{"id":3044,"date":"2007-10-12T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2007-10-12T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:44:55","slug":"photo_detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"Photo Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119214969916756801.html?mod=hpp_us_editors_picks\">Alexandra Alter<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Maureen Taylor has dated a photograph to 1913 by studying the size and shape of a Lion touring car&#8217;s headlamps. Armed with her collection of 19th-century fashion magazines, she can pinpoint the brief period when Victorian women wore their bangs in tight curls rather than swept back. Using a technique borrowed from the CIA, she identified a photo of Jesse James by examining the shape of his right ear.<br \/>\nWith millions of Americans obsessively tracing their roots, Ms. Taylor has emerged as the nation&#8217;s foremost historical photo detective. During a recent meeting of the Maine Genealogical Society, attendees lined up a dozen deep as she handled their images with a cotton glove and peered at the details through a photographer&#8217;s loupe. One man offered a portrait photo and asked if it could be of his great grandmother, who died in 1890. &#8220;It&#8217;s not,&#8221; Ms. Taylor said after about 15 seconds; she&#8217;d dated the hairstyle and billowy blouse to the early 20th century. When another attendee asked why her great-great-grandfather was wearing small hoops in his ears in a portrait, Ms. Taylor explained, &#8220;He was in the maritime trade.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Alter: Maureen Taylor has dated a photograph to 1913 by studying the size and shape of a Lion touring car&#8217;s headlamps. Armed with her collection of 19th-century fashion magazines, she can pinpoint the brief period when Victorian women wore their bangs in tight curls rather than swept back. Using a technique borrowed from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,32,33,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}