~ Handlebar, Circa 1910 ~
It was the fashion for a man to be photographed wearing his coat and hat, and, in this case, also his gloves.
Tag: vintage photographic portrait
Diminutive Pickpocket
Diminutive Pickpocket ~
A photogenic idler and a pickpocket, he gazes serenely into the camera across the gulf of a hundred and thirteen years.
Who’s Your Little Friend?
In this picture from around 1900, the handsome young man, beautifully dressed and proper, is holding on his lap a mysterious, grotesque-looking doll with a big head. What is going on here?
Literary Fictions 