Old film rolls from flea markets, scanned and put online. Someone's vacations, birthdays, random Tuesdays — forgotten in a drawer for decades. I don't know where or when these were taken. Help me figure it out.
Photos we can't place yet. Look for clues — street signs, car models, architecture — and help figure out where and when they were taken.
Famous photos get archived. Studio portraits get framed. But the shot of your dad grilling in 1974? The road trip where nobody remembers the town? That stuff ends up in boxes at flea markets. These are the photos nobody thought were worth keeping — and they're the most honest record of how people actually lived.
The film stock tells you the decade. The grain tells you the conditions. Kodak Gold, Fuji Superia, ORWO from East Germany — each one pins you to a time and place before you even look at the image. A phone photo from 2015 and 2023 looks the same. A roll of Agfa from 1968 could only be from 1968.
Submit location guesses, date estimates, anything you spot in the photos.
Recognize a car model or a street corner? Leave a note. Every detail helps.
Bookmark photos you want to come back to.
It's happened before. Someone scrolling through spots their grandmother at 25. Rolls come from all over — Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Belgium, South America. The people in them had families. Some of those families are still around. Putting these online is the only shot at getting a photo back to the people in it.
Hundreds of rolls. Thousands of frames. Most of them unidentified.
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