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:
Uncle Dick
Photographer:
The Canvas
operated by
Vandike & Onderkirk
On the reverse
Sun. June 9, 1929
14 years old
On the reverse:
Sun. June 9, 1929
14 years old
Osva (crossed out)
Orval Rexroat
on the reverse:
Orval Rexroat
On the reverse:
He thinks he is some
body - and he is so
Mary Jo thinks
Photographer
Backstrom
Temple and Cameron
Texas
On the reverse:
Pearl
newlyweds
Mr. & Nrs. W. H. Morris
Father's Name
William Henry Morris, SR
Sara Virginia Pearl Fletcher
Mama was 14 yrs when
she married Daddy and
he was 19 yrs
Fake holdup
On reverse:
Davis SoM 2/c Ill
Carroll PhM 2/c NY
Weiss F 1/c NY
Note: the information is different on the front.
on the reverse:
Mary Ella Maxwell Locker
Cousin Alice Sqires Mauldin
Uncle Jeff Allen
Great Grandma Maxwell
on the reverse
E B Henley
Photographer
Chambers
Brownwood, Tex.
On the reverse:
Jeffery RM 2/c Fla
Hows GM 3/c Tenn
Damico S 2/c Conn
Stempirn Momm 2/c N.Y.
on the reverse:
Robert L Evans
James Bryan Lewis
Photographer
Elite studio
109 West High Ave.
Oskaloosa, IA
On reverse:
Davis S 2/c Conn
strong F 1/c Kentucky
on the reverse;
Atlantic Fleet Steaming
out of the Hudson River
for San Francisco via
Panama Canal. 6 or 8
Vessels in a row
Jane
on the reverse
My kitchen, pretty
nice isn't it?
on the reverse:
Harbor and Parliament Bltd
First thing you see on entering
Victoria, B. C. Canada
On the reverse:
This is a Korean guard house
On the reverse:
These are some of the native
tombs on Okinawa. They bury
their dead inside these tombs, which
are supposedly built in the shape
of a womans womb & represents
a second birth c I didnt know a
womb was shaped like that did you?
On the reverse:
Gilt Frame
No 66 Gilt frame
same as 1st order
same as 1st order
1 copy crayon
WJ Schwartz, Hanover, Kans
on the reverse:
Taken last
summer before
I had my
hair bobbed
at my uncle
Georges Farm
near Malvern.
Friend in Clarinda
Iowa
on the reverse:
Vivian Swanson
Mable &
Tony, Brother to Geo.
Swanson
reverse:
Irene Swanson
Fred Swanson daughter
brother & Geo. & Reuben
Milton, Joe
Ester & Stella
On the reverse:
I must of seen a dress
I wanted sure a sad
looking pair eh
On the reverse:
Barnies Girl
Pattie Pie
on the reverse:
Dear Cousin,
I am sending
you a picture of
myself and Mama
Webbie Lou
On the reverse:
Jane Nay
Louise Converse
age 18?
423 Maple
Alva Oklahoma
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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! 
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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?"
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