RPPC. Private Collection
This postcard is beat up and the back is almost completely erased by time. Someone drew a mustache on the Al Capone looking guy to the left. At first I was disappointed to see that, then it dawned on me it’s part of what makes it hilarious. Did one of the two others add it? The guy in the middle has quite the relaxed pose with his arms behind the necks of his friends. Don’t they look like your stereotypical 1930s gangsters? The suits and fedoras are fantastic.
Photographer: unknown. RPPC.
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Dana B. Merrill among young, rowdy subjects. Circa 1910. Private Collection
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Dana B. Merrill was a noted American photographer whose prints are still on sale today. I researched him based on the name and the N.H. in pencil I figured is New Hampshire.
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Notice the front boy’s sneakers. These look like precursors of Chuck Taylors. And the long shadows of a late afternoon they cast! A great little photograph.
Photographer: Unknown candid
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Neck scarf wearing mustached gentleman of the 1860s-1870s.
A very nice CDV vignette of a mustached man -the first on this blog, but not the last -ba-dum-ching!
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A very interesting cabinet card of seven friends posing together. A good example of the men’s fashion of the 1880s.
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Bowlers And High Collars 