If you are over 25 (or thereabouts), you will immediately recognize the photo's negative. Of course, back in the olden days pictures were taken on film that had to be developed and printed. We would take those 4x6 prints, choose the best ones, then place them in a series of paper photo albums.
By 2005, I was shooting exclusively digital photos, and eventually started sharing those pictures using Flickr.
For various reasons, our paper photo albums stalled at the 1998 mark. This created a family history gap between 1999 and 2005. For that time period, photos of family, landscapes, flora and fauna, etc. were trapped in neatly labeled envelopes of photographic negatives. Their associated 4x6 prints were filed in storage boxes, queued up for paper photo albums that would never be made.
To remedy the six-year absence of photos in our accessible family's history, I realized we needed to scan those trapped negatives. It was a multi-month project, fit in between other important activities. But now, the six-year history gap has been filled.
FWIW, here are some eclectic photos from the six-year gap that have not really seen the light of day until now.
Eventually, we will use the scanned photos to pick up where we left off on our paper photo albums, but this time using custom-created books like Kathy has done for the more recent digital pictures.
In the meantime, the "gap" images are now available for perusing and sharing, just like our existing collection of digital photos.
