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Transcription
[The personal inscription is too weathered to transcribe reliably from this photograph.]
English translation
A full translation is not possible from the surviving photograph. No personal name or date has been assigned where the stone cannot be read.
Reading note prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive.
- Archive reference
- RB-PHO-0011
- Date
- Modern family photograph; stone date unread
- Digital image
- 1440 × 1800 pixels
- Evidence status
- Historic cemetery object; identity unresolved
- Uncertainty
- The stone appears among the family’s Reichenbach cemetery photographs, but the surviving image does not permit a responsible reading of the personal name, patronymic or date. Its relationship to the documented family line is therefore unresolved.
- Source and provenance
- Family photograph made during cemetery research in Halberstadt and accessioned as RB-PHO-0011.
- Credit
- Reichenbach Family Archive
- Rights
- Family-owned photograph; cleared for publication by the archive owner.
- Image treatment
- The supplied JPEG is shown without generative alteration. Contrast has not been used to invent missing letterforms.
Published under the seven editorial rules.
Permanent citation
How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “This weathered gravestone has not yielded its name.” Modern family photograph; stone date unread. RB-PHO-0011. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0011.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0011