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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Those were great, thanks for posting them.
I found it interesting, in a large number of the male portraits, if you hide one half of the face with something, and then look at the other side, there is clearly a shift in expression or focus. In some cases it makes them look a little cross-eyed. In others, it gives quite a different flavor to their expression, change in the shape of the eye, etc.
I presume due to the long exposure times...
And it seems more prevalent in the men’s daguerreotypes than the women’s, for some reason.
LOL, I focused on that right away!
I think a far harder life for women back then than you would see today. I had the same impression.
The women look modern to me but then I’m a women and I know what women look like without makeup. Back then makeup on women was not the norm.
Door handle/lock mechanism maybe?
What it says to me is that women wear make-up because we need to! LOL...
love shorpy!
What I find interesting about the women of that era is that none wore any makeup. For obvious reasons being that it didn’t really exist, not as it does today. More over ‘’decent ladies’’ of that period never wore make up or ‘’paint’’ as it was called. Only ‘’fallen women’’ or ‘’soiled doves’’(prostitutes) wore ‘’paint’’. Hence the term “”painted ladies’’.
THAT guy looks like he’s starving (arms)
That’s exactly what it is. The house I grew up in north NJ was an old Victorian Era house that had doors with these type of locks. The living room and dinning room had ‘’pocket doors’’, sliding doors that could close off the two rooms. They slid into recesses in the walls when not in use.
locksmith
If you expand the photo you can see he’s holding an old antique lockset for on a door. The kind that was screwed onto the “in” side of a door, prior to the adoption of the modern Schlage or Kwikset, et al locksets which are inset INTO the door and only has the knobs showing on either side.
The guy with the hard drive looks like Rachel Madcow...
Their lives were certainly more difficult in many ways, and they didn’t wear makeup. But I think there was something else - a societal notion of how a ‘respectable woman’ presented, even to physiognomy.
It’s also interesting to me how many pictures of women from that time use books as props.
That guy is wasting away.
LOL Yuck- didn’t see that when i posted it- i woulda chose another [portrait if i had-
This reminds me of a good show on Netflix I started watching last night called The English Game. Set in Victorian England in the 1870s, it’s based on true events around the early days of football. Julian Fellows wrote it. https://youtu.be/deeRdfBnfoo
The smile is hard to hold the required few seconds for this type of imaging.
He’s a lock smith and that is a door lock.
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