Lost Gallery: Turn It Over! There's something on the back! July 2012

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 the decades and sometimes centuries.

On reverse:
One of the new large
750 class of engines now
used by the K. C. S. on
Heavener-DeQueen division
a third larger than the
700 class used when you
were here,
weight 532000
8/1/18

on reverse:
It ain't worth a darn
Ben

On the bluff
at sea share(?)
Of ardmore
the
baboons

Mrs. Bessie Tippit (?)

On reverse:
Ely Why did
you send this
back it
was back to
me and was

Family at the front of the house. (Enhanced)

family at the front of the house reverse

On reverse:
Mrs Don Rushing & Mrs
Lillie Friday & Mr
Friday
Mrs Friday's Baby

On the front:
The Adams delegation
It sure is fine. (under picture)

Did not know that I had changed so much that you
couldn't even recognize me. Yes I have a whole
series of them. The last postal I had from clifford
he said that he couldn't look
around in the room without
seeing me. Ask him if
they have gotten his
memerous for him to
cound now.
I am like the dutchman
was; when buiz(?) is dull I
haven't enought money to
go any place. and when it
is good am too busy to leave.
Sure do wish I could come
and eat some of Martha's
good cooking you can imagine
how much we do when
we are light housekeeping
but think of me somtimes when you are
(on reverse)
enjoying all of that
good eating
Nettie said tell you
and Cliff hello.
Myrtle

W. E. (?)rter (perhaps Foster) & Wife
Too
Wm & Mrs. W. H. Atkinson
Taken Sept 11 19 1903
Sllelm P U (?)

This one is not exactly on the reverse of the photograph as it is actually a slide. It is labeled: Tysinger & Robinett
at Whitehorse Cana

On reverse:
On reverse:
Doing something
I don't like much
but the cat likes
to see me work

This is Earl
washing

(This one and the next five were featured on a LOST GALLERY page examining Photographer and Artist Earl G. Hammock.)

On reverse:
This is
Earl and Ethel
before they
wer married

On reverse:
Earl
the yongest
boy he runs a
studo

On reverse:
This is Leonard
and Earl
My oldest and
yongest

Featured on a LOST GALLERY page about Photographer and Painter Earl G. Hammock.

On Reverse:
Sincerely your friend,
Earl Hammock
1915

Featured on a LOST GALLERY page about Photographer and Painter Earl G. Hammock.

On Reverse:
Earl Hammons (Hammock)
1915

Featured on a LOST GALLERY page about Photographer and Painter Earl G. Hammock.

The most popular photographs
An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

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

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

BACK TO
THE MAIN INDEX PAGE
Or try out the NEW
BACK PAGE INDEX

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography
The best FOUND PHOTOGRAPH sites on the web.
And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.

THE KIDS
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.