Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Turn it Over! There's Something on the Back! - March 2014




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.


portrait with fur
portrait

On reverse
Lyndell Faye
Boyles
1931



Portrait
Portrait

On Reverse:
Emma Roeder
March, 1931
Taken in
Dallas


Aviator in dramatic pose
Aviator (reverse)

On reverse:
June 1943


Couple
Couple (reverse)

On reverse:
John & Clara
Krahenguhl(?)


Man and boy
Man and boy

On Reverse:
About 7 or 8


Couple
couple reverse

On Reverse:
To Mr Mrs. W. Holley
With Best Wishes from
Mr Mrs Charles Seymore


Couple in Oval Portrait
Couple in oval portrait

On Reverse:
Rose Kickenbottom
Durffy Hyaat

This reverse also shows the impression of the next photograph in its stack where it was kept for perhaps decades without moving.


Two girls
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On reverse:
1 Ethel Stephens
2 Ruby
15 - 14
August 15, 1911

Miss Clara Lee
Kirkland
Archer City
Tex


Two women and a child
Two women and a child

On reverse:
From your
Sister
Zilpah
Madalian is on the
right she is a big
fat girl

Miss Anna
Omaha
NeB



Banning High School
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On Reverse:
Banning High School
Teachers
Left Mrs Lewering
Front
Cecil James
Right - ?



Excursion boat
Excursion boat

On Reverse
Local Excursion Boat



20120522 20140218 Wichita Falls en
20120522 20140218 Wichita Falls rev

On Reverse
From
Oleta Mae Muncy
to
Aunt Marta &
Family



Young Girl
Young Girl

On Reverse:
Hello Dear old
aunty and uncle
how are you all
we are well i
would love to
see you all by by
Cecil Eldred txt
Robert Little
Nacona
Tex
Rout - 4



Boy on a fake horse
Child on a fake horse

On reverse: David Lee Gilma Jr.



Four children and a mule team
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On Reverse:
Jr (or Jo) Raymond
Katy & Barbara


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All images are the property of Lost Gallery and the author. Permission must be granted for their use. All rights reserved.

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.

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WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
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"What are they doing?"

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