Lost Gallery: November 2013

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Sepia Saturday - Moustache

LOST GALLERY has thousands of old photographs. They are grouped by content or subject for easy comparison. Many of the photographs are decades old.

As you probably know already, the moustache was common among gentlemen of yesteryear. From Pencil-Thin to Handlebar, most men cultivated some sort of whiskers on their upper lip. There were no safety razors or electric razors a hundred years ago. Maybe it was vanity, or maybe it was a male ego thing or even an attempt at being stylish. Maybe it was inconvenient to shave under the nose with an ultra sharp straight razor.

In actuality it was more than a bit inconvenient. They had to groom it daily sometimes with moustache wax and use a moustache cup for their coffee. And let me tell you it was no boon during a head cold.

Let's examine a few. There are many portraits of men with a moustache in LOST GALLERY. Let's deal with the moustache only, no beards or muttonchops or goatees or chin curtains. No side-whiskers or neck beards or Shenandoahs.

Also let's look only at cabinet cards, CDVs and tintypes; no snapshots. We can be fairly sure that all of these are more than a century old.

Let's start with this CDV (enlarged here).

It's difficult to select a favorite on a this subject, but this one is certainly is the most treasured.

It's the very first CDV to hang in
LOST GALLERY.

First some of the tintypes.

I'm not sure if this guy has a beard or not.
The original is very faded and the dark area around his neck may just be a result of the extensive enhancement it had to endure.

Here's a real Western Gunfighter sort of moustache..

I think I might have an idea why this fellow was growing a moustache...

So, wax on back to the
SEPIA SATURDAY home page and see what else you can find right under your nose.

The most popular photographs An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

THE KIDS It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh
"What are they doing?"

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Back Page - We Call It Home - Page Two

House and home.

Just to be finicky, lets call a photograph of a house, a house. If there is someone standing in front or somewhere in the photograph, let's call it home.

Can't get enough?
Go HERE!