Category Archives: Groups

June 8, 2015

Holding hands at T. Hugh Miller Custom Tailoring

By C.E. Ryan
T. Hugh Miller Custom Tailoring. RPPC. Private Collection.

T. Hugh Miller Agent Custom Tailoring for Klee & Co. N.Y City. RPPC. Private Collection.

Tailors and salesmen in front of their place of business with the stylish Art Nouveau sign. We have a bowler, fedora, pork pie, all sorts of caps, two white neck scarves, bowties, ties…There’s a little of everything here, as it should be!

And four of them are holding hands. Gents holding hands didn’t necessarily mean they were gay, just close buddies not afraid to show affection toward each other. This was taken in the mid 1910s.

RPPC: AZO 1904-1018

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June 7, 2015

The Cosy Two

By C.E. Ryan
1890s tintype

1890s tintype

A cute tintype found on eBay of two gents being cosy together. Once again, the one on the left is wearing a fancily arranged neck tie.

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June 7, 2015

Yours truly

By C.E. Ryan
Private collection. Of course!

New Orleans snapshot. 2015. Private collection. Of course!

I thought I should sometimes update you with pictures of me, the blogger, and the gents of today who cross my path. We look photo-ready don’t we? *cough cough* And I look like I’m past my bedtime hour (it most certainly was). Hee hee.

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June 7, 2015

An uncanny resemblance

By C.E. Ryan
Cabinet card. Private Collection.

Toasting in Frankfurt Germany. Cabinet Card. Private Collection.

A group of friends toasting, one of them a soldier. The one in the middle is definitely the brother of the one sitting to the left.

I have a lifelong friend with the German last name of Kurzendoerfer who looks like he could be a descendant of the chap to the left. I showed this picture to his brother and him and got his go-ahead to post this.

A side by side. Uncanny, hm? A hundred years later and the same exact look in their eyes (and the same love for beer lol).

side-by-side

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Click for larger detail.

Sometimes I think there are no coincidences in life.

Photographer: Friedr. Carbons. Frankfurt a/M. Blelchstrasse 2. Germany.

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June 6, 2015

President Theodore Roosevelt and his sons

By C.E. Ryan
RPPC. Private Collection.

Roosevelt and sons. 1907. RPPC. Private Collection.

The 26th President posing with his four sons.

Clockwise: Kermit (b.1889), Theodore Jr (b.1887), Quentin (b.1897) and Archibald (b.1894). They had a half-sister, Alice, born in 1884 of Theodore’s first marriage.

RPPC: Pach Bros, N.Y. for The Rotograph Company.

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An update on those four Americans in Russia.

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