Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Turn it OVER! There's Something on the Back! November 2011





Very often, notations on the reverse of these found photographs are obscure or too brief or illegible. Most often there is nothing at all.

But now and then there is a message from the past that sparkles.

Back in March of 2009 LOST GALLERY had a full page of photographs and their very interesting reverse sides. There have been many new additions to the collection since then.

Here is a new group of those photographs with mysterious, funny and sometimes puzzling reverse sides; tiny bits of history, reaching out to us over decades and sometimes a century.




New Barn
New Barn


This is a snapshot I took of New Barn and the
Carters cottage house, this is where my father kept
his horses and the carters worked for father. I
played around here as a boy. It is called
New Barn but as a matter of fact-it-is
really old. School Farm lane where I was
born was built in 1705 A. D. nearly
230 years ago.
Grandpa



Our House
Our House Northland reverse


Our House
Tweed Road
Northland




Congregational Church
Congregational Church

Congregational Church
Throop Hampshire
England



Butler's Barn
Butler's Barn


Butler's Barn where I stopped.
This cottage has all modern improvements
except gas, electric light & telephone,
these can be had, telephone has reached
Lockerley, also the electric towers and wires
So soon Lockerly as I & my fathers knew
it will be but a memory, however thats
all the least, new times, new things.

John Butler 1293 A. D. never had a house as
good as this but this is named after him-



Church
Church (reverse)

Christian Science Church
Diversion and "I" St.
Mar 18/23

Below is a recent picture of the same building.

First from



Park

Wright's Park
Divison & I st's
Mar 18/23

Park


Boy in Buggy with reverse
Boy in Buggy reverse

BusterTh0mpson to years (your?)
Ma Well this is my pitchure(?)
in my bugie(?) I was sick
when this was made but
am well now i have
bin taking .666. for the
chills




Baby on Scale with Cat
Baby on Scale with Cat

Anyone want to take a stab at this one? I think I know "Para" and "Pepito" but that's about it.




RPPC man in uniform
reverse of Man in Uniform

I can't quite make out what it says.

It looks like:
Leslie Thompson
M(?) Ethel Shiphouse
Children
Texas in S A. (or maybe U. S. A.)
R;an. L.
(But it could be something else entirely)




Two sailors

Sefton in
Navy

Two sailors reverse


Auntie and Mother
Auntie and Mother



On Reverse:
Auntie & Mother.


Photographer:
D. A. Loomis
Fredonia, Kans.




Four Children

Jo Ann Winfrey
Donald Winfrey
Benny Jr Hawkins
& Butch
March 1946

Four Children reverse



Hobby horse and buggy
Cowboy and Buggy reverse

NRA stamp on reverse. This must be from 1935 or before. The National Recovery Administration was declared unconstitutional in 1935.



Joe
Joe

This Joe

Mrs. Lizzie Walters
Elk City, Oklahoma



Man with a camera and horses
Man with a camera and horses

Jugoslawien 69
(Yugslavia 69)?


Class

Lard
sugar
buitter
2 S W. 7 50 + 24
1 qt milk
cream
meat
S meat
c. Tomattos
matches

Incongruity

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Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half
You are probably not authorized to see these.


Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you!
completely unaware of the photographer
This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.


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THE KIDS Lesson one.
It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned.
Here are a few.
You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story, What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh

"What are they doing?"

2 comments:

  1. I see. It's "this Joe" which will forever leave us wondering about "that Joe."

    ReplyDelete
  2. Yes! And which Joe is this? Are they interchangeable? Will we ever know for sure?

    It always surprises me how many grammatical and spelling errors turn up on the backs of photographs.

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