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Find and restore your lost school photos
Search through the old photos that you do have. If you're looking for a specific school photo, the first place to look is in that drawer where you stashed all of your old photos. If it's not there, you'll find other school photos, which will likely have the name of the photographer on them.
Perform an Internet or phone book search and contact the photographer. Most schools use the same photographer for years. Once you find the name of the photographer who took your picture years ago, call him or her. Some photographers catalogue all of the photos that they take. Some barely keep any. But it's worth asking.
Contact family, friends, and relatives. If there's one person who's held onto that fifth-grade photo of you, it's a relative. Call them up and ask if they'd be able to fish it out for you and let you borrow it.
Contact your school. If all you're after is an old yearbook photo, you'll be able to find back issues of your yearbook at your school. Ask your school about borrowing the book. Some schools are reluctant to allow an old yearbook to leave the building. Other schools will let you borrow it with a deposit.
Search online. There are now a few websites devoted to searching for old school photos from yearbooks. But beware that most of these sites charge a fee. And the reproduction quality may not be as high as the original picture.
Restore and digitize. Now that you've found it, back up your photos. If you have access to a high-quality digital scanner, use that to scan your photo, upload it, and print it. If not, there are plenty of photo services that can do this for you, with varying degrees of quality.
Return originals to their owners. If you've borrowed photos or yearbooks from anyone expecting to get them back, be sure to return them.