The Wallet Worn Portrait

Here are photographs that spent their lives tucked in a safe place in a wallet or purse.

They were there because they were precious to someone. Most photographs communicate a bit of love and care but these tattered examples were prized possessions, with special meaning for someone.

Here are the wallet-worn photographs of someone very close ...or very far away.

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Okay. Considering most of these treasures are of women in bathing suits, these two are a bit odd.

It is not surprising at all that many of the wallet worn portraits found in LOST GALLERY were from a photobooth. The pictures were small, quick, last-minute and easy to store in a pocket of a wallet. They were often a memento of that last time together, or sometimes an inexpensive token to be included in a letter.

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Bassingbourn 1944 Discovered! Long lost negatives taken during the winter of 1944-45 at Bassingbourn AAF base in England.

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?"