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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 799916" data-attributes="member: 50197">He was born in the late 1890s and would have been around 20 when drafted. Hard to pin down his age from the photo, but around 20 fits. The copy I have has an overlaid criss cross pattern. I'm wondering if it was stored with cloth, or something else in contact and it put a pattern onto the original photo. If properly processed and stored, these old prints often hold up extremely well. My wife has some prints from the 19th century that are still in great shape.I have learned to be leery of family stories. They often don't hold up to objective evidence. My great grandmother was supposed to be full blooded Native American. We even have a photo of her with a distinctive beaded collar and classic NA looks. DNA of one of my family in direct line doesn't agree.</blockquote>