The original Feral_Rabbit blog was associated with my website devoted to my collection of John Willie LA bondage photographs. Both that blog and the website no longer exist. The website has been superseded by J. B. Rund’s Possibilities: The Photographs of John Willie. The blog was replaced by the Badrabbit blog on LiveJournal and now here.

One of the posts in the old blog was about inscriptions found on the backs of some of the John Willie photographs in my collection. Some of the inscriptions were made by Willie. Others were made by people who worked for Willie and handled mailing of ordered photos and/or those who ordered the photographs.

The first groups of bondage photographs offered in Willie’s flyers (J. B. Rund has kindly shared his collection of these rare flyers) were sets of June photographed in 1958 and Doree photographed in late 1958 or early 1959. These were lingerie bondage sets, there was no nudity. Many of the photographs I own from these sets have inscriptions. Here’s one on the back of a photograph of Doree in ink. The photographs of June and Doree that are inscribed in ink are in this hand.

Other photographs in these sets have penciled inscriptions showing first initial of the model and set number. This is another photographs from Doree set number 1.

Around June or July 1959 Willie offered sets of photographs which included models bound on a St. Andrew’s cross. Some of the photographs I have from these sets have the model’s name and a set number according to the order of sets in Willie’s flyer. These inscriptions are in pencil. Generally there is just a set number on the back, just one photo in the set has the model’s name and set number.

There is one photograph in my collection that has an inscription that is obviously in Willie’s hand. The set of Lorie photographs was shot in 1960 and consisted of 8 lingerie bondage photos.

Willie called Doree’s photos shot in mid-1959 and later Doree (B). These sets were released in groups of 12 photos, unlike the lingerie bondage sets of 8. There was nudity in Doree (B) sets. Amongst the last photographs Willie shot were the 4 sets of Doree (B) in late 1960 or, most likely, 1961.

I have one photograph with a rubber stamped inscription on the back, along with a initials in pen, probably by Willie.

There is another photograph in the collection with a pen inscription showing the set number.

As an aside, I created a personal html catalog that I host on my computers for reference. I’ve organized the collection of photographs according to different criteria and include information about inscriptions found on the back of photos. This catalog is not available online.