vintage caps

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Emigrants waved off from the Hebrides as the ship Metagama sets sail for Canada in April 1923.

 

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Striking mine workers outside the Red Diamond coal mine in Jefferson Co., 1934.

 

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Ireland, 1914

 

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Cherokee & the Choctaw code talkers from WW2 wearing a wide variety of caps/hats

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from Shorpyecember 1941. "Junk men with waste paper. New York City."

 

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Germany 1935

 

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This day 107 years ago – 26 August 1913 – the Dublin Lockout began, after William Martin Murphy dismissed hundreds of workers he suspected of membership of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.

James Larkin led the strike, which ended without success in January 1914.

 

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from 1912

 

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On this day in 1953, the remaining 30 people were evacuated from the Blasket Islands and settled on the mainland of Ireland:

 

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I love the detail in this pic.

 

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San Francisco, 1915

 

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San Francisco, 1915

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1915 mechanical brakes, San Francisco...I hope they have those wheels chocked..

 

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Not that vintage, I guess.

 

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Also not vintage, I just like the portrait.

 

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Also not vintage, I just like the portrait.

I do, too. He's a kindred spirit, isn't he?

 

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One of the coolest vintage cap pics I've seen in a long time.

From Shorpy: Suffern, N.Y., circa 1910. "Baseball team, Eymard Seminary. Eymard scored in the top of the 12th to beat Don Bosco 8 to 7.":

 

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One of the absolute best cap pics ever,
"1924 photograph of the men of the moulding shop from shipbuilder Harland and Wolff's Clyde Foundry. I hope the men concerned had brought notes from their mums...
The big bunnets the men are wearing were nicknamed 'doolanders', because they were large enough to provide a handy perch for any passing Glasgow pigeons."