Do you have a shoe-box full of old family
photographic treasures?

Sometimes you get out the family pictures and you are greeted with the poor state of these irreplaceable photos. Sadly, you realize that they are scratched, moldy, faded and torn.

Recently, we worked on a picture of a young woman that was taken on a tin-type photograph around 1878. She was the daughter of one of the first Texas Rangers. This photo, seen above at the left, was taken just before she was married. Today, the image is so cloudy and damaged that you can hardly tell it is a woman. Pass your mouse over this image. The "before" image is corrected to make it light enough for you to see the damages. The original is even worse. You can see that she was a real beauty. It looks like that picture was taken yesterday.

Sometime later, she posed for this wedding picture which was printed on a new-fangled invention—photographic paper. Here we have cleaned it up and made it a picture ready to last another 120 years.

It is a delight to restore family pictures to original conditions. We give families their memories back. Anytime someone looses their photographs in disasters, it is heartbreaking. Photographs that are found after floods and tornadoes, for example, are usually dirty, muddy or worse. We can repair such pictures if the image is still intact under the muck. (Please do not try to clean a muddy photo on your own, it could be destroyed.)