This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ABC.2ACE/3848.1.3.2 Message Board Post: And by the way Donna, photography was not generally available until the late 1850's and that was mostly daguerrotypes. Paper prints were not common till around 1875.