Monthly Archives: July 2016
Rifleman C. Sims, 3rd Victoria Rifles of Montreal, 1870
Gratuitous Shirtless Soldiers, with guns
Et tu… cosa fai? (And you… what are you doing?), Italy, WWII
Exactly. What are you doing you fascist pigs?
YOU are the man
Winner of my personal “Hottest Monarch Ever” contest: King George V of the UK
by Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd), bromide print, 1890s
Winner of my private “Hottest Robber Baron/Tycoon/Oligarch” ever contest: John Jacob Astor IV and his stache
Pictures here dressed up for a costume ball, obviously before he died on the Titanic.
Crown Prince/Kronprinz Wilhelm of Prussia (later Kaiser Wilhelm II), sporting an awesome stache and a kickass hat, photographed in London, 1880s
Love the look, but hate what he did to Europe.
Jewish soldier from Pennsylvania, and his muttonchops, in the US/Northern/Yankee army, US Civil War
MATTHEW'S ISLAND 