photo podcast Archives - Maureen Taylor The Photo Detective Tue, 24 May 2022 23:31:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://maureentaylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-site-icon-32x32.png photo podcast Archives - Maureen Taylor 32 32 99869351 Episode 140: Talking Postcards with The Postcardist https://maureentaylor.com/episode-140-talking-postcards-with-the-postcardist/ Sun, 08 Aug 2021 04:00:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=69057 In today’s world, those of us with mobile devices communicate by texting. For our turn of the twentieth-century ancestors, it was through the mail. Imagine getting multiple mail deliveries a day and the possibilities of that communication.  Postcards were a quick way of touching base with friends and family. Businesses used cards to advertise and […]

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In today’s world, those of us with mobile devices communicate by texting. For our turn of the twentieth-century ancestors, it was through the mail. Imagine getting multiple mail deliveries a day and the possibilities of that communication.  Postcards were a quick way of touching base with friends and family. Businesses used cards to advertise and so did realtors. Real photo postcards are my favorite, but if you think they were unique, my guest clarifies that.  My guest started writing postcards as a child and never stopped. He receives dozens of them in the mail every day.  

Episode 103: Organize, Preserve and Share with Collectionaire.com

Episode 98: Collect Photo Stories with StoryGlory.com

About My Guest:

Frank Roche is the host of The Postcardist Podcast. Over the past three years and 110 episodes, he’s interviewed leading collectors, designers, writers, and authors about their postcard passion. A former journalist and executive communication consultant, Frank has been writing postcards since he was five. Frank is the proud owner of the world’s largest Bigfoot postcard collection.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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]]> 69057 Episode 132: The Wedding Detectives Charlotte Sibtain and Cole Moreton https://maureentaylor.com/episode-132-the-wedding-detectives-charlotte-sibtain-and-cole-moreton/ Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:00:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=68487 Take one wedding photo, add some research and you’ll end up with quite the story. That’s the premise behind The Wedding Detectives on BBC Radio 4. Charlotte Sibtain was on The Photo Detective back in episode 44 vintage Wedding Photos.  I discovered Charlotte’s Instagram feed and so did reporter Cole Moreton. Together they uncover the […]

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Take one wedding photo, add some research and you’ll end up with quite the story. That’s the premise behind The Wedding Detectives on BBC Radio 4. Charlotte Sibtain was on The Photo Detective back in episode 44 vintage Wedding Photos.  I discovered Charlotte’s Instagram feed and so did reporter Cole Moreton. Together they uncover the tales behind what on the surface look like ordinary wedding images.  Murder and mayhem are just one of the stories they found. You don’t have to live in the UK to listen to their program. My fingers are crossed the series gets expanded. Let’s help them by tuning in via the web. Link in the show notes. 

Episode 44: Vintage Wedding Photos

Episode 98: Collect Photo Stories with StoryGlory

About My Guest:

Charlotte Sibtain is a London-based social researcher who collects vintage wedding photos and then reunites them where possible with the families. She is also the co-host of the popular BBC Radio 4 series, ‘The Wedding Detectives’.

Cole Moreton is a writer and broadcaster exploring who we are and what we believe in. His BBC Radio 4 series The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away won Audio Moment of the Year at the Arias and Best Writing at the World’s Best Radio Awards in New York. He also contributes to Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2. Cole was named as Interviewer of the Year at the Press Awards for his work with the Mail on Sunday and also writes for other titles including The Guardian and the i. He is the author of five books including Hungry for Home, which was shortlisted alongside Zadie Smith’s White Teeth for the prestigious John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for first book of any kind. An East Ender by birth, he now lives by the sea.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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]]> 68487 Episode 131: Visualizing Equality: African American Rights in Photographs and Drawings with Dr. Aston Gonzalez https://maureentaylor.com/episode-131-visualizing-equality-african-american-rights-in-photographs-and-drawings-with-dr-aston-gonzalez/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 04:00:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=68488 The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans.  Producing printed and photographic images for activists advanced their campaigns for black rights.  Purchase “Visualizing Equality” by clicking here. […]

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The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans.  Producing printed and photographic images for activists advanced their campaigns for black rights. 

