The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[RBH]

Big Knife - 1909
Chippewa/Cree
Rocky Boy Reservation Montana
Montana State University Library.

 

[alanfgag]

Great one.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Nice pictures.
On the last one, the hat seems a bit small for his head.

 

[carouselvic]

~ Harry Mellon Rhoads,, 1880 or 81-1975.~

A young photographer Harry Rhoads sits on a rock in a suit and pith helmet; he holds binoculars and a double barreled shotgun; a pistol is in his jacket pocket, Colorado. c.1910

 

[frussell]

Love that shoeing photo, looks like something William Matthews would have painted in modern times. One of the hardest parts of being a cowboy as well, absolutely back-breaking labor, unless you're a very short, wide cowboy. Always killed my back after doing it a few hours. Keep them coming, boys.

 

[tropicalbob]

I'm wondering how that pith helmet and suit went over in Colorado in 1910.

 

[hatophile]

Nice pictures.
On the last one, the hat seems a bit small for his head.

Maybe it's the braids. Wish I had hair to do that with. I really like his shirt and vest too.

 

[gtdean48]

Love that shoeing photo, looks like something William Matthews would have painted in modern times. One of the hardest parts of being a cowboy as well, absolutely back-breaking labor, unless you're a very short, wide cowboy. Always killed my back after doing it a few hours. Keep them coming, boys.

Been using the same farrier for over 20 years. He was 18 or 19 when I first used him & now he's over 40.
I'm constantly amazed at how he stoops to ply his skills still. Makes my lower back hurt watching him.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Maybe it's the braids. Wish I had hair to do that with. I really like his shirt and vest too.

I used to have hair longer than that. Now it's much shorter.

 

[Garrett]

Gielgud dons a velour

It appears one of our greatest thespians was also a velourciraptor

 

[hatophile]

What a cool hat!

 

[RJR]

+1

 

[tropicalbob]

Cool and warm. Not sure how I feel about furry hats.

 

[carouselvic]

In honor of #NationalHatDay, here's future First Lady Bess Wallace Truman as a young

Text and image: Bess Wallace and Mary Paxton, 1901, from the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum

 

[Benzadmiral]

One imagines Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe tailing somebody on a case. Perhaps he's the one in the raincoat to the left of center, standing between the two light-colored coupes that are headed in opposite directions; or the dark-suited gent at far left under the awning with the light mid-ribboned hat, watching the traffic snarl.

 

[Benzadmiral]

MN Governor John Lind 1914

Darn, I like that hat. It looks like a tall-crowned homburg with the sides of the brim swooped up more, and soft wide side dents. Sounds like a job for Art to reproduce . . .

 

[Benzadmiral]

New Mexico or Colorado, I'll warrant? Mid-1950s or later?

 

[hatophile]

Bess seems to like those flamboyant hats: