These are lovely! Women in previous eras always look like elegant Old Hollywood movie stars and the men- well there isn’t much to them that is distinctive of their era appearance wise. Women definitely have had hair, makeup, clothing changes that make the date of a photo more believable. The only time I think I can look at a photo of a man and believe the era is when they are about 16 it seems, these photos taken of them standing or sitting that are not close up. My great great grandparents have a photo like that, when they were about 16 getting married. I don’t know if I am making sense without examples.... so many older eras.. earlier days of photography where it took much longer than the manual handheld camera, where the people stood longer than expected and their smiles were not captured. The photos of a very large family in front of their farmhouse (we have some or those too, my maternal grandmother’s father’s side a printed photo book of ancestors. 1800s.. grandma was born in 1924) One of my favorite photo collections is from, was it the Victorian era?? Where the man had a hidden camera and caught candid shots of people walking and greeting him. It’s wonderful! An era we don’t have a lot of smiling photos from, and those smiles made people look closer to what we modernly think of each age group facially.
