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I have an LP record of the musical Baker Street starring Fritz Weaver, one of my favorite lines is Holmes’ admonition to Watson, “put your brain to work, not just the optic nerve!” Another application of such advice is to really look at period photographs for the additional cues about the people and places in them.

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Aren't photographs wonderful? We perhaps take a picture of something specific, and then when we look back we really notice the incidental things we accidentally captured that can tell us so much more than we intended! The shops are now different; the tiny trees have grown; the building has been demolished and replaced by something new ...

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