Shorpy All Stars

[The Wiser Hatter]

July 1913. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. "Gettysburg reunion: G.A.R. & U.C.V. veterans at the encampment." Some of the 53,000 Civil War veterans, members of either the Grand Army of the Republic (Union troops) or the United Confederate Veterans, who reunited at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle there. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

 

[Rogera]

Fabulous picture Ed! That's a great piece if history there. Can you imagine the stories those guys could tell?

 

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Snow removal Washington DC 1925

 

[tommyK]

These boys hats remind of the Pharell hat that got so much attention recently

 

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January 1943. "Chicago, Illinois. Waiting for trains in the concourse of the Union Station." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.

 

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January 1943. Clinton, Iowa. "Residents of Miss Lucille Disher's rooming house for rail workers. Rear brakeman Clarence Averill and James Lynch, engineer on the Pacific Limited who has four sons in the Navy, Marine Corps, Army Air Corps, and Army." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.

 

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San Francisco, 1940. "Oldsmobile sedan and pedestrians ascending steep grade." With the Palace of Fine Arts and Golden Gate Bridge in the distance

 

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Washington, D.C., 1929. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. lineman."


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[tommyK]

WH, I can hear that Glen Campbell "Wichita Lineman" in my head right now

 

[tommyK]

Dad's got a descent lid, can't say as much for his teeth though.

 

[hatophile]

Reminds me of the "Real McCoys" (a little).

 

[Mystic]

Dad's got a descent lid, can't say as much for his teeth though

He was way ahead of his time...A fashion visionary.

Gap teeth are "IN" now......

 

[Bob Roberts]

One BIG horse.

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[tommyK]

Bob, that crazy giant horse eclipses the cool hats those gentlemen have

 

[Bob Roberts]

TK: "Take the hat. Leave the horse." Especially the one on the left. Think that might have been a world record for a big horse...

 

[fabiovenhorst]

Holy crap it's Gandalf the Grey! O_O

 

[tommyK]

Brim up and the fedora version of the cattleman crease were the order of the day in 1922.

 

[javadave61]

Brim up and the fedora version of the cattleman crease were the order of the day in 1922.

Thanks Tommy for this. Looks like a two inch ribbon on the one hat. It's a great look. Trying to imagine a two inch ribbon on an Open Road.

 

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August 1941. "Cowboy and horse at the Quarter Circle U, Brewster-Arnold Ranch Co. Birney, Montana." Our second visit with this sweater-wearing wrangler. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.


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