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While organizing a family album, I noticed that hair shades look inconsistent across several old prints. Two prints from the same period seem to show different shades on the same person. We have no reliable record of a color change, and memories of the period disagree. For vocabulary rather than identification, I have been looking at hair color analysis without assuming that a scanned photograph can settle the original shade. My current idea is to describe the visible appearance and mark the actual hair color as unconfirmed. I would retain the original scan alongside edited versions and explain which image the caption describes. The captions will be shared with younger relatives who never met these people, which makes careful wording more useful than a confident guess. How would you phrase that distinction in an album caption without filling every page with technical notes? |
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