Purchase “Visualizing Equality” by clicking here.

Episode 101: Rediscovering an American Community of Color 

Episode 120: Good Pictures: Amateur Photography and Our Family with Art Historian Kim Beil

About My Guest:

Dr. Aston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long nineteenth century. He is an associate professor of History at Salisbury University. Before teaching in Maryland, he completed a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship through the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The University of North Carolina Press published his first book, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, in September 2020. He has published articles about African American portraiture during the Early Republic, picturing Black citizenship during the Civil War, the creation of African American archives, the visual representations of escaped slaves, and the visual production of free Black abolitionists.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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]]> 68488 Episode 129: Using Photos to Create Heirlooms With GenerationStory https://maureentaylor.com/episode-129-using-photos-to-create-heirlooms-with-generationstory/ Sun, 23 May 2021 04:00:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=67930 Two and a half years ago, Shannon Uschold of GenerationStory app was a guest on this podcast.  Listeners rocketed it to one of the top ten episodes where it stayed for a couple of years. I know you have heirlooms you don’t know what to do with and items you’d like to share. Two years […]

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Two and a half years ago, Shannon Uschold of GenerationStory app was a guest on this podcast.  Listeners rocketed it to one of the top ten episodes where it stayed for a couple of years. I know you have heirlooms you don’t know what to do with and items you’d like to share. Two years ago, Shannon had a dream and worked tirelessly to find solutions. She did it. GenerationStory app gives us a way to preserve the stories of heirlooms large and small as well as providing a way for us to share our history by creating new items from pillows to wall coverings.  

Episode 19: GenerationStory App

Episode 86: Every Thing Tells a Story

About My Guest:

Shannon Uschold is the Founder & CEO of GenerationStory, a free app that provides anyone a quick and easy way to archive, and tell the story of your most treasured family keepsakes and heirlooms.  In addition to the app, GenerationStory has a Shopify site offering on-demand, customizable products using images of your most treasured items. 

The mission is to capture memories before they are lost and to help people organize and share their family story. 

For Shannon, Every object has a story.  Like many things, GS had a history even before it was created. Compelled by childhood memories, objects, and family stories that surrounded her –  Shannon was inspired to create a solution for organizing and capturing memories before they were lost.  Each time she visited her grandmother’s house, she could be found sitting on a carpet in front of a bookcase full of old family treasures.  Her grandmother would tell little stories about the strips of paper that were rolled inside or attached to the back of an item. 

Coming from a long line of family preservationists, a grandmother, her mother, it’s no wonder Shannon found herself captivated by family stories.  She is a storyteller with a mission to preserve those significant objects in our lives and personal histories.  For Shannon, objects possess the power to captivate and inspire.

The GenerationStory approach that every object has a story – creates a pathway to connect all generations providing the capability to bring together all ages across all cultures.  They are focused on preserving stories before they are lost through the unique lens of sharing our family treasures.  Sharing the story of …… Who We Are, Who We Were and Who We Will Be. 

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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]]> 67930 Episode 121: Ask Maureen March 2021 https://maureentaylor.com/episode-121ask-maureen-march-2021/ Sun, 28 Mar 2021 04:00:00 +0000 https://maureentaylor.com/?p=67584 In this monthly podcast, Maureen shares questions received via email and through social media. Can you tell us about changing exposure times for photographic portraits and why people didn’t smile for pictures? Do you have a good resource for looking up photographer names by location and years they were active? Is there a good resource […]

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In this monthly podcast, Maureen shares questions received via email and through social media.

  • Can you tell us about changing exposure times for photographic portraits and why people didn’t smile for pictures?
  • Do you have a good resource for looking up photographer names by location and years they were active?
  • Is there a good resource for dating children’s clothing styles?
  • How can I preserve a rusty tintype?
  • Can you determine the financial status of a person in a portrait?
  • What can you do with deteriorating Polaroids?

Episode 117: Ask Maureen February 2021

Episode 113: Ask Maureen January 2021

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com

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