Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Turn It Over! There's Something On The Back! - November 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.


Couple at teepee
Couple at teepee

On Reverse:
Indian Hut
at Yosemite
July 26, 1942
This for Mother & Dad



Man and child
RPPC Man and Child

On Reverse:
Gr Pc Steinle and
son August
Derrence - Wilson area
Steinle Family
1918



CDV two women
CDV portrait of two women

On Reverse:
Nadine's
Great Grandmother (R)

Photographer:
Fresslar, Port Scott



RPPC Boy and Girl
RPPC boy and Girl

On the Reverse:
A girl who worked
for Hoffman Mill office
and her Boy Friend
Taken 1915



Portrait of a cople

On Reverse:
Irve and Rose McClelland
Great Uncle Brother of Charles

Portrait of couple


Man and Woman in woods
Man and Woman in the woods

On The Reverse: :
Mr & Mrs Grisham
Paul Forsythe Esq.
1011 B. St.
Centralia,
Washington

Azo postcard design in use 1904 - 1918



RPPC couple
RPPC couple

On the Reverse
taken March 3, 1912

This azo postcard design in use 1904 - 1918



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Cant get enough? There's more!
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TURN IT OVER! THERE'S SOMETHING ON THE BACK
Then click "OLDER POSTS" at the bottom of each page.


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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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And for postcards try
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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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