The Long Island Museum presents: Photography and Genealogy with Ray Smith

What’s in a Photograph?

Sunday, September 18, 2011 • 2 p.m.

ABAA member Ray Smith will be presenting a lecture and workshop on the interrelationship between photography and genealogy, and how research in both fields can compliment one another.

Each program is different, depending on what audience members bring for examination. Students in the history of photographic portraiture are often confronted with the problem of identifying and dating portraits. Similarly, researchers in genealogy often have difficulty in attaching a picture to a subject while undertaking intense investigation into family history.

The intent of the lecture / workshop is to to offer a bridge between the two fields by suggesting ways one can attach a name to a face (i.e., a photographic portrait), and vice versa, a face to a name.

Bring your own family photographs and albums to share!

Discussion will include:
• Types of 19th century photographs
• Analyzing old photos
• Guide to collecting photographs
• Identifying people in your photographs
• Using photos to construct a family tree
• Hands-on discussion of visitors’ photographs and albums

1200 Route 25A
Stony Brook, NY
(631) 751-0066
www.longislandmuseum.org
Free with museum admission