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.
reverse:
Henry? Franzen Homestead
in Idaho
To:
J. H. Franzen
Moundridge
Kansas
% High School
on front
No Place Like Idaho!!!
On the reverse;
Grandma Calhoun
&
Earl Palmer
On the Reverse:
Harold Hauling Ice
in Dawson
On Reverse:
Mrs Whalen
frying steak the
day we visited
cliff dwellings
On the reverse:
Frank Potter
135 N Ave
Connellsville
PA
This is a picture of
(all this is black on black, too faint to show in a scan.)
on the reverse:
On a picnic on a mountain stream
Clair & Fred K. C.
On reverse
Guess Clair started
to make a
monkey face
for Uncle Bo
and didnt change
her mind
much
lo
On the reverse:
Mae I Will send you this
for your past album. I believe
you said you had one these
are my boys. You may have
your choice when they get big.
Post card design in use 1906 - 1913
Postcard design in use 1904-1918
On the Reverse:
Aunt Adeline
Uncle Les Freeman
his wife
Daughter Clo.
On Reverse;
Five days old -
with nurse in
hospital -
Susan Lucile
for
Grandma Precious
Clair Riley Baby
On the reverse:
This is
Baxter, and
Virginia Brown
Roys Son and
Daughter
On reverse:
Aunt Norine holding
Kathrines baby.
(really a guess)
Teresa 6 weeks old
On reverse;
8-31-35
one for you &
" for Artie
Grand dad Ben (?)
On reverse:
Cute expressions - Ha
Uncertain about this one.
I think there is
"I had" and
"tell him I am"
The rest I can't decipher.
Cant get enough? There's more!
Click Here:
TURN IT OVER! THERE'S SOMETHING ON THE BACK
Then click "OLDER POSTS" at the bottom of each page.
Go back to THE MAIN INDEX PAGE
There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery. Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEXThe 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.
Dee and the Business School 
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
"What are they doing?"
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