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In this picture we have Mr. & Mrs. Almet Kennedy of Bucyrus, Ohio.  They are "standing in front of our house, with the new car" , and the picture is undated.  Mr. Kennedy's suit is basic, and Mrs. Kennedy's dress doesn't show us a hemline, so it would be difficult to date the picture based on their clothing.  We can see that the trees are green, and the flowers in the planter under the house are mature.  Their house is on the West side of the road, and sun the is coming from the west, but low in the sky.  There are some leaves in the grass.  Taking all of that into consideration, we can guess that this picture is early fall. In the past we've described how we can use the car in the picture to date the photograph.  So what do we look at on the car to date it?  We would normally start at the license plate, but the picture doesn't give us much on that plate except that the plate is very light in color.  The numbers, barely visible lo...

I love this picture more than you will ever know. And evidently, others do too - its been shared, published, colorized cropped - this one has been cropped so we can focus on the car better. My great grandmother, Hattie and her sister Ethel, used to make the drive from Ohio, to Florida every year. I have dozens of images of them having a picnic on the beach, all dressed up by today's standards. This picture is not them, although Hattie did own this same make model and year car. First of all, we know somethings about the picture.  So lets review them. 1) We know that this is either a dark blue or a black four door sedan. 2) We can see the dual tailights. 3) We can see the license plate, Ohio, but the year - because of JPG compression, is blocky.  It looks like 1942, but we'll come back to that. 4) We can just see, just to the left of the man's head, the hood detail and the position of the headlight. 5) We can also see that the paint on the car is in good c...