Lost Gallery: Turn it over - There's something on the back

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:
Taken in May sure was
so hot I sunning my legs
Those are geraniums all along
the patio

On Reverse
This is
Clyde when
he was 8 months
old I guess I never
sent you any before

On reverse:
Lizzie these are
for you
Mother is getting
along fine

On Reverse:
Lester & Laurence Emery

On Reverse:
James P Hampton on
the left weight 19 lbs
Edwin Horton Hampton
on the right weighs 19 1/2 lbs
- - At 6 months old
Twins born April 28th 1887
Sons of
Mr and Mrs W. B. Hampton
Huntsville, Ala

Note:
With all this information available I was able to locate and return this lovely photograph to the family historian in the twins' family tree.

On reverse:
Edgar Homer &
Lem Maurear

On Reverse
Pierre, SD 1946
Bus and
?Russell
Shoemaker
Lived in a
little trailer
at station (gas)
in Pierre

On the reverse:
August 1, 1966
Jeffrey 6 months
old Uncle Frank
August 1, 1965

On the reverse:
Estella Getting Gestro
Gastes (not at all sure about this part.)
The Decapitation of
Dangerous Dan
McGrew

On reverse:
This is Peggy
& I after we
came down
from our air-
plane ride
This is the
plane we
went up in.
August 1942

On reverse:
"Pappy" #19
Herman August Clasen
Circa 1919
Presented to me
by his son Rich Clasen
Chicago Area
08-10-90
born in Chicago Ill
in 1889

On reverse:
May ,43
Highway to Algiers
is lined on both
sides like this.

original

enhanced

On Reverse:
Leslie Thompson
M(?) Ethel Shiphouse
Childress
Texas in S A. (or maybe U. S. A.)
R;an. L.
(But it could be something else entirely)

on reverse:
Sefton in
Navy

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.

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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.