I DO hope the tax was only 5 cents for a photo over 50 cents. Quoting from your page: An act of Congress passed on June 30, 1864 added a new tax on all "photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes or any other sun-pictures" to be paid for by attaching a revenue stamp on the back of the photograph. The tax was set at 2c for a photograph "with a retail value of not over 25c, 3c for a photo costing over 25c but not over 50c; 55c for photos costing over 50c but not over a dollar; and for each additional dollar or fraction of a dollar, another 5c. -- Glen Johnson Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wmjohnson1832 -----Original Message----- From: ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Olive Tree Genealogy Sent: July 2, 2007 9:15 AM To: ontario@rootsweb.com Cc: upper-canada@rootsweb.com Subject: [ONTARIO] Dating Early Photos to find ancestors Hello everyone A new Genealogy Section is now online on Olive Tree Genealogy. It is devoted to helping researchers identify Ancestor Photos. It is a companion project to Lost Faces - Photo Albums, which is the rescue of old albums from the mid to late 1800s, found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/faces/ You can read and see graphic examples online of * Types of Early Photographs http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/photo-types.shtml * Hints for Dating Old Photographs http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/ancestor-photos.shtml * Dating Old Photographs through Clothing & Hairstyle http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/fashions-photos.shtml * How Revenue Stamps Can Date Ancestor Photos http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/revenue-stamps.shtml Feel free to pass this news on to anyone you think might be interested.

Thanks for being a great proof-reader and catching my typo! You're absolutely right, the tax on a photo over 50c was 5c :-) Lorine On 2 Jul 2007 at 11:50, Glen Johnson wrote: > I DO hope the tax was only 5 cents for a photo over 50 cents. Quoting from > your page: > > An act of Congress passed on June 30, 1864 added a new tax on all > "photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes or any other sun-pictures" to be > paid for by attaching a revenue stamp on the back of the photograph. The tax > was set at 2c for a photograph "with a retail value of not over 25c, 3c for > a photo costing over 25c but not over 50c; 55c for photos costing over 50c > but not over a dollar; and for each additional dollar or fraction of a > dollar, another 5c. > > > -- > Glen Johnson > Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wmjohnson1832 > > -----Original Message----- > From: ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ontario-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Olive Tree Genealogy > Sent: July 2, 2007 9:15 AM > To: ontario@rootsweb.com > Cc: upper-canada@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ONTARIO] Dating Early Photos to find ancestors > > Hello everyone > > A new Genealogy Section is now online on Olive Tree > Genealogy. It is devoted to helping researchers > identify Ancestor Photos. > > It is a companion project to Lost Faces - Photo Albums, > which is the rescue of old albums from the mid to late > 1800s, found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/faces/ > > You can read and see graphic examples online of > > * Types of Early Photographs > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/photo-types.shtml > > * Hints for Dating Old Photographs > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/ancestor-photos.shtml > > * Dating Old Photographs through Clothing & Hairstyle > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/fashions-photos.shtml > > * How Revenue Stamps Can Date Ancestor Photos > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/photos/revenue-stamps.shtml > > Feel free to pass this news on to anyone you think might be > interested. > > > > -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com