Atlantic City - The Beach

The beach is a popular place for the camera. There are lots of photographs of people at the beach.

Due to recent events on the east coast of the US, I started wondering if there were any pictures of the beach front at Atlantic City in the LOST GALLERY archives. I was surprised to find several. There are some where the location is identified on the photograph itself. Then there are several that MIGHT have been taken at the famous Atlantic City beach, but they are unidentified.

Can you identify any of them?

I have numbered these. If you recognize any of the locations, just leave a comment including the number of the photograph that you can identify. Thanks!

Let's start with the ones from the LOST GALLERY collection that have been identified in some way as being located at the Atlantic City Beach.

(1) This one is labeled "A. City, June 1920"

(2) This is identified on the reverse.

(3) This is identified on the reverse as well as on the boat.

(4) This is identified on the reverse.

(5) This is identified on the reverse.

(6) This is identified on the reverse.

(7) This one is identified on the reverse.

(8) This one is identified on the reverse.


(9) This one is identified on the reverse.

(10) This one is identified on the reverse.

(11) This one is identified on the reverse.

(12) This one is identified on the reverse.

(13) This one is identified on the reverse.

(14) This on is identified on the reverse.

(15) This one is identified on the reverse.

(16) This one is identified on the reverse.

(17) This one is identified on the reverse.

(18) This one is identified on the reverse.

(19) This one is identified on the reverse.

Not much visible in the background of these two but they are in the same series as #20

(20) This one is identified on the reverse.

(21) This one is identified on the reverse. This is a different series but almost exactly the same camera position as #20

(22) This one is identified on the reverse.

That's all of them that have been identified so far as being on the Atlantic City, NJ beach.

Can you identify the locale of any of the rest?

(23) Unidentified Beach

(24) Unidentified Beach

(25) Unidentified Beach

(26) Unidentified Beach

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Turn It Over - There's Something on the Back! The Twins

Here's a special page about a single photograph with LOTS of information on the back.

Here are twins; a fine cabinet card, rescued from a junk pile. Just look at those faces.

On Reverse:
James P Hampton on
the left weight 19 lbs
Edwin Horton Hampton
on the right weighs 19 1/2 lbs
- - At 6 months old
Twins born April 28th 1887
Sons of
Mr and Mrs W. B. Hampton
Huntsville, Ala

(Embossed at bottom on the front)
Photographer:
F. Collins
Huntsville, Ala.

Eventually James P. Hampton turned up in a 1900 Census and then again in 1920, both entries listing the right birthdates and locale and a William Burt Hampton listed for father. His mother, according to the same census was Jennie Lula Payne.

Then I found a 1928 marriage record for James P. documenting his wedding to Winnie Hampton.

He appears again in the 1930 Census and there is a death certificate which shows he died in 1961 at age 74.

Pretty conclusive. So what’s missing?

His twin.

No Edwin Horton Hampton turns up in any of the census listings. Everything else matches, just no twin.

Finally, in another family tree I learn something new. This tree says that Edwin Burton Hampton apparently died 15 Jan 1899.

So, since the baby was born after the 1890 census and died before the 1900 census, there is no record.

Update!
Here is part of a message I received on Ancestry.Com.

"Weren't they precious, handsome babies! Thank you so much for sharing this. I know they were the children of William Burt Hampton and Jennie Lula Payne, grandchildren of Dr. John Placebo Hampton. I know that Edwin, apparently the one on the right, died 15 Jan 1899. That's enough to break your heart, isn't it?

I am a descendant of (the twin’s Grandfather) Dr. John Placebo Hampton's brother, Manoah Bostick Hampton, Jr. I am in touch with a direct descendant of Dr. John P. Hampton, however, and will make sure he sees this.

Thank you again so much. Virginia."

She is now trying to make contact with cousins on the John Placebo Hampton side of the family to find a family historian.

So it looks like the twins will find a permanent home.

Another update from Virginia!
"You won't believe this, but Dr. James E. Hampton died about 2 weeks ago. James was James P. Hampton's only child. He left 5 grown children, and we are trying to get in touch with one of them. He seems to have been a truly remarkable man.

You can read his obituary HERE

There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.

The most popular photographs
An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half
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Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you!
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Or try out the NEW
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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?"

