#46 BACK It Up! [Nov 27-Dec 3]

[happyrobyn]

Sorry I am so late in the day posting the challenge. Real life got in my way today. LOL! But better late than never!

This week's challenge is a fun one. We are going to be more interested in what is on the BACKS of our heritage photos than on the front. Sometimes we find a real treasure on the backs of our photos. I always have a huge smile on my face when I run across a heritage picture where someone actually wrote something on the back! Scan in that handwriting and find a creative way to display it on your page. Photos need to be from the 1970's or before.

Here's my example: Fortune (http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28201&cat=500&ppuser=1707)

Here's one I did a while back: Texas 1973 (http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=15640)

[Fiddlette]

This is a great challenge, Robyn...I love to include the back handwriting of photos on my layouts...it just adds authenticity and family history. I've done it on many a layout!

Can't wait to see how other's incorporate this into their designs! :)

[smwhite]

sounds great... my mom would give you the biggest hug if she read this challenge. As an avid geneologist, that is her pet peeve when people don't identify who is in the picture and where they're taken.

That's one thing I love about Costco... I can have the repetitive stuff printed on the back of the photo and it's all taken care of! (smile)

Fun sounding challenge... I'm hoping I can find a photo with something newsy to share!

[maybeyousee]

This is a great one. I love photos with writing on the back, I don't have many and most of them are in Dutch. I'll probably have to spend an evening translating!

[happyrobyn]

No need to translate ... unless you just want to! These layouts are for YOU and not for us! I can't wait to see what you have!!

[malacima]

I don't have many heritage photos with writing on the back and mostly text is short.(date and place).

Anyway here is what I have done:

http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28308&cat=500&ppuser=2705

[sueceduna]

http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28311&cat=585

this is my LO for this written on the back of photo challenge

I collect local history photos, and have thousands. This is a postcard that has always intrigued me. Our farm borders this aboriginal mission, 25 miles north west of Ceduna.
No relation just liked the photo. While it is aboriginal people, i wonder about the background, must have been a travelling photographer set that up, as i am sure they would not have been in Adelaide to get photos taken.

oh Robyn, i lied earlier today... when the news and weather came on they said it was actually top temp of 46 celcius here today - 114 in your language. Can you imagine how much hotter it was further inland and where our farm is... isnt that disgusting! hate summer. sick of it already...

and i was too busy getting this LO done, to get off my bum and walk one block to the sea this evening to have a swim!! the sea looks beautiful tonight, calm and it is overcast and thundery, 25 tomorrow thank goodness.

sue

[Marretje]

Writing on photo's is absolutly 'NOT DONE' in our family so I didn't have photo's with a note on the back. But I have two large correspondence archives of familymembers. One is a, most, postcards archive with a lot of old cards of America send to Holland. I used some of these cards for this journaling Life is a Journey (http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28433&limit=recent). Thanks Robyn for hosting and the inspiration.

When I was looking for which card I could used I had to read them all again, and again. What a joy.

[happyrobyn]

I am really enjoying this challenge. The photo information is so interesting to read and I'm glad you guys are thinking outside the box and incorporating post cards as well.

[Bettina Groh]

I'm as facinated by the fronts as the backs... I hadn't realized just how many of my family photographs were printed as postcards! I came across one of my grandparents , at the beach with their dog, in 1937. its the end of the depression... he has holes in his shoes... but they're having a day at the beach. The photographer's logo takes up about an inch . It's the crossed British flags, crown and G vi R plus "Sunny Snaps 1937 and a hand printed #6000. It was never sent... but I feel lucky to have it since this is one of the very few of them together.

[sueceduna]

Bettina, are you going to scrap it and show us? it sounds like a lovely photo. I collect local history photos here in Ceduna, south australia, and quite a lot of them are done as postcards.

like to see your photo

smiles

sue

[happyrobyn]

I want to see it, too! Sounds really cool!

[Bettina Groh]

I did the page this evening. I hunted around and found some early pictures to add to the page. I really learned alot about them at the same time. Of course I have the stories from my mother.... but what I learned were funny little things that I never would have thought to ask her! As it is... I just a have big box of somewhat mouse chewed photographs, postcards and letters that I rescued from my mother's attic before she died!

[happyrobyn]

Here's a link to Bettina's layout: The Search (http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28586)

Thanks so much for posting! What cool old pictures.

[Belles]

I do plan on doing this one still -- my aunt was here yesterday and she had with her an album with lots of old photos of relatives that I was struggling to find pictures off and I had the chance to scan a whole heap of them -- there was one with something on the back so will work with that one. :)

I have some great Ephemera with handwriting on the back ;)