Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Turn it over! There's Something On The Back! - February 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.


Iced Water
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Actually this photograph was printed backwards. It has been corrected here.

On Reverse
George
Ted
Paulus
J. B.
Hubert
Jaye Georges
Baby Boy
he sure is a (-?-)
for Herbert


Four caught by itinerant photographer
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On Reverse:
Coming home from
skating mother, myself
Fran Sibew & daughter
Inge
Arosa, Jan. 1928


family pose with canes
Family pose ith canes

On Reverse:
Bad Manheim
(or something like that)


Group
Group

On Reverse:
This one you can
keep. got two,
keep the kids


Small boy RPPC
Small boy  RPPC

On Reverse:
Apr 6, 1918
Age 16 months
Winslow McKinney
To Grandma


Boy on Pony
Boy on Pony

On reverse:
Tim on his
pony Kinnets House
next door to our
mobile Home on
Old Bunk Road about 1956



Trombone
trombone reverse

On the reverse:
Oh, Johnny, Oh!
Little Acorn
A



School Girls
Oct 1936

On the reverse
Oct 1936



House
House

On reverse
The home of James Keaton
built in Munroe County
West Virginia 1780
My Great, Great, Great Grand Father.
J. C. Rhoades
My Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather
2nd J. C Rhoads son of Lawson E Rhoads.



House

On reverse:
Aunt Mary's
Summer
Home in
New Brunswick
Back View

House


The house.
The House

On Reverse:
The house
C. A. Kee (C. A. Klee)
Home


Scene with couple
scemn

On reverse:
Sept the 28 1902
everett Lo and Co Co
Hall W A Walker (Just a guess. What do you think?)

(across end)
Sept 28 1902 Everett


Lake and Mountains

On Reverse
looking through
mts. from Lake
Cresent
can keep.

Lake and Mountains


Portrait
Portrait (reverse)

On reverse
Jan 17, 1905. Geo. R. Fortney



Portrait of a young girl
Portrait of a young girl

On reverse
Miss Olive Straw
Highspire
PA.

I found her on Ancestry.com. Olive P. Straw (1901-1957) was born in was born and lived her entire life in Pennsylvania. She married Marlin Cletus Rouch (1900 – 1975) and they had one child Phyllis A. Rouch.

Note that the post card back can be dated to between 1904-1920's according to
Playle's Real Photo post card
identification site.
Metro Postcard site dates this card 1903-1905


The most popular photographs most popular, Family Group,
An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half
You are probably not authorized to see these.


Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you!
completely unaware of the photographer
This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.


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Monday, February 24, 2014

Album Page - From the School Yard


Leafing though unsorted piles of old photographs is a challenge sometimes. The photographs are often varying sizes, some flat, some curled, and loose or mounted. Connecting two photographs by content or perhaps the photolab's serial number is almost just luck. Occasionally, several are found still tacked to the album pages where they were carefully placed by their owner.

Here is one of those lucky finds. These are all from the same photo session; some young girls at the front of their school. Someone brought a camera.

Since consumer cameras often produced eight oblong photograph to a roll, (12 square ones) there are probably still three more from this moment at school, wandering about somewhere.

Here are five related photograph, some with labels. Both the original as-found copy and an enhanced version is included.

two girls
two girls

It looks like:
Lovessa & Margy Brubaker


Three Girls
Three Girls
Four girls
Four girls

Two girls at school
Two girls at school

The writing looks like:
Kathleen Wadham
Glady cooper

Two girls
Two girls



There are other album pages of photographs found in one way or another to be related photographs. Here are a few.
Dee and the Business School
Cleo and the Jodhpur Gang
The Girl's Locker Room
Outing for the Guys
Gloria and the Amateur Photographer
Laura
The Slumber Party

The most popular photographs most popular, Family Group, An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! completely unaware of the photographer This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

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.

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

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh

"What are they doing?"

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