Early Photographs on Headstones with Elliot Conte

The Photo Detective

Genealogists love going to cemeteries to view the resting place of ancestors. Information and symbolism on stones vary depending on the time period. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, some gravestones featured photographs. Have you ever seen one? My guest has. He’s been wandering in rural cemeteries in Maine to find out more about the practice.

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Episode 21 The Gravestone Girls

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About My Guest:

Over the past 11 years, Elliot Conte has collected, studied, and made daguerreotypes. He gave a talk on his research on daguerreotypes in cemeteries at the Nelson Atkins Museum and wrote an article on the topic for The Daguerreian Annual

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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