Working with old photos

I have lots of old photos from my family. Most are over 70 years old. Trying to understand how to improve them. My question concerns the aging process. I have lots of photos that appear light and/or brownish in color. I do not know if they were originally black and white and just faded into a tannish brown or whether that was a way of processing photos 70 years ago or so.
This is the kind of photo I am referencing.
thanks
tim
This is what i am referencing

Often you can do wonders on an old faded or yellowed picture by simply running Auto Levels, Auto Color Correction, or a combination of both. Here is one I did:
Auto Levels and Auto Color Correction yielded this:
(I did some other corrections to remove scratches and speckles)
Here are the same corrections with your picture:
Of course there are lots of ways to make further improvements: remove scratches, sharpen, add a frame, convert to sepia, etc.

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