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  1. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Photograph by Jack Delano, of a migratory farm worker in her Sunday clothes, July 1940.
  2. carouselvic

    Musician's hats

    It would have been nice if he could have seen the Cubs win it.
  3. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    1940 ~Lovely Lady A Jack Delano photo
  4. carouselvic

    Musician's hats

    ....a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song....
  5. carouselvic

    Ask a question, get an answer

    I'm no hatter and neither is anyone on this site. You might try doing a search on carroting, it has been discussed on here years ago.
  6. carouselvic

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Mercury was used on the hides to aid in opening the barbs of the fur so that when felted they would bind together with other fur and thus felt tighter and become more dense. The process is called carroting.
  7. carouselvic

    Hatbox Homage

    and not just in "the day" either.....go to a western wear store and buy a hat on display.....you get a box for it but rarely the box it came in
  8. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    the Busy Bee Restaurant in Radford, VA December 1940.
  9. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    I have it on good authority someone in the house is wearing a hat. New Bedford Mass. 1940
  10. carouselvic

    Vintage hat brushes

    curved brush is from Fordham Hat Shop agency for Mallory & Knox silver handle brush is Goldblat Haberdasher and Hatter, Newark N.J. modern horsehair brushes can still be found
  11. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Remembering Woody Guthrie, born on this day in 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. Here he is performing in on the subway in New York City in 1943.
  12. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Inside the Boeing 307 Stratoliner
  13. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

  14. carouselvic

    Post New Hats Here!

    were these hats sold to you as montecristi hats or hats sold by a company with montecristi in their company name?
  15. carouselvic

    The BORSALINO BROTHERHOOD

  16. carouselvic

    Stetson Stuff

    Bump
  17. carouselvic

    Pre 1940s Stetson Westerns

  18. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    love to watch her strut
  19. carouselvic

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Boys hold their breath, amazed, on their first elevator ride. 1948.
  20. carouselvic

    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    your hat is Asian. if it is real(natural) fiber then most likely from the buri palm. if it is the machine woven type rice paper fiber was used. i'm trying to find out more on carlton club, when i do i'll let you know.

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