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You're kidding, right?
^^^^^ Fixed it ...
You're kidding, right?
LOL...and by the way, I apologize for being uncouth & not apologizing in the Drinks thread...but I was all out of clean fancy glasses tonight.^^^^^ Fixed it ...
Wow!1/8 plate circa 1870.......
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Here is another unusual postcard image, also circa 1925......
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Close up of the hats....
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Made me think back to the five Sullivan brothers who perished together in WWII. Forever known as the Fighting Sullivan's.Here is another multigraph postcard image I picked up, this circa: 1925
Great photos, Mark! I would have guesses they were earlier based on the hats, but I suppose the hats could be older. I find it interesting that so many men wore their hats higher on their heads...perhaps this partially accounts for the prevalence of smaller hats during that era?
Bowlers WERE worn higher than the soft hats.......most of the time though studio photographs little indicate HOW the hats were worn day to day....."Push the hat back, a little higher" says the photographer (to this day in fact) "Mama wants to see your face"........
Look to the street and outdoor field scenes where people are not "posed" so much (or at all) to see how the hats were really worn........
YEP........I am afraid so.......best of the bunch!! RIP..."I don't need to push my stinkin' hat back!!!" Can you name that man with 3 numbers?
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Sieber hired Tom Horn as a scout & they became good friends. Horn was fluent in Spanish & Apache, & said to be proficient in German. Sieber was German so Horn probably learned the language from him.
Sieber hired Tom Horn as a scout & they became good friends. Horn was fluent in Spanish & Apache, & said to be proficient in German. Sieber was German so Horn probably learned the language from him.
Forgot I had posted anything. It may have been about the trial. Sieber kind of turned against him late in life.Your post about Horn in another thread roused my memory about Sieber and him.
Mary Surrat was the first woman executed by the US Government.Lewis Thornton Powell (April 22, 1844 – July 7, 1865)
Alias: Lewis Payne; Lewis Paine
Hung for the assassination attempt on US Secretary of State, William Henry Seward in the Lincoln conspiracy. Until the very last minute Powell was led to believe it was just to be a kidnapping. While awaiting execution Powell spent much of his time trying to exonerate Mary Surratt's involvement in the conspiracy.
In his pics Powell looks modern & very clean for the times.
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George Atzerodt was another conspirator that was hung. He had bought into Booth's kidnapping hypothesis. He wore a rather interesting hat too.Mary Surrat was the first woman executed by the US Government.