Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Maude Adams, 1900s via The New York Public Library
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Group of dapper young men by lovedaylemon on Flickr.
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Reminds me of H.H. Holmes, the serial killer. It’s not him (different nose).
Dandy! c.1895
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Man in a bowler hat, W. P. 1880, Emil Riisfeldt studio, Sydney by Blue Mountains Library - Local Studies on Flickr.
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A man in a suit and bowler hat jumping in the air in his backyard. Photograph by Wallace G. Levison. Brooklyn, New York, 1890.
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The Strand magazine, 1893.
A door? I shall open it! BUT HOW?
This has been “Narrating What People In Pictures Are Thinking.”
“I say, where are those lazy servants?”
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Baron Guy de Rothschild, 1980
via Vanity Fair’s “The Dapper Clients of Anderson & Sheppard”
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New York, 1943
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Gamekeeper, Crickhowell area, c. 1900
(from the Gathering the Jewels collection : www.gtj.org.uk )
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