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.

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.

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Bassingbourn 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 disappear 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?"

Frau Fritz Wassermann

These 52 pictures came in one package from an Ebay purchase in 2006.

Sorting them was a chore. Fortunately most of them are dated and some have locations noted. The name Frau Fritz Wassermann occurs only once but it is on the reverse of a passport picture along with what appears to be the Date of Birth: 20.11.19. The pictures date up through 1958 and one that is possibly 1974. She lived in nazi Germany.

Note, originally I thought the name was "Bassermann" because of unfamiliar script.
What can you tell about her story?

These photographs were originally presented here back in 2007 as a slide show. The slide show script stopped working properly recently so the page has been revised to a scrolling page of all of the photographs.

Some time back, LOST GALLERY looked for Frau Wasserman on Ancestry.com but found nothing conclusive. A Hans Helmut Wilhelm Fritz Wassermann was found at about the right age born in the right place in Germany, but nothing else was found about him.

Go back to THE MAIN INDEX PAGE

There are now more than 8,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.
Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEX

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.

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
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?"