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.

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
Tweed Road
Northland

Congregational Church
Throop Hampshire
England

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-

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

Below is a recent picture of the same building.

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

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

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

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)

Sefton in
Navy

On Reverse:
Auntie & Mother.


Photographer:
D. A. Loomis
Fredonia, Kans.

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

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

This Joe

Mrs. Lizzie Walters
Elk City, Oklahoma

Jugoslawien 69
(Yugslavia 69)?

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

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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.

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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.

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

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

"What are they doing?"