Turn It Over - There's Something on the Back! November 2012

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 and sometimes centuries.

Can't get enough?

Here are some other pages featuring sometimes common, sometimes strange messages on the reverse of rescued photographs.
Bertha and Katie
August 2012
July 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
Earl G. Hammock
December 2011
November 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011

On reverse:
Vella &
Levi Hay
Joanna Boles
Brother
Made in Dallas
Assembly

On reverse:
Bertha Patton
Katie Martin

Berthe Stearns

On reverse:
This is Glenn and I
By the Lake and our
House in the distance
that we was living at.

(Grammar was obviously not her favorite subject.)

On reverse:
Earl Bostick

Photrographer:
G. S. Thompson
Dublin Texas

(From Ancestry.com: Holmes Earl Bostick was born 27 Feb 1915 and died 07 Mar 2002
Father was Chesley Butler Bostick (1856-1957) and mother was Mattie Maude Mooney (1873-1950, both of Alabama.)

On reverse:
WIlliam Nyquist No 1
(???????) No 2
Oscar Carlson
Gust Lilja No 3
Joe Nyquist No 4

On reverse:
Gordon Wingate
Harry Wingate
James O'Connel
Bruce Harrington
Harlow Trescott
Richard Clancy
2nd row
Leon Voster
Dana Colingrove
Jimmy Homet
John O'Neal
Paul Heath
Acker Smith
Richard Homet
John Cole
Charles Brown
George Shuster
3rd row
Alice Phillips
Hazle Cole
Agnes A.
Margorie Vosler
Marlyn Ward
Marie Thomas
Betty Jane Douglas
Olitta Morse
Evelyn Benson
Joyce Temperato
Helen Redman
Teacher
Miss Snyder

On reverse:
W. E. (?)rter (perhaps Foster) & Wife
Too (For)
Wm & Mrs. W. H. Atkinson
Taken Sept=11=1903
Sllelm P U (?)
or perhaps Salem PA

On the front, embossed at bottom, barely visible: W. P. Young, Columbia, Tenn.

On Reverse:
Top
Joseph Reese civil war
Seneca Reese Athens Georgia
Jesse E. Reese Pana Ill - Georgia
Bottom
Egvert Reese Chicago
L. D. Reese Crestor Ill
William Reese (half brother) Proffessor Kansas
Reunion held at Jesse E. Reese home
1912

On reverse:
Long Beach Cal
Sept 7th 1926
Great Grand Mother
Ida May McGiffin
Great Grand son
James Webb Powell Jr.

Two names, two different generations, two generation apart.

I found Ida May McGiffin (1855-1934), but I haven’t discovered her maiden name yet. She and David G. McGiffin (1848- ) married in 1873. I can find only one child, Edna T. McGiffin (1874- ).

Edna T. (1874- ) married Albert M. Leitzell (1876- ) and they had only one child that I can find. Her name was Velma Leitzell (1899-1995). In the 1930 Census, Ida May McGriffin (1848- ) then 70 years old, was living with Edna T. and spouse Albert M. Leitzell and is listed as mother-in-law to the head of the household.

In 1917 daughter Velma Leitzell (1899-1995) married Webb J. Powell (or J. Webb Powell, depending on the census) (1896- ). They had two children: One daughter they named Edna A. Powell (1920- ) and one son named James Webb Powell (1921-1981).

On reverse:
To Sharon
from
Dorothy
P. S. you are an ugly
little gril
& stay that way.
Dot Luttle

On reverse:
This is me and Miss
tudlewink
This is Lees
Birtha
Raberson
Aunt Megs
Bertha & baby that died

On reverse:
Aunt Meg & Uncle
Tom
give t his to Aunt
Mags kids if you
want to

Received your
package all O. K.
Martha sends thanks
for same. She is
busy using some
of the stuf/things now
making dol dresses(?)
Dear Mother find
enclosed a little
Xmas present
from Martha and I
Martha and Marg Wen(?)
both have the
grip, but improving
Lots of love to
you both from us
all. Avelitte and Martha

On reverse:
this is a crowd that were
at our house. quite
a bunch of cute
little kids. Mrs
anderson taken the
picture. That is her
baby I am holding.

There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.

The most popular photographs
An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

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.

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
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?"