Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Turn It Over! There's Something On The Back! - Page 31



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, sometimes a century.


Man and Woman Portrait
Man and Woman Portrait (reverse)

Anyone have any idea what this one says? The date seems to be 1935.



Smart set
Smart set

Anyone have any idea what this one says? The date on this on seems to be 1936



Mother and child
Mother and child.

On the reverse:
3 1/2 mo old, 10 lbs, 8 oz.
Have one taken in a little
chair you can see him better
but you can see how I look with
a baby and will get some more
finished of the others.



Two young women
Three young women

On the reverse:
Left to right
Me, Phyllis/ a friend
and Pat (My Roommate
background is one
of the six columns
adorning the campus
me is Yvonne
Murray



Man a the beach
20141029 20140824 Wichita Falls006 rev

On the reverse:
This picture was taken
sumer before last I haven't any
late ones of him. he will be
23 years old in November the
16. this was taken by the
lake in Chicago.



Man taking a stand
Man and stance

On the reverse:
The hill you can see over
the unfinished barrack
behind me is north
of our camp


Merry Widow Hat
Widow's Hat

On the reverse:
Miss Flora M. Brown
R F D #4
Easton, PA
12/3-09
Dear Flora
I am wailing
this postal at 3 oclafs (?). And about
coming sat I will call early
in the evening if the weather
aint to rough I am going to
refost (?) of a night from
your Truest Friend V A, S.



Young Girl
Young Girl

On the reverse:
Dear Cousin, How
are you. by this time I
hope this will find you
and Grandpa lots better
you had better come
to kansas too. I don't
think you will know
Pearle I don't blieve I
ever saw her look so fat
and well. We are pappering
We poppered o rooms and
House & Mare. this picture
is splated a little But
not on the picture. You
might send me one of
yours. Well I must Ring
off. Answer Soon Your cousin
Ethel L. W. ( ?)



Woman on a horse.
Woman on a horse.

On the reverse:
Put this in your garden
to keep the rats out. The horse
look alright but me it's Emmy



Woman and porch swing
Woman and porch swing

Bernice Brown
Mother named
me after her
Bernice



Woman in Garden
Woman in Garden

On reverse:
My Mother
Kathryn Calhoun



Woman on a Rock
Woman on a rock.

On reverse:
Ann Baker at
Copper Springs



Girl sitting at water's edge
Girl at water's edge

On Reverse:
me - 1923
Les Cheneaux
Mich.



Girl and Fur
Girl and Fur

On Reverse:
If you look at
nothing but the
coat it's not such
a bad picture
cover up the upper
and lower extremities


Woman in Hat
Woman in Hat

On Reverse
Mrs. Healy of Healy's
Terrace in her cactus
hat.



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.


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.


BACK TO
THE MAIN INDEX PAGE
Or try out the NEW
BACK PAGE INDEX

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography
The best FOUND PHOTOGRAPH sites on the web.
And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.

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?
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"What are they doing?"

Monday, September 21, 2015

Album Page - Not so lost, just unknown


Since I collect (rescue) old, abandoned photographs as a hobby, I sometimes forget that I have old family photographs that are not abandoned at all.

They are not lost; they have just not been seen for fifty years.

Here are five old Polaroid Swinger photographs.

I believe they were taken late May 1968.
There were typically eight photographs to a roll of Swinger film so perhaps there are three more prints from this event somewhere.

20091125 Bobby 03
20091125 Bobby 02
20091125 Bobby 01
Bobby
20091125 Bobby 04

And typically, the Polaroid Swinger turned out some bad shots. Maybe the other three frames missing from this roll were just thrown out. I don't suppose I'll ever know.

These photographs are just about the only memory I have of this event from nearly 50 years ago. So technically poor shots or not, that makes them very valuable. They hold a special place. They are a bookmark on a very special time. If it were not for these photographs, I probably would be unable to remember it at all.


Bassingbourn 1944 384th Bomber Group, B17 landing
Long lost negatives taken during the winter of 1944-45 at Bassingbourn AAF base in England.

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.


And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
POSTCARDY
And see what's going on over at
Sepia Saturday!

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?"

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Sepia Saturday - Laundry Day


The Sepia Saturday Suggestion
for this week hints at the
Laundry Day!



So today, let's review the laundry that is piled up in LOST GALLERY!

My friend over at Tattered and Lost suggested this for a LOST GALLERY category back in 2010.

wash day blues 02
wash day blues 03


Two horses
Dog, shadow, Laundry

Wash day blues
...He's so ambitious, he even sews.


Of Love
Love and Laundry
wash day blues 08
wash day blues
“This is the last time,” Dixie told herself.
“I know, I know. That’s what I said last time.
But this is really the last time.
When I grow up I’m gonna marry an
appliance salesman or a nudist.”

Laundry day

wash day blues 01
Yikes! Somebody stole all my clothes!


Laundry day
Henson sort of enjoyed laundry day.
But he liked running with
the rest of the Texas Rangers too.
(I don't know why this photograph is so popular.)
Love and Laundry
Love that laundry

Laundry and Saddle Shoes
Laundry and Saddle Shoes

Love and Laundry
Boy and Wagon
Pretend
Lurker Laundry
The Laundry Lurker

Seven Women
Only a clothesline pole in the background.

Child in a stroller
Love under the clothes line.
Only clothes pins (pegs) in this one.
Girl in a wagon

Two children and a dog and a lurker
Two children and a dog and a lurker


On the reverse:
I want to know
how much bigger
Willie looks to the
side of Jerrold this
Boy is some pumpkin
in to everything
Nellia said this eaaning(evening)
He climbs up on the
table in to the slofrbu(slop bucket?)
ect(?), bet you can laugh when
you get this picture kiss
Gerrold for me affivesn (arriving)
soon with Love to all
Mother



Now return to the Sepia Saturday home page and see what else is flappin' in the breeze!

Bassingbourn 1944 384th Bomber Group, B17 landing
Long lost negatives taken during the winter of 1944-45 at Bassingbourn AAF base in England.

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.


And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
POSTCARDY
And see what's going on over at
Sepia Saturday!

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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