ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the historian’s use of photographs and oral sources. What is not shown by images created as testaments to what humans have experienced, what images alone might not allow us to see, can often be inferred from other texts. My research has included conducting interviews with the keepers of family photograph collections, with those who have served as practical guardians of family memory. In examining the relation of photographs and oral sources, I discuss two Brazilian families and the place of photography in their daily lives. The chapter treats photography as a “place of memories” that each family developed in forms distinctive of social situation and historical period.1
