Today’s photo from opening #26 of the Leather CdV Album is either a poor quality print, or faded out, or both. The fellow, with his puffy hair style and slight “I’m trying to carry a caterpillar here” mustache, makes me think of some of the boys in my high school back in the ’80s (the …
Here’s a second photograph from the famous Bachrach studio in Baltimore, and a second photograph with some amazing hair. This young woman has obviously long, naturally curly hair which has been dressed to show off everything it can do. In the back, it has been brushed and shows the length. On top, we …
Don’t you think this fellow looks like Prince Charles? Just for the sake of comparison… It’s a doppleganger 100 years separated! The image by T. Ludwick Darnell is from the early 1870s and the one of Prince Charles is from the early 1970s. I have submitted this as a Sepia Saturday post so our friends …
This particular hairstyle mystifies me. I can only call it a “Lady Trump” because it looks so much like a giant comb over! Somehow, it also reminds me of the bohemian looking hairstyles of the early actresses of the 1910s, with lots of character in their tresses. She has at least three sausage curls hanging …
This young fellow is in the space next to our “fanciful” lady of the last post. However with a dearth of names, I cannot tell you if they were related or not. I noticed that the chair he is sitting in is rather tattered along the fringe. Perhaps an indication that the studio …
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