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How to take family photos your grandchildren will care about

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 27, 2025
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[Family Group], by Charles Nègre, 1854, Salted paper print from glass negative, Public Domain

When Esther Schindler inherited five huge boxes of 10,000 family slides after her father's death, she embarked on a year-long project to save the family's visual history. As she scanned thousands of images dating back to her parents' 1941 engagement, patterns emerged about which photos held lasting meaning – and which were easily discarded.

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