Shorpy All Stars

[Hurricane Jack]

"Mohawk Trail, Mass. State-owned camp and picnic site." -- October 1941, 75 yrs ago this month.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Ladies

"Elliott, Taylor & Woolfenden Co. -- millinery department." -- Detroit, circa 1912.

"Captain Alice Shanks, carrying football, in Powder Bowl at Gunnison, Colorado." -- October 14, 1939. I call a chop block on the left!

"Dude at rodeo in Ashland, Montana." -- Sept 1941. Quote says dude but I'm calling dudette! Check out the butterfly boots.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Laborers

"Picking cotton. Scene on the farm of S.N. Whiteside, near Waxahachie, Texas." -- October 1913.

"12-year-old Lahnert boy, near Fort Collins, Colorado, topping beets." -- October 30, 1915.

"Construction workers gathered around the bunkhouse stove
in the new craftsmen's barracks at Camp Blanding, Florida." -- December 1940.

 

[hatophile]

Laborers

"Picking cotton. Scene on the farm of S.N. Whiteside, near Waxahachie, Texas." -- October 1913.

"12-year-old Lahnert boy, near Fort Collins, Colorado, topping beets." -- October 30, 1915.

"Construction workers gathered around the bunkhouse stove
in the new craftsmen's barracks at Camp Blanding, Florida." -- December 1940.

I'm guessing that guy with handlebar mustache and hat is some sort of foreman. His hat is too nice, and he's not carrying a bag.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"California rifle team at Camp Perry, Ohio." -- 1908.

"Boy Scouts -- Postal Savings. Scouts depositing." -- Washington, D.C. Circa 1913.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"Ship's company, U.S.S. Maine." Circa 1896.

Commissioned in 1895 this is probably the first company to serve onboard. I have to wonder how many of these men were still onboard when she blew up during Feb 1898 while sitting in Havana Harbor killing 3/4ths of the crew. The U.S. entered into the Cuban revolt against Spain just 2 months later.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"Cowboy in the corral at Quarter Circle U, 
Brewster-Arnold Ranch Company. Birney, Montana." -- August 1941.

 

[Bamaboots]

"Cowboy in the corral at Quarter Circle U, 
Brewster-Arnold Ranch Company. Birney, Montana." -- August 1941.

A cowboy in a cardigan. Makes me wonder if that's a green horse or he rides with the hackamore all the time.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Makes me wonder if that's a green horse or he rides with the hackamore all the time.

I wondered the same thing. Couldn't think of a reason why he would want to.

 

[BobHufford]

A cowboy in a cardigan. Makes me wonder if that's a green horse or he rides with the hackamore all the time.

"Hackamore" ... I learn something new everyday. Unfortunately I forget more than that.

 

[Bamaboots]

I wondered the same thing. Couldn't think of a reason why he would want to.

Made me think of Steve McQueen's first horse in Tom Horn, rode it with only a hackamore. One of the best looking movie horses I've ever seen.

 

[Bamaboots]

"Hackamore" ... I learn something new everyday. Unfortunately I forget more than that.

Stick with us, Bob. We'll have you wearing rocks as big as diamonds.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Made me think of Steve McQueen's first horse in Tom Horn, rode it with only a hackamore. One of the best looking movie horses I've ever seen.

This one:

Despite what happened the lives of the real Tom Horn & John Coberly are people I respect & admire. Glendolene Kimmell whom many believe was his girlfriend despite their age differences, could have possibly saved his life but she refused to get involved until it was just too late. She lived out the rest of her life caring for her mother for a time, but pretty much in solitude. I'm sure she had regrets.

 

[Bamaboots]

This one:

Fine looking animal.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

John Coberly

Should be John Coble. I can't blame autocorrect for that one!

 

[alanfgag]

Raleigh Haberdashers, Washington DC. 1925

 

[mayserwegener]

Zenith of hat making / companies!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Waiting by the canal at Haxall's Mill, Richmond, VA, June 9, 1865. Note the devastation in the background.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"Man watching subway construction." Chicago, IL, July 1941.

 

[gtdean48]

A cowboy in a cardigan. Makes me wonder if that's a green horse or he rides with the hackamore all the time.

The way that horse's head is makes me think it's green, not giving his face, especially in the second photo.