The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[carouselvic]

I think it’s staged(said with tongue firmly planted in cheek)

 

[Louis Mountbatten]

He was Steampunk when Steampunk wasn't cool!

I was thinking that he looked like a character in some off label futuristic comic book!

 

[carouselvic]

Two men playing checkers in the midst of crowded country store shelves and walls. Weston, Vermont,

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Team of pack mules shown in Tampa, FL ready for passage to Cuba & the Spanish American War under Roosevelt, 1898. Picture from the collection of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Library System.

 

[BobHufford]

The Federal Official Family. Nov. 16, 1907. Oversize albumen photograph, 9.5 x 7.5 in (244 x 194 mm), mounted to 12 x 10 in. Pierson Photo.: Muskogee, 1907. Photographer's imprint in negative alongside title and date. Illegible pencil signature on verso.

Born into enslavement in Arkansas, Reeves (1838-1910) was moved to Texas by his owner. When the Civil War broke out, his enslaver joined the Confederacy and brought Bass along with him. It is unclear how Reeves escaped, but he almost certainly fled to Indian Territory where he lived as a fugitive among the American Indian populations learning survival skills and languages in the process. After the war, he farmed back in Arkansas until 1875 when he was recruited as a US Deputy. He had likely scouted for the US Marshals during his farming years and became very valuable to the Marshals for his superior tracking, marksmanship, and language skills in addition to his intimate knowledge of the land. He is reported to have brought in over 3,000 outlaws and was never wounded.

This photograph was taken in Muskogee, Oklahoma on the day of Oklahoma statehood and commemorating the last day of the "first federal family" of the Western District, as the newspapers referred to the U.S. Marshals in the region. Reeves is pictured at the far left wearing a large hat and Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Bud Ledbetter the second from right in the first row. With statehood, most of the duties formerly performed by the marshal service were assigned to the new counties and municipalities across the state. The Western Age newspaper of the African American town of Langston, Oklahoma reported on January 10, 1908, that Reeves had found employment as a policeman in Muskogee, despite his advanced age (he was now 70), and "a bullet in his leg, received while in the government service, gives him considerable trouble. He is as quick of trigger, however, as in the days when gun men were in demand." Another copy of this image is housed in the Oklahoma Historical Society and another sold from the Robert G. McCubbin Collection.

 

[Frunobulax]

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The Federal Official Family. Nov. 16, 1907. Oversize albumen photograph, 9.5 x 7.5 in (244 x 194 mm), mounted to 12 x 10 in. Pierson Photo.: Muskogee, 1907. Photographer's imprint in negative alongside title and date. Illegible pencil signature on verso.

Born into enslavement in Arkansas, Reeves (1838-1910) was moved to Texas by his owner. When the Civil War broke out, his enslaver joined the Confederacy and brought Bass along with him. It is unclear how Reeves escaped, but he almost certainly fled to Indian Territory where he lived as a fugitive among the American Indian populations learning survival skills and languages in the process. After the war, he farmed back in Arkansas until 1875 when he was recruited as a US Deputy. He had likely scouted for the US Marshals during his farming years and became very valuable to the Marshals for his superior tracking, marksmanship, and language skills in addition to his intimate knowledge of the land. He is reported to have brought in over 3,000 outlaws and was never wounded.

This photograph was taken in Muskogee, Oklahoma on the day of Oklahoma statehood and commemorating the last day of the "first federal family" of the Western District, as the newspapers referred to the U.S. Marshals in the region. Reeves is pictured at the far left wearing a large hat and Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Bud Ledbetter the second from right in the first row. With statehood, most of the duties formerly performed by the marshal service were assigned to the new counties and municipalities across the state. The Western Age newspaper of the African American town of Langston, Oklahoma reported on January 10, 1908, that Reeves had found employment as a policeman in Muskogee, despite his advanced age (he was now 70), and "a bullet in his leg, received while in the government service, gives him considerable trouble. He is as quick of trigger, however, as in the days when gun men were in demand." Another copy of this image is housed in the Oklahoma Historical Society and another sold from the Robert G. McCubbin Collection.

I'm sorry Bob, you're second sentence confuses me. Who is Bass?

 

[quikrick]

I'm sorry Bob, you're second sentence confuses me. Who is Bass?

My guess is Bass Reeves or Reeves Bass?

 

[BobHufford]

I'm sorry Bob, you're second sentence confuses me. Who is Bass?

Sorry ... not my words. Bass Reeves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I do recall seeing one posted before & perhaps it was yours? What size? Do you have any knowledge on a Lyndon B?

Only that he gave these away, like you said. I don't remember what the size was, but it was smaller than LBJ's actual 7-3/8 hat size. It might have been a 7, but I don't remember and it is currently boxed up and unavailable for a quick check.

I did find the pics in my files of hats belonging to former members who have since gone AWOL when things went off the rails. The pics were probably dropped by Photobucket too.

If one of these belongs to you now, let me know. Probably should move this to an appropriate thread.

PS: Louis, maybe you could start a thread seeking info on the President Johnson Wide Country, & the Lyndon B.?

 

[Hurricane Jack]

1983, the Stevens Hat Manufacturing Co, St Joseph Missouri. Stevens Hat Manufacturing Co was the licensee for John B. Stetson Co but sometime that yr purchased the outstanding stock to control it & renamed it the John B. Stetson Hat Div of Stevens.

 

[Louis Mountbatten]

Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein... what do you think... does

Abbott have a Knox, there?

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein... what do you think... does View attachment 281854 Abbott have a Knox, there?

Perhaps a late 40s Dobbs Twenty (or higher)?

Per Brad Bowers (or thehattedprofessor.com) Dobbs dating guide:

From a Dobbs Twenty I traded to a fellow lounger:

 

[Louis Mountbatten]

Perhaps a late 40s Dobbs Twenty (or higher)?

Yes, I think you have it. I also remember seeing the slanted words impressed into the sweatband in that scene, so Dobbs. Thank you.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

The crowd for the hanging of Tom Horn in Cheyenne, WY 117 yrs ago today, Nov 20th, 1903.

"When they hung him on a Friday
'Neath the gray Wyoming sky
All the lawyers down at the Cheyenne Club
Were smokin' cigars & drinkin' Rye"

 

[carouselvic]

Main street corner. Las Vegas, Nevada, 1940.

 

[carouselvic]

**Unknown, **Miles Holmes, California Forty-Niner, 1853, daguerreotype with applied color.

 

[carouselvic]

 

[carouselvic]

5 and 10 cent store, 45th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City 1940's.

 

[BobHufford]

Happy Thanksgiving (for those that observe it)! Gonna be a weird one ...

 

[Frunobulax]

Table celery?