One a Day - Day One

There are thousands of old photographs in the Lost Gallery collection. Some were purchased especially for their content or theme; others just came along with the acquisition of an album, or a bag full of unidentified ephemera. Some of the photographs are recognized as treasure and are individually packaged in hard plastic slips or envelopes. Others are glued, several at a time to both sides of an album page. Some are packed tightly together like a deck of cards; others wander about loose in the bottom of a shoe box with dozens of others. There are those included with friendship greeting cards. Tiny photo booth snaps turn up in diaries and yearbooks. Occasionally a family historian recognizes their aunt or grandfather and wants the picture for their genealogy work. It is very gratifying to be able to return a photo to its family. The first question they ask is: “Where did you find it?” Each group is filed according to where they were found and each photograph is tagged with the date it was scanned. Many are scanned and grouped by subject on Flickr: Head and Shoulder Portraits, Children, The Beach and other subjects. On Lost Gallery the photographs are further sorted and presented by subject and content: Hats, A girl and Her Uniformed Man, Sitting on a Bumper, Aircraft and dozens of other groups. It is entertaining to view a group of photographs of people all in the same pose or all doing the same thing. It is a curiosity to find four or five photographs that are completely unrelated except that they were taken at the same location. Lost Gallery is presented Blog Style with new groupings and subjects added every month. The exception to the blog style is that back pages are updated with new finds in each posted subject. Re-visiting a page will often find new photographs in that subject.	Starting today Lost Gallery will be presenting a special month-long project. This project will present a photograph each day showing the same number of people as the day of the month. For instance, on the tenth, there will be at least one photograph with ten people in it, on the fifteenth, fifteen people. Since there are lots of photographs of just one person, presented here on the first day the month, are a dozen of the most popular in the collection. One Thousand Four Hundred visits.	The photograph below has been visited more than FOUR THOUSAND TIMES on Flickr. Why? The girl is unknown. But the car is a rather scarce one. It's a 1942 Chrysler. NO cars were made the following three years ... More than 1,200 visits. What is the story?
The photograph above was discovered only a couple years ago but already it has gathered almost THREE THOUSAND visits. I have no idea why; there's no car in the picture at all!	This one has been visited over two thousand times.	This charming photograph of a child has been visited two thousand times.
This wallet worn photograph of a sweetheart has been visited two thousand times.	This lovely photograph has been visited more than 1,600 times	Now I can understand this one. That's a 1929 Essex! It's been viewed more than fifteen hundred times.
This one is part of a set of found-negatives. They capture birthdays of this girl from one through seventeen. Although it was added only in 2006 it has had more than 1600 visitors.	1,300 visits.	1,300 visits

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