Four Found Photographs at a Picnic

Here are four picture found together. Three of them are clearly related because the same hatted girl is in them. The fourth of the man sitting on the picnic table is only related by the photo studio identification stamp on the reverse making it at least from the same roll of film.

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Back Page - The Big Smooch

This seemed like as good a time as any to assemble this page. I have been thinking of collecting all the big, fat kisses together and here at last, they are.

Muah, buss, smack, peck, smooch, suck face, XXX, snog, *, beso, First Base, Yankee Dime, canoodle.

Or as Louis Armstrong once said, “The touch of your lips all wrapped up amongst mine”

(Yeah, I know the KISS album cover doesn't really qualify as a "found photograph" but it begged me and I just couldn't say no. Besides, the incongruity appealed to me.)

This one is my favorite. I acquired it in a batch of pictures all apparently belonging to one woman.

Here is one of the happiest faces I have found in a long time.

	She is in most of the photographs in this "found" batch of old prints. They date from the 1940's and do tell a bit of a story. There was nothing noted on the reverse of any of the photographs but there are lots of landmarks, lots of people. No identity. So, I had to make up the names "Holli and her friend "Thelma." They have glamorous smiles and lots of clothes.
She just looks like a Holli, maybe “Hollywood”. Holli dominates a set of 116 pictures found all in one bunch from an estate sale in Johnson City, New York. I posted the whole set originally in August of 2008. Someday I hoped, someone would recognize something and at least establish a location.

Then, in June of 2009 I found another batch of photographs from an estate sale in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You can imagine my moment when I saw “Holli” again looking up at me from the stack, about 400 miles from the first group and ten months later.

I was able to coordinate some of the photographs by means of the photo lab’s series stamps on the reverse of many of them. Others matched in physical details of the prints. Six photographs, unrelated in any other way, have a light red stain at the edges showing they have been stored in the same place for a long time and thus linking them together. A few of the photographs in the Pennsylvania batch must have been taken on the SAME ROLL of film as the New York batch. From the clothing and locations, obviously some were taken the same day, perhaps only minutes apart. So now there are 63 more photographs of our Holli, her friends and her time.

One thing stands out in the Pennsylvania group. There is ONE photograph with a date on the reverse. November 22, 1943. Holli stands on her toes to give her man in uniform a big smooch. It must have been a special moment for them.

In the FLICKR SET I have designated each item as New York Source or Pennsylvania Source in the tags to show where each photograph was found. In addition I have noted the origin in some of the captions.

Our Holli was a popular girl, perhaps a USO volunteer. She loved the beach and the sun. Her bright smile probably made her an instant friend to anyone she met.

HERE IS THE ENTIRE SET. Look carefully at these photographs. What do you think is the story?

But I digress. Here are the other kisses from LOST GALLERY.

At this date, there are only nine found photographs in this category. There will be more.

It's not quite a kiss yet, but it's gonna be!
(If they can get those noses sorted out.)

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Four Generations

Here is baby Richard Groff Dyer-Hurdon (08 Jun 1916 – Dec 1955). His mother, top right is Sarah Groff (09 Feb 1888 – Jan 1976). Bottom right is Sarah’s mother, Jennie Partington Killman (Mrs. John Michael Groff), born about 1860.

The lady on the left, holding Richard, is shown as “Aunt” Sarah. I can’t find her.

The notation on the bottom of the photograph says “4 generations” and three generations are quite clear. Logically then, this “aunt” would be the sister of one of the eight, fourth generation, great-great-great grandparents. I searched all eight of them and found no sibling Sarah. Records back that far sometimes get rather sketchy but I found strong family trees for all eight. But there was no one that could be called a fourth generation “Aunt” Sarah.

The only Sarah I could find is Jennie Partington Killman’s mother, Sarah Killman (1833-) but she would not be an aunt, she would be a great grandmother and a direct line to Richard Groff Dyer-Hurdon.

So perhaps “Aunt” Sarah is just a term of endearment. Or perhaps Sarah was the aunt of the person making the identification and was not Richard’s aunt at all.

That would make a straight line. Richard's mother is Sarah Dyer-Hurdon. Sarah's mother is Jennie Killman. Jennie's mother is Sarah Killman. That makes a neat "4 generation" photograph.

I found the photograph in Fort Smith, Arkansas. I think I will see if I can find the "niece" or "nephew" that might have made the notes. Almost all of the family I've looked at so far stayed in the Buffalo, New York, area.

On reverse:
Richard Groff Dyer-Hurdon
age 4 months.

(This photograph apparently was taken in October of 1916)

Photographer:
De La Franier
440 Main St.
Buffalo, New York
(embossed on front)

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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?"

Out of the Darkness - Enhancing Old Tintypes - A Set from a Bag

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

Today's rescued photographs are all tintypes. All were found in one junk store in a baggie. Some have stickers with information on the reverse, others do not.

Are they connected? Or were they just all in the same bag. What do you think?

Here are tiny bits of history, reaching out to us over decades and sometimes centuries.

On the reverse:
Albert Hall
Ada (Friend)
Wilson

Nothing on the reverse of this one.

On reverse:
(Not legible)
M
ri
ithe
(possible)

This one has been enlarged a bit. The original is very tiny; only 1 inch by 1.5 inch.

on reverse:
Susie Dusal Tyndall
Mary Friend
sister

Nothing on the reverse of this one.

On reverse:
Right to left
Louese McDanel Tyndall
Taylor Tyndall
Mary E Friend Tyndall

There was a sticker with some information on it apparently, but it is completely obscured now.

On reverse:
Franklin A
Tyndall
Mary youngest
Brother

On reverse:
I don't know if this
Ruby Du?ral or
Rosie Tyndell

This one was not in the bag with the above examples.

It is almost completely faded. It apparently wasn't a good example in the first place. The subjects or the camera moved during exposure, the development process was mishandled and there is a large finger print included.

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Here are some other pages about TINTYPES
Out of the Darkness - Enhancing Old Tintypes - December 2012 (This one)
Out of the Darkness - Enhancing Old Tintypes - May 2012
Out of the Darkness - Enhancing Old Tintypes - August 2011
Out of the Darkness - Enhancing Old Tintypes - April 2011
Out of the Darkness - Enhancing Old Tintypes - February 2011 (2)
Out of the Darkness - Enhancing Old Tintypes - February 2011

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Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you!
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And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
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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
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?"