What NOT To Accept
NO to: Do not accept digital photos , except in rare cases. Exception would be well-documented photo scanned both sides, accompanied by info on material and size of the original &thorough provenance info. Example 1: A picture sent from California such as: "This photo is of my great-grandparents William and Sarah Crozier who lived on xxxx Road in Colrain in the 1880s. It is on the living room wall of my house in San Bernardino. It came to me via my mother ________ who moved to California in the 1960s, after she left Colrain. The photo is on a wooden frame 8" x 12". Pictures of both sides are enclosed" ... email from Bob Smith, August, 2024 In this example we would accept the scan, and make a scan of the email/letter with this provenance info. Example 2: A well-documented photo found on line such as the Jones Library's high-res scan of the 1891 Colrain Village photo Do not accept an internet research printout ...