Friday, July 1, 2016

Turn It Over! There's Something On The Back - Page 36




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.




Cabinet Card couple
Cabinet Card couple

on the reverse:
Papa's brother
Uncle Whig (J, A )
&
Aunt Millie
Churchman

Children
George
John (Father of George Franklin)
Will
Laura (Daughter Ann Mac Smith
Tom

Photographer:
Kelser
Newport, Arkansas


Mother and Child
Mother and child

On the Reverse;
Dorothy Faye Taylor
and Mother
Dorothy Faye at
2 1/2 Months old


RPPC woman and flower
RPPC woman and flower

On the reverse:
Elziabeth Campbell

"Elizabeth" probably


Girl sitting on a rock
Girl sitting on a rock

On the reverse:
To Aunt Nellie
from your Niece Nellie


Girl on porch
Girl on porch

On the reverse:
My Grand Daughter
Sheila Moore


CDV Young Man
CDV Young Man

On the reverse:
Jim Burrows

Photographer: Oscar Haines,
Colmbus, Kans.


Cabinet Card woman
Cabinet Card woman

On the reverse
Carrie Burrows

Photographer: I. M. Johnson
Columbus, Kansas


Cabinet Card woman
Cabinet Card woman


On the reverse:
Emma Burrows
dead now

Photographer: Oscar Haines
Columbus, Kanss


Cabinet card  Man
Cabinet Card Man

On the reverse:
To Julius Gerluzen(?)
October 23 1885
a. 76. shiedor (?)

photographer
J. M. Elliott
95 S High St
Columbus O


Boy with table
Boy and tble

Reverse:
Pete Tennis


Photographer's Wife

On the reverse:
Mrs J. H. Fitzgibbon

Photographer:
J. H. Fitzgibbon
116 South Fourth Street
St. Louis Mo.


Cabinet card portrait
Cabinet card woman

On the reverse:
R. S. A. Barnett
Farmington
Tex
R. W. Yates
Sherman, Tex

1K&M
1015 7 13

Photographer
Caradine
North Side Square
Sherman, Tex.



Cabinet Card woman
Ghost of a ghost

This is the reverse of a cabinet card that has been stored against another cabinet card for a long time and moved maybe only once. The image transfers from the front of one card to the back of the next one in the stack.


Cabinet
Cabinet card man

On the reverse:
NL Bruce

Photographer
Freeman
220 Main Street
Dennison, Texas


Woman
Woman Portrait

On the reverse:
Mary Howser (?)
2nd cousin to Mama
Neice of John and Jabes
Haning


Woman portrait
Woman

on the reverse:
Mattie Crabtree
Whitney
Tex.
To Mr. T. R. Atkins
Wetumka
I T
Papa's sister

(Note: I T stands for Indian Territory)


portrait young lady
Portrait young lady

On the reverse:
Lillian Shearer
Age 18 years

(probably cut down from a cabinet card size)


Woman sitting
Reverse of woman sitting on ground

On the reverse;
Miss Desiree Blackmaon
And her kittens


Young man on porch
Man on porch

On the reverse
Don't you think he is cute



Three girls

On the reverse:
Vera Amaus
Lilly Carlile
Flora Amaus



Three women with hats
Three women with hats


On Reverse:
Hello Eta, I arrived
home alright but
there is nothing doing
the big meeting is done
over with. this is one
of my pictures thought
I would send it as I haven't
any other postal. Mrs
Davidson Roff and Dena are here
Sure could like to go to Whiten
wright again! "Pull it again"
From Edna


RPPC Three Children
Three sisters and bows

On the reverse:
Mable and
Gargie and
Ella Caldwell
From Sallie
to Rosa
Jordan
Lane Oak Y Tex Ardmore Oklahoma


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.


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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?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh

"What are they doing?"

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