Today, I posted the following to the GenPhoto email discussion group. I thought it would make a good addition to the blog as well. Google has a new service called My Maps enabling anyone to create a public or private map containing descriptive markers for just about anything. The markers can contain rich text and images. Card photographs make an ideal subject for mapping, since they generally are imprinted with the location of the photographer's studio on the back or front. This makes is possible to create a marker for each studio. If the photograph has a known date (a tax stamp date, indicated in writing or estimated from the card style or knowledge of the subject), studios can be mapped as the photographer moves. I have mapped the known studio locations for J. G. Mangold , a significant nineteenth-century studio photographer and publisher of stereoviews in the Quad Cities region and Florida. I encourage everyone to note the photographer's imprint on the back of the card pho...
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