The Solanco Historical Society will hold its next program on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 1:30 p.m. at the society's archives building, located across from the Robert Fulton Birthplace at 1932 Robert Fulton Highway (Route 222), Quarryville. The program is free and open to the public.

In a presentation titled "Dressing for the Photographer," Carolyn Bausinger will share simple ways to date and identify early photographs, as well as the styles of clothing worn during each decade. Determining the approximate date of a photograph may help to identify the people in the pictures. Bausinger noted that many people find it difficult to date 19th-century photographs, primarily because people are unfamiliar with the many different types of photographs - daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visits, and cabinet cards - used during the early decades of photography or with the clothing and hairstyles of that era.

Bausinger is a resident of Willow Valley, having returned to southcentral Pennsylvania in retirement. Before retiring, her various jobs included working as a recreation and program director in Germany for enlisted military personnel, a supervisory human resources administrator for the State of Pennsylvania, and a computer graphic design instructor at a junior college in New Jersey.

Her interest in the history of photography dates back 35 years, when she first took a class in the subject and was captivated by the work of the photographers of the medium's early decades. She gives programs for her retirement community on those bygone photographers and developed "Dressing for the Photographer" as an introduction to that series.