How Missing Photos Began

The missing photos project began one afternoon a couple of years ago when I was at a flea market sale in Denver, Colorado. I spotted a photo album on a shelf, and when I paged through it, I found it was full of photos with names and locations. I thought of the old family albums I had at home and it made me sad to think that these photos had been taken over many years, and now were lost to the family that would treasure them.

I bought it, went home and started a search on the Internet. So far, I have not been successful in returning this album to the family, but it fired an interest that has continued, as I have bought more albums and widened my search for more families.

I soon realized that I did not have enough hours in the day to continue the search on my own, so this web site was the natural progression in the quest to find the families.

The official MissingPhotos.com web site is being constructed and will feature photos and information about a number of missing family photos. Until the site is completed, I will only display information about that first album I bought, and a few photos from other albums I have purchased.  Please stop back soon to see the updated site.

The Cole family album. 

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The photo below, comes from an album and a large number of photos I bought which were owned at one time by a man named Richard Cook.  I have a postcard that lists the Cook Family living at 115-111 223 St., Camden Heights, NY, in the late fifties or early sixties.  There are a number of military photos.  I believe this was taken in the early 1950's at an air base in England.


Mr. Cook, (on the right) his wife, and a friend.