politics
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Peter Kropotkin – Anarchism of course starts with your beard.
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Józef Piłsudski again – I think he ran Poland with that moustache alone.
Photo 1910-20 by K. Pęchersk, LOC
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Józef Piłsudski – Polish politician and leader, circa 1916-1920.
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This fine specimen is French writer and politician Eugene Pelletan as photographed by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) and featured today on my Met page-a-day calendar. I know what I’m going to be staring at all day!
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Can’t resist one last one of President Garfield via the ever bountiful LOC – only info is Sarony, N.Y.and it was taken between 1870-1881 when he was assasinated.
Random fact: Garfield had a dog while he was president called Veto as a dig at Congress.
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President of my heart
More smoulderingness, this time in a straw topper by the looks of it.
Shame that attorney wasn’t such a fan…
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President James A Garfield looking smouldering…sorry this is turning into fuckyeahhistorycrushes but hey, a man’s gotta do….
BTW we never got the parade of lovely bearded Presidents y’all get in the States – one benefit of the education over there I think..
Have you noticed there’s also something really sad about the eyes with President Garfield, in all the shots I’ve seen of him?
Here’s the full version of this pic:
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Robert Smalls, who escaped with the whole crew and their families from the South and slavery during the US Civil War by piloting and stealing a Confederate transport ship, the Planter steamer ship – then convinced Lincoln that African American should be allowed to serve, then lead a life as a captain and a politician. An amazing life under extreme conditions 😀
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Oh dear, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury has a headache! Or he’s superglued his hand to his head 😛 …photo taken by the London Stereoscopic Company.
Controversial first British Prime Minister of the 20th century, last of the aristocratic PMs, and probably the origin of ‘Bob’s Yer Uncle’ since he promoted his nephew Arthur Balfour who took over from him. Also lead Britain into the Boer wars, but also created acts to improve worker’s housing so definitely one of the old-school conservatives who also believed in philanthropy and God, rather than the Thatcherite pale imitations today.
I get the sense of a rather complex man during a time that the Victorian expansion was slowing and some really big issues that still exist today (Ireland, Africa…) and far from just a Tory – for instance:
Salisbury wrote to Lady John Manners on 14 June that he did not regard female suffrage as a question of high importance “but when I am told that my ploughmen are capable citizens, it seems to me ridiculous to say that educated women are not just as capable. A good deal of the political battle of the future will be a conflict between religion and unbelief: & the women will in that controversy be on the right side”.
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Booker T
From stereoview of Booker T. Washington at the historic Tuskegee Industrial School in Alabama. Caption: “Booker T. Washington, President of the Negro Industrial School, Tuskegee, Alabama. Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman.” Published by Underwood & Underwood.
Underwood and Underwood did stereoscopic views and portraits, there was a mania for them in the 1880’s – and even did news related ones such as Scottish war dead at the Somme in WW1.