My question also. This gentleman that found the photos put them on his Flickr account. My family has many photos of persons from decades ago that no one alive now can recognize. Shows how important it is to talk to and listen to the Elderly of your family.
It’s also important to write on the back of the pics who is in them, and the date.
Also reminds us why it is important to label photos (or put negatives in envelopes or containers that are labeled).
Only problem - with today’s disappearing use of real film in the face of the digital era... such memories will vanish with the people captured...
Us too. People HAVE to label those old pictures while the people in them are still within living memory. Use a pencil on the back.
The problem is that people take so many pictures that they find it daunting to label and organize them all, and so they don't do any. This has only gotten worse since the advent of digital photography.
My wife has a plastic box as big as an ice chest full of family pix going back to when her parents were children. I tell her that if she doesn't throw 98 out of every 100 away, and put the rest in an album labeled with names and dates, she might as well never have taken any pictures at all.
I've taken something like 20,000 digital pictures since the equipment was invented. I have only kept about five hundred. Easy to archive from one medium to another, easy to organize, easy to label, easy to print out as a picture book for long-term preservation.
-ccm