Back Page - Donkeys

Donkeys. Okay, mules and donkeys and burros. We just don't give them their due respect. So here's a page of all the donkeys found in lost gallery.

No, this one is not part of the LOST GALLERY.

He is a sculpture from Artesania Rinconada

These two have been in the LOST GALLERY the longest.

Four girls on a donkey. Arnold, the donkey, did not find this amusing.

Simmons was always the epitome of fashion.

I think these two are both fake.

This one looks stuffed.

This obviously is a fake donkey, and not a very good one either.

Can't get enough? Watch this space! I'm sure more will turn up.

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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.

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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?"

Sepia Saturday - The Piano

The Sepia Saturday suggestion is a piano with pictures displayed. A piano was often a place to prop up a crop of family photographs for display. Most old photographs of a music room will feature at least one photograph somewhere in it.

This one, of course is not a found photograph. But we did find it in a dark warehouse/junk store, abandoned by its original owner(s). It is a water color sketch of an old upright piano, signed by "English,79". It hangs in our own music room where there is no real piano.

"Your Nephew JR."

Desmond couldn't play a note
but he could pose as if he could.

This portrait is part of a SERIES OF TWELVE found together in an antique mall in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

This is a rare one. It is printed on studio "proof" paper. The paper turns dark when exposed to light. The photographer could sandwich the paper with the negative and then expose it to the sun. No wet chemicals needed. Photographers could use it to make quick contact proofs to show customers. The prints would not last as they continued to darken each time they were exposed to light until finally the whole sheet was dark.

This is a slightly enhanced version.

Can't get enough? Here are a couple more pages about musical instruments:
Music Makers
Trombones

Now, run on back to the Sepia Saturday home page for some more arpeggios and trills.

Go back to THE MAIN INDEX PAGE

There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.
Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEX

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.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

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?"

What is Going On Here? - Page Five

There are portraits and action shots and there are landscapes and interiors. There are many photographic subjects. When we page through the albums we have various oo/ah reactions. Beauty and humor, memories and nostalgia; each photograph sparks it's own comment and reaction.

But here now is a collection photographs that make the observer ask just one question:

What is going on here?

Sometimes there's an answer, but sometimes not.

An old mine shack? Or is it a two-stall outhouse?

Is this a posed shot or a candid?

We don wanna be d'scovered.

There are five hands in this photograph.

A delivery system? How's he going to get on that bike?

Three maids and a wheel barrow. Sounds like a fairy tale doesn't it?

A photograph with carefully hand tinted socks and hats.

And watch this space! There's more to come!

Can't get enough?

Try some of the previous BACK PAGES!
What is Going On Here? - Page One
What is Going On Here? - Page Two
What is Going On Here? - Page Three
What is Going On Here? - Page Four
What is Going On Here? - Page Five (This One)

Go back to THE MAIN INDEX PAGE

There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.
Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEX

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.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

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?"

The Hostetter Search

Some time ago, in Wichita, Kansas, these two photographs were rescued from a huge heap of overpriced cabinet cards, cdv cards and curly snapshots. Finding two photographs that seem to be related in some way is always a bit special and these two were good examples. They included the same unusual name on their reverse.

While the name Hostetter is probably not all that uncommon, it's not like Smith or Jones, so finding it twice in the same pile of photographs is intriguing. It prompted a search on Ancestry.com to find the relationship of the two.

Here is a greatly simplified and edited tree to show the relationship of the two photographs. The two girls, Ivah and Rhoda, were sisters of William A. Hostetter's Brother's wife, Rebecca Ann Lucas. I'm not sure what that would make the relationship name. Wiki says the term would be Sisters-in-Law but not exactly or with an asterisk.

"Sisters of my mother Anna Lucas Hostetter"

This means that the inscription was written by one of the children of Samuel J. and Rebecca Ann (Anna) Hostetter, either Maye Hostetter (1900-1991) or her brother John Hostetter (1910-1992)

Finally, while I had all the facts handy, I decided to try to identify all the people in the William Hostetter family photograph.

Through a process of elimination and age comparison, here is my guess as to the identifications of the rest of that part of the Hostetter family.

The youngest pictured, Russell Jackson (1898 - 1964) appears to be less than a year old, putting the photograph session at about 1899.

Three more children:
Robert E. Hostetter (1900 - 1901)
Perry Allen Hostetter (1905 - 1905)
Edmond Hostetter (1907 - 1952)
had not been born yet.

Go back to THE MAIN INDEX PAGE

There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.
Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEX

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.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

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?"