Monday, May 5, 2014

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

As always, just click on a photograph to see a larger version.


Picnic Group
Picnic

On the reverse:
That is me with the white dress
Charlie on one side of me and
Emmas man on the other and
our dinners spread in frount
of us.
Taking July 4th
1901



Tintype couple
Tintype couple

On the reverse
Will Manning - Wife
Mrs Satie-Simiwgng-Manning
Formerly of Harrson Valley Pa


Woman and chair
Woman and chair

On the reverse
Mrs C. E. Manning
Wellsville No.3 (crossed out)
NY(crossed out)
Gennessee PA
R. F. D.
1 Crayon
Bust Measure
Remove Chair



Man and chair
RPPC man and chair

On reverse::
Lorenzo Mattison
Here is my
oldest suns
picture taken
he was 19 he is
29 now his mane.
is Lorenzo


Cabinet Card man.
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On the reverse:
F McKinney

note the photographer is
Photographer:
F. M. McKinley & Co.



Portrait of a young girl
Portrait of a young girl

On reverse
Miss Aline Straw
Highspire
PA.



Portrait
Portrait

On Reverse:
Claud Marvin
Step Son of
Will Manning

Aunt Louise


Woman with dog
Woman with dog


On reverse;

Sate Simmons

And the faint impression of the next photograph it was stored with.



Girl in Garden
Girl in Garden

On the reverse:
And Here
I am again


Girl and dress
reverse

On reverse

Auntie Bill



Dictionary illustrations

On reverse:
Right of Way Fence
Friday Evening November
17-1925 at 1:45 PM

and on the right:
Gladis Chesnut
Yellow Pine, LA

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Almost Nude
Almost Nude

On Reverse:
Almost Nude
Your big baby



Baby in wicker chair
Child in wicker chair

On the reverse:
Naoma Marie Lawson
Aunt Sallie



Baby in long smock.
(cropped slightly)
Baby in long smock.

On reverse:
From Harold E Manning
to
Aunt Sarah.



Cabinet Card Two Children
Two children

On the Reverse
From Charleton & Delight
(and below that very faintly)
To
Grand Pa


Two children
Two children

On the reverse:
My oldest sun
two children
childrens picture
From Renzo





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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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?"

4 comments:

  1. Fantastic images and messages. The ghost on Sate Simmons' photo is a neat effect.
    But what I really like is the way that the photos taken together create a creepy sequence of characters from peculiar to alarming that could make up the cast of a Hitchcock movie.

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    1. Thanks Mike Brubaker. Yes, there are some photographs of real characters on this page, in fact, I think one of them is a post mortem. There was another interesting "ghost" photograph back in the March edition of "Turn it Over!" http://lostgallery.blogspot.com/2014/03/turn-it-over-theres-something-on-back.html

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    2. I assume you mean Mrs. Manning? That would be really creepy. I think the sun is just making her close her eyes.

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    3. Yes, I prefer to think it was the sun too. It was a peculiar habit back in the late 1880's, photographing the deceased. When I learned of this tradition I went back through the GALLERY and found several that could be post mortem portraits. Yes, creepy.

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