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It is true that not everything can be saved, and not everything should be saved, and it is especially difficult to discern the historical value of items without the context of who, what, when, and where.
However, technology has made it so much easier to scan grandma and grandpa's old photos and post them on facebook, or send them to a local historical society, or even to commercial places such as ancestry.com
But those wartime pics have a great deal of value, even minus the whole context, to help prevent a wholesale dissociation from learning about our past.
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Every time I see old photos in a second-hand store, I wonder what we're losing.
Maybe there should be a "Ministry of Old Photographs" where we could all donate photos of people with any info we have about them.
It's bound to happen...generations pass and the next don't know who the people are. There is no place to save them.
It is true that not everything can be saved, and not everything should be saved, and it is especially difficult to discern the historical value of items without the context of who, what, when, and where.
However, technology has made it so much easier to scan grandma and grandpa's old photos and post them on facebook, or send them to a local historical society, or even to commercial places such as ancestry.com
But those wartime pics have a great deal of value, even minus the whole context, to help prevent a wholesale dissociation from learning about our past.
Exactly this.
But a context lends so much more.
It seems like if there was a good place to put it, a lot of people would.
I know there are folks who look at the old album and go "meh, I don't give a shit" and just toss it.
But most people I've seen really agonize about tossing out the old photos.
But if you take them home, you have to store them. And if they're people you don't know, it becomes "one more responsibility" in the long list of stuff you have to deal with. So....it gets tossed in deference to your kid's school records.
So I think we need a "Way" to deal with them.
I must think on this.