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Taking history out of the books, putting it in the hearts, telling stories, and preserving family memories.
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Email → [email protected]
Instagram → instagram.com/lostmemoryrepository
YouTube → youtube.com/

10/22/2026

When it’s Halloween and everyone thinks it’s a costume.

Archive notes:

• Estimated 1960.

Everything else is unknown.
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🎞️: Flatbed scanned medium format film negative.
🎶: Everybody Loves A Clown - Gary Lewis & The Playboys

10/20/2026

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide.

Archive Notes:

• From the ‘Book of Negatives Collection’.
• Estimated 1970.
• Found in Oceanside, California.
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🎞️: Flatbed scanned medium format film negatives.
🎶: Helter Skelter - Siouxsie and the Banshees

10/15/2026

Should we bring these back?

Archive Notes:

• Neal ?
• Tiptree, Essex
• Found in Kings Lynn, UK
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📜: Flatbed scanned paper card. (4in X 2in)
🎶: Beep Beep - The Playmakers

10/10/2026

Who doesn’t love Weird Alice?

Archive Notes:

• From Space 111
• Found in Buhl, Idaho

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🎞️: Scanned photo print.
🎶: Just Because - Frankie Yankovic and his Yanks

09/22/2026

What getting old feels like.

Archive Notes:

• Circa 1944
• Found in Brooklyn, NY
• Fox-Tone print brand.
• Fox Co. (based in San Antonio, Texas)

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🎞️: Flatbed scanned photo print.
📏: 7cm x 7cm
🎶: I Won’t Grow Up - Original Broadway Cast of Peter Pan

09/17/2026

The 70s was a formative experience.
(A few more from the same batch as yesterday.)

Archive Notes:

• Estimated 1980.
• Negatives came from Tennessee, near Chattanooga.
• Jeanie
• Ramones
• Patti Smith

Everything else is unknown.
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🎞️: Macro scanned film negatives (126 format).
🎶: Pinhead - Ramones

09/16/2026

Tim Curry was a formative experience.

Archive Notes:

• Estimated 1980.
• Negatives came from Tennessee, near Chattanooga.
• Rocky Horror Picture Show

Everything else is unknown.
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🎞️: Macro scanned color negatives. (126 format)
🎶: Sweet Transvestite - Tim Curry, Rocky Horror Picture Show

09/15/2026

Huge thanks to Rodnell Matos Deffitt for helping me revive this lost piece of music.
👤: Rodnell Matos

Archive Notes:

• Aunt Cora Wright
• Portland, Oregon
• Franklyn ‘The Photograph Man’ Sowell
• All photos found in Boise, ID at State Street Antiques

Links:

• Rodnell’s YouTube: www.youtube.com/Rodnell Emid Matos Manrique
• Sheet Music: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1696/

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🎞️: Scanned photo prints.
🎶: To The End of the World With You (1908) - Ernest R. Ball

09/07/2026

When you look in my eyes pretty woman the world is a peaceful place.

L.C. could refer to the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ where Tony Orlando sang in January 1974.

Archive Notes:

• L.C. - Tony Orlando
• Found in Brooklyn, NY.
• Estimated 1974.
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🎞️: Flatbed scanned photo print.
🎶: Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman - Tony Orlando & Dawn

Address

69th & Ludlow
Upper Darby, PA
19082

Website

http://www.lostmemoryrepository.org/donate, https://lostmemoryrepository.org/elizabeth, https://www.kivitv.com/boise-ben

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