Those Talking Pictures - Dorothy Parker said ...

Okay, Mommy. I'll sit here. Just stay in sight.

This place smells funny. I can't see Dolly.

Is this going to tickle? What's that noise?

That light scares me. Can I hold Dolly now?

While you were out:
Several new additions were made to
the BACK PAGE called
DOROTHY PARKER TOLD ME SO
Time to catch 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.

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.

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?"

Back Page - The Office

A fellow abandoned-photograph-rescuer over at ONE MAN’S TREASURE wrote and posted a fine page about the look of the office in old photographs, illustrated of course with found photographs of office environments with a man at a desk.

A fine idea for a category! I looked through the Lost Gallery collection for things related to work and the office and stacked up a few examples. Since I don’t have as many fine examples of just a man sitting at a desk, I expanded the category to include office equipment and paperwork.

And here are a few with just a typewriter showing but not really an office setting.

Most of these appeared also on a page back in 2010 I called
THE TYPEWRITER - A MODERN ANTIQUE

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.

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?"

Those Talking Pictures - Up a Tree

After a long and profitable career in counterfeit soap bars and pop bottle top hoarding, Willard and Daphne Carcoat were finally apprehended hiding out in the kitchen of the house were they had lived for more than 60 years.

Sheriff Helmunt Fleetwood and his deputy Rover (coatless) had no patience with the system and volunteered to shoot the prisoners on the spot. He was assured the ruthless counterfeiters would get a fair trial and the criminal's shoes would go to the sheriff anyway.

There are three new additions to the BACK PAGE called
UP A TREE!

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?"

Turn it over! There's something on the back! April 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.

On reverse:
Sonya
P. S. Hope this
helps you to
Remember me.

On reverse:
Dear Aunt Mary Lou(?)
Me and Jab are
dirty but dont you
think we look cute
The man tried to make me
smile but I wouldn't do it.
You and Uncle Grady
be sure and come this
week and next time you
get sick be sure and
telephone my mama and
we will come.
Well I close
Goodbye
your loving niece
Matte Dale
(upside down)
Will send picture of (?)
I think she's
awful pretty

On Reverse
Mrs Kidd &
Mary Lou
1913

(The real question is: How did they get IN there?)

On Reverse
Mary Lou &
Grady
1913

"One of Dad's
girls
Popa's girlfriend before
he married Nannie-
waiting for Esther to
grow up. He decided
at when Nannie was 13
that he wanted to
marry her.”

On the reverse it seems to say:
(Something) and family
Aprils hiding
Joe crying.

Thanks for
everything. Hope
to see you this
summer. I'm sure
I will.
Best of Luck
and watch out
for the Girls
68

Mr. Bell
To the
Sexiest teacher
in school whom
I like very well
Be good and please
don't ever show this
picture to anyone in school
I've enjoyed writing to you
this summer but you can't
let (your wife) find out! Ha! Ha!
That's all I can say, but at
least ya know I luvs ya!
Lov ya always
Horse.

Fatty

Hair do

Angel in Disguise

Klara Koh
Hannah Solomon
Berlin in Mai
1918

This Lady came out to see
us when camped at Merry
Her husband comes to see
us most every day and
takes these little pictures
They are nice people.

On reverse:
Mrs. N. A. Wilson
Mrs Sullnger (or Sullingen)
white white
(illegible)

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?"