Digikam as archive of historical photos

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Hello Hanspeter,

I also use digiKam for an archive of historical as well as current photos. I store my photos in digiKam by folder year, then sub-folder month, then sub-folder day, and like you, I have photos scanned from long ago where the month or day are unknown. Sometimes the specific year is not known precisely. These photos I store in the year folder. I use tags for every photo to contain the presumed year of the photo, so I can search quickly on the tags for a year.

The search tab on the left side bar is very powerful and can easily search for photos between years using metadata, or caption contents, or tags, etc. It should be easy to set up searches like you want.

Jay Rutherford


On Sat, Jan 24, 2026, at 10:25, Hanspeter Halle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we want to used digikam for an archive of historical photos. For these 
> an exact date can seldomly be given, only a time range can be guessed. 
> It would be great, if this range A) could be specified in a compatible 
> way and B) could be taken into account in searches. For example when 
> searching for photos between 1950 and 1959 we would like to find those 
> with a time range of 1945-1955 and those with 1958-1962. Has anybody a 
> solution for this?
> 
> 
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