.
Me? I'd treasure the stories still.
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