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Hil, the shoes remind me of the thirties: [link]

Thanks, Deena. The shoes do look like those, but I'm wondering how long they were in style. If the younger woman in the pictures is who I think it is, then these could have been very early thirties at the latest, and the negatives are glass, and my brief google tells me that people pretty much stopped using them by the end of the twenties.

I'm no expert at all, but the pictures seem later than 20s to me. They look similar enough to the pictures I've seen of my family that are 30s.

Hmm. Thanks, guys. The people in the pictures might not be who I think they are. If they are the thirties, then the glass negatives seem confusing, since I've got about 100 film negatives of baby pictures of someone born in 1933 in the same box where I found these.

It is just as likely that my pictures of people in the 30s are wearing older styles!

Also, since these are Europe, and yours (I'm assuming) are America, the styles might have been different. I sent an email to my dad's cousin, who would have known these people when she was a little girl (she was born in 1933), to see if she can identify anyone.

I don't think there were many glass negatives past the mid '20s. Skirt length didn't get that short until into the '20s.

Hil, I'm guessing late twenties to early thirties from the hair. Probably right around the turn of the decade.

I's conceivable that someone might be using older technology when they have the resources. The photographer may have been using up stock or took a long time to switch to newer camera technology.

How were these scanned, Hil? was light shown through as in a transparency scanner? Was the base toward the glass of the scanner or the emulsion? Sometimes a pass with each side up will reveal new things.

That was a quick and cheap scan -- lay the negatives on the scanner, put a piece of plain white paper on top, close scanner, scan. I had them emulsion side down.

Judging by the fact that these were all taken in a home, not a studio, and seem pretty casual (the woman sitting in the kitchen, the man reading the newspaper), I'm guessing they were taken by an amateur photographer, not a professional. (Also, a few have light reflecting horribly off white backgrounds in a way I'm pretty sure a professional would have known to avoid.)

My best guess right now is that these were taken sometime shortly before the wedding of the younger woman seen in some of the pictures and the young man seen standing outside the building. I'm pretty certain that the older man and woman are her parents, which leaves her younger brother, who would have been a teenager, as the probable photographer. That would make it sometime around the very early thirties, since their first child was born in 1933. (If, of course, my identifications of the people are all correct.)