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.
On Reverse:
Indian Hut
at Yosemite
July 26, 1942
This for Mother & Dad
On Reverse:
Gr Pc Steinle and
son August
Derrence - Wilson area
Steinle Family
1918
On Reverse:
Nadine's
Great Grandmother (R)
Photographer:
Fresslar, Port Scott
On the Reverse:
A girl who worked
for Hoffman Mill office
and her Boy Friend
Taken 1915
On Reverse:
Irve and Rose McClelland
Great Uncle Brother of Charles
On The Reverse: :
Mr & Mrs Grisham
Paul Forsythe Esq.
1011 B. St.
Centralia,
Washington
Azo postcard design in use 1904 - 1918
On the Reverse
taken March 3, 1912
This azo postcard design in use 1904 - 1918
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Cant get enough? There's more!
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TURN IT OVER! THERE'S SOMETHING ON THE BACK
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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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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?"
