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.
On the reverse;
Why don't you
ever write?
Want you to get busy
You have a
merry xmas
Papa and Mamma
left this morning on
a visit, left Lyle and I
to keep house
to:
Mazie Kerr
Aurora
Nebr.
On the reverse:
B. O.
On the reverse
Mary
on the reverse:
Ellen atcher
On the reverse:
Cousin Mary Compliments
to Cousin
Wilhelmina Depp
photographer
Osborn
73 West Baltimore st.
Baltimore, Md.
On the reverse
Baton Rassu?
Photographer:
J. T. Richardson
Celeste, Texas
The stamp on the backs of some carte de visite photos was actually a tax revenue stamp which was used by the US government to raise funds needed to fight the Civil War.
Why do some old photographs have a stamp on the back?
On the reverse:
Hollister
Sikes
(illegible)
Nettie Porter
Billy Wood
Frankie Murphy
Joe Richard Hardy
Joanne Martin
Paul Sykes
On the reverse;
Old School Mates
of HC
1 Minnie Harkey Hooper
2. Bida Winn Cox
3. Oat Martein
4 Silas Maggard
On the reverse:
Virgue
&
Wilma
On the reverse:
Uncle Will
Harrington's
Ranch -
7 miles south
east of Hale
Center
On the reverse:
Please leave the lock of
hair out of the neck
and side of the head.
PS
Please leave the b----
off the dress and ---
watch cha ---
On the reverse (greatly enhanced)
-- -- -- --
--- Ave H
Houston
Texas
?get off at?
Two at Fam--- & Cap---
-06 Street
on the reverse:
Cora Dorsey's
New Hotel
Clarksville
photographer
Crockett Studio
Clarksville, Texas
On the reverse
Kansas City, MO
8-3-37
on the reverse
James Larry Davis
Howse & Son
Jan 1950
Commerce, Texas
reverse:
Linda Marie Sanerbrei - "Mitzie"
(possibly Sauerbrei)
age 3
on the reverse
Billy Weed
Aug. 1948
Reverse:
Robert Earl Newcomer
4 trs old Cleveland O
Born oct 4, 1920
Alliance, Ohio
Reverse:
This is Mildred taken last summer
Her dress wasn't that short the
wind was blowing and made
it look that way it was taken
in our front yard
On reverse
To Daddy from
Jr.
This is a picture
of my cloths
I made these
pictures
On the reverse:
Park Lane Hotel
Kansas City. MO.
Out apt. X
On the Reverse
Harry & Clark's
Grand Mother
Photographer
E. H. Porter
Sterling, Kans
On reverse
Paris Pardon Palmer
Photographer L. D. Judkikns
Bismark, DT
(Dacota Territory)
on the reverse:
Mrs John Helm 1895
third wife
Photographer
Alfred Baer
Baraboo, Wis
Cant get enough? There's more!
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TURN IT OVER! THERE'S SOMETHING ON THE BACK
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There are now more than 8,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery. Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEXBassingbourn 1944 
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 usually disappeared on the way home from the photo processing shop.
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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 
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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