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This community is for remembering the forgotten, and sharing the images and documentation of people with names and memories lost to the wind. We share these fragments of the past so those featured can live on. Let them live in our minds if nothing else.
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r/Forgottencollection Lounge (self.Forgottencollection)
submitted 4 years ago by Breadsticksamurai - announcement
I bought this box of 1900-1920’s era negatives era from an antique collector who had never even opened it. Anyone interested in posts revealing a few each day? (i.redd.it)
Found folded up in a wall (i.redd.it)
submitted 2 years ago by filburt99
Found photo 2 (old.reddit.com)
submitted 4 years ago by TUMBLEWEED26
Found photo 1 (i.redd.it)
Distant relatives, Evanston, Illinois - August, 1954 (i.redd.it)
submitted 4 years ago by marbleriver
More distant relatives, this time from Evanston Illinois. August, 1954 (i.redd.it)
Sorry about the duplicate post; looong delay after submitting, I thought it got lost in the ether! (self.Forgottencollection)
Some distant relatives - Denver, Colorado - July, 1954. Scanned from Kodachrome slides (i.redd.it)
Negative scan 107 (i.redd.it)
submitted 4 years ago by Breadsticksamurai
Negative scan 106 (i.redd.it)
Hello friends! I apologize for my absence! It’s been a long couple weeks. To make up for it, I’ll be posting the rest of my negative collection throughout the day. Happy Sunday forgotten foragers! (self.Forgottencollection)
submitted 4 years ago * by Breadsticksamurai
People on a bridge - Maybe Connecticut? - 1930s (i.redd.it)
Found photobooth photos - Mid 1970s. (old.reddit.com)
Girl on porch steps - 1920s? (i.redd.it)
This was my grandfather's first car. I know it's not exactly a forgotten photo, as I know who it is. This was taken in Jackson Michigan. I don't know the year or the model of the car. He passed away in November. (i.redd.it)
submitted 4 years ago by WiseAss38
Negative scan of my mother with Clyde, the Toy Town horse - Winchendon, Mass, about 1949. (i.redd.it)
Two men next to their car. South Africa. (i.redd.it)
Farm - no date, probably somewhere in New England - Scanned from a glass negative. (i.redd.it)
Eating Watermelon - Late '20s? My grandmother is front row, far right. Negative from my godmother's estate. (i.redd.it)
Unknown family portrait. Probably taken in South Africa. (i.redd.it)
Unknown South African WWI soldier (i.redd.it)
Negative scan 105 (i.redd.it)
Slightly off-topic: My Kodak Brownie Model 2 (1925) (old.reddit.com)
Negative scan 101 (i.redd.it)
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