Turn it Over! There's Something on the Back! - March 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.

On reverse
Lyndell Faye
Boyles
1931

On Reverse:
Emma Roeder
March, 1931
Taken in
Dallas

On reverse:
June 1943

On reverse:
John & Clara
Krahenguhl(?)

On Reverse:
About 7 or 8

On Reverse:
To Mr Mrs. W. Holley
With Best Wishes from
Mr Mrs Charles Seymore

On Reverse:
Rose Kickenbottom
Durffy Hyaat

This reverse also shows the impression of the next photograph in its stack where it was kept for perhaps decades without moving.

On reverse:
1 Ethel Stephens
2 Ruby
15 - 14
August 15, 1911

Miss Clara Lee
Kirkland
Archer City
Tex

On reverse:
From your
Sister
Zilpah
Madalian is on the
right she is a big
fat girl

Miss Anna
Omaha
NeB

On Reverse:
Banning High School
Teachers
Left Mrs Lewering
Front
Cecil James
Right - ?

On Reverse
Local Excursion Boat

On Reverse
From
Oleta Mae Muncy
to
Aunt Marta &
Family

On Reverse:
Hello Dear old
aunty and uncle
how are you all
we are well i
would love to
see you all by by
Cecil Eldred txt
Robert Little
Nacona
Tex
Rout - 4

On reverse: David Lee Gilma Jr.

On Reverse:
Jr (or Jo) Raymond
Katy & Barbara

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