Show us their hats!

[Benzadmiral]

James Joyce (1882 - 1942)

Joyce looks young and carefree in the first pic. In the second, though, he appears he's trying to remember whether he left the stove on back home.

 

[Benzadmiral]

W Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

There's a story about Dorothy Parker meeting him at a dinner party. Maugham asks her to write a poem for him. Dottie, who was never terribly fond of men of his, uh, "persuasion," whipped out a pen and wrote:

"Higgledy piggledy, my white hen,
"She lays eggs for gentlemen."

Maugham said, "Yes, I've always liked those lines." With a thin cool smile, the story goes, Dottie unhesitatingly penned:

"You cannot persuade her with gun or lariat
"To come across for the proletariat."

(Hat looks cool, though.)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Joyce looks young and carefree in the first pic. In the second, though, he appears he's trying to remember whether he left the stove on back home.

I always try to put them in chronological order.

 

[Frunobulax]

I always try to put them in chronological order.

I've noticed that and appreciate it. It tells a good pictorial story.



Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Dudley Hiram Snyder (1833 - 1921)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Sam Giancana (1908 - 1975)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

John Hunt Morgan - CSA Brigadier General, "Morgan's Raiders"
Beautiful photograph

 

[Bamaboots]

John Hunt Morgan - CSA Brigadier General, "Morgan's Raiders"
Beautiful photograph

Distant look in those eyes.

 

[Rick Blaine]

Sam Giancana (1908 - 1975)

If I am not mistaken, these two are Benny Siegel.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Distant look in those eyes.

They had all seen & been thru a lot at such a young age. Can you imagine boys as flag carriers, buglers & drummers as young as 12-15 yrs of age & what they must have seen & experienced on the battlefield?

 

[Bamaboots]

They had all seen & been thru a lot at such a young age. Can you imagine boys as flag carriers, buglers & drummers as young as 12-15 yrs of age & what they must have seen & experienced on the battlefield?

Thought about it a lot but can't imagine it. Unbelievable hell.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Thought about it a lot but can't imagine it. Unbelievable hell.

I have a book that documents some of these boys & I remember an example of one as young as 12.

There were a lot of boys just killed outright by federal troops because "pups grow up to be hounds".

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Here's a young one.

 

[Redfokker]

On the event of my 2000th Post, I present to my fellow loungers the Hon. Ben W. Olcott (1872-1952). I found an image of him while researching the Board of Regents for Oregon Agricultural College in 1912. As can be seen in the image below, the guy on the far right of the group of stodgy banker types is a real character. This prompted me to commission a custom hat to match his interesting homburg from Mike at NW Hats. It is only a week or two away from completion, pictures to follow. I will name this hat, "The Olcott"

He was an interesting guy. At the time of the photo, he was the Secretary of State for Oregon (1912-1919) and an ex-officio Regent for OAC. He was appointed Secretary of State by his once room mate, and then Governor Oswalt West. During his time in this office, the current Governor Withycombe (another OAC Grad) died in office and Olcott assumed office. He served until 1922 when he was defeated in a race against the candidate supported by the Oregon Ku Klux Klan. Yes, Oregon had a KKK supported Governor for a few years!!!

Olcott was also a gold prospector in the early century and worked as a gold teller in a bank in Alaska, after a 1000 mile dog sled trek!

After some archival sleuthing, I identified Olcott in the photos below. It turns out that my new hat belonged to a real character of early century Oregon. Mike is creating a reasonable replica of this interesting hat. Happy 2000 to me!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

In honor of Robert E. Lee's birthday today January 19th, 1807 this is Lee's slouch hat worn by him throughout the Civil War, & with his signature inside the sweat. It is on permanent display at the museum at Stratford Hall Plantation, his birthplace.

 

[Frunobulax]

In honor of Robert E. Lee's birthday today January 19th, 1807 this is Lee's slouch hat worn by him throughout the Civil War, & with his signature inside the sweat. It is on permanent display at the museum at Stratford Hall Plantation, his birthplace.

Pardon my ignorance, but what makes a "slouch hat" a slouch hat? Is it the design or the bash? If you would show me that hat, and ask, I'd have said it was a campaign hat. This is an area I'm not good at.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Pardon my ignorance, but what makes a "slouch hat" a slouch hat? Is it the design or the bash? If you would show me that hat, and ask, I'd have said it was a campaign hat. This is an area I'm not good at.

They were soft hats. Most were wool & had little stiffness to them. Floppy brims, etc.

 

[Frunobulax]

They were soft hats. Most were wool & had little stiffness to them. Floppy brims, etc.

THX. That's what I thought, but wasn't sure.

 

[Redfokker]

In honor of Robert E. Lee's birthday today January 19th, 1807 this is Lee's slouch hat worn by him throughout the Civil War, & with his signature inside the sweat. It is on permanent display at the museum at Stratford Hall Plantation, his birthplace.

Wow! That is what its all about. The signature really moves me.

 

[Edward]

They were soft hats. Most were wool & had little stiffness to them. Floppy brims, etc.

More like a primitive boonie than a Western...