hats
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William Ross, Piper to Queen Victoria from 1854 to 1891.
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Petticoat Lane (1903)
Fascinating view of Petticoat Market from the turn of the century. Love the gentleman at the end who raises his bowler to the camera! I wonder if he realised we’d be watching him do that, 108 years later?
Petticoat Lane (1903) (by BFIfilms)
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Tintype, Full-length portrait of a man holding a top hat and walking stick, between 1890 and 1910
The Library of Congress is full of gems like this…shame they put ‘high volume’ and popular items on hold where you can only see them at the location. Boo!
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William Sidney Mount, full length portrait, facing left, wearing top hat and holding a coat by William Brady – Library of Congress
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A king x 3: King George I of Greece.
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A man can never have too many hats.
ca. 1896, [Black River Falls Hat Shop Window Display], Charles Van Schaick
via the Wisconsin Historical Society, Charles Van Schaick Photographs And Negatives Collection
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What links the first ever murder on a train in 1864, and this hat?
Thomas Briggs, a city banker was murdered for his gold watch and spectacles on a train heading to Hackney – in fact he was thrown out of the train, and a pool of blood and a hat was found at the scene. No that isn’t the hat I mentioned, it gets more grisly. Women in the carriage next door (this is before trains had connecting carriages or communication cords) heard nothing but had small spots of blood on their dresses blown in probably as he was thrown out of the train… Eventually via the gold chain of the watch being sold to a pawnbroker, a rather strange and cirumstantial evidence of a cabbie called Death (!) and the hat left in the carriage Franz Muller was identified as a suspect (pictured) a german tailor who had fled to America on a boat.
When he was located he had Brigg’s watch on him, and his hat…but to disguise the hat he had cut it down by half and reattached the top. Bizarrely due to the sensationalist press around the trial, although Muller was hanged his hat lived on and became an instant popular hit – worn by the likes of Churchill. Today it seems to mostly live on in dressage but I’m guessing not many know the grisly history of the ‘Muller cut down’ top hat (although the book just released ’Mr Briggs Hat’ which I must read probably will again popularise this strange tale, and the fact that the circumstances and evidence was far from conclusive in modern terms…) – oh and the introduction in 1868 of the communication ’emergency’ cord which still exists in some form in trains today.
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Carriage excursion circa 1865
Carriage excursion circa 1865, ambrotype. unknown English photographer. As mentioned in the previous post, Ron Brownson is looking for info on these. http://aucklandartgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/forensics-on-fashion.html – other closeups and the full image:
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Wagon and workers circa 1870 ambrotype (detail) – love the swagger of these working circus? theatre? folk. Ron Brownson is looking for information to date these English ambrotypes. http://aucklandartgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/forensics-on-fashion.html.
Here’s the full pic: