Posted on 03/30/2020 10:02:53 AM PDT by NRx
Random daguerreotype photos of men from the 1840's and 50's. A window into our past.
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The Cincinnati one at 2:30 is very handsome.
Mr. Miller at 4:12 is fighting really hard to hide a bald head. A 19th Century combover.
Regarding the handsome man in Cincinnati, a few years ago some very old pictures of Cincinnati were discovered and published. A picture of the waterfront, at very high resolution.
The third guy looks like he just took out a DVD drive from a computer.
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Some of them (shocker!) are not wearing bonnets.
It would be funny if somebody saw the pictures and found their 19th century double.
Seeing photos of people who lived and died long ago makes me think of two things. One is to wonder why people rarely smiled in photos prior to about the first third of the 20th Century. The other is that, except for historical figures, all of our lives are anonymous except to our contemporaries, and even then only to people with whom we come in contact. It takes very little time before no one even visits our graves. There is something rather melancholy about that.
Wonderful photos!
The exposure time was quite long, it would be hard to hold a smile for the three to fifteen minutes it took. Often there was a 'brace' holding their head still.
Hahahaha...the third one down, the guy looks like he is holding a hard drive or something like that...:)
heh, that was what I thought too
The last photo on the first page titled Home Office - 1941 reminds me of my Dad. He worked for the New York Central Railroad, and wore blue denim overalls and work boots every day. After supper, he would sit down at the kitchen table and complete his work reports for the day. He even had the same glasses as the guy in the picture. He was a track foreman, and had to record in detail, all the work the crew had done that day. He'd make it out in duplicate using carbon paper, and keep a copy for himself. We even had a washing machine like that in our basement. I bet that cupboard behind the guy would go for a pretty penny today. We also had a clock like the one on top of it. I was born in 1947, so I'm talking about the 50's in regards to my Dad.
It’s interesting that when you scroll through those old photos, it’s always possible to find some folks that remind you of an actor, or even someone from your own family.
I think you had to sit/hold your face still for quite a while in early pictures.
What strikes me is that the men in the pictures look like men you’d see on the street today; while the women look much more ‘period’. It doesn’t seem to be just the hairstyles..
It looks like a music box. And it looks like a wind-up key he’s got inserted in the device. My guess is that he was some kind of repairman or machinist.
It’s a lock unit from a door. Leastways what I am guessing, hes holding the key, and you can see the screw holes where it would be secured in its pocket in a door
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