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[LexarSD]

Lew Ayres 1930s.

He was very nice look Dr.Kildare.

and his famous kiss in the movie Wings, 1927. Some say it was the first same sex love scene including a kiss in cinema.

 

[LexarSD]

More Vintage portraits.

 

[samsara108]

More Vintage portraits.
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vintage hotties ♥

 

[misterfm]

More Vintage portraits.
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The first and the fourth pictures: handsome !

 

[woodshed775]

Ramon Navarro Silent Film star who came to a tragic end in 1968. He was murdered by the Ferguson brothers in a botched robbery. View attachment 72805531 Ramon made a nice looking midshipman.
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This is a photo of him from the movie Ben Hur 1925.
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and an image of him with Greta Garbo in Mata Hari 1931.
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A casual photo of Ramon Navarro and pup.

Hot in a white T-shirt.

 

[LexarSD]

This is rather an odd portrait. Not sure why the tambourine around the neck.

 

[LexarSD]

Image of Rupert Brooke. He was one of the famous poets During WWI. His most well known poem “The Soldier” was one of the biggest recruiting tools during the war. It’s nationalist theme fed into the hype and rush to war. Brooke died on a ship headed for Gallipoli in 1915. He is buried on the Greek Island of Skyros.

Brooke’s grave on Skyros.

This post won’t elicit boners, but it is historic.

 

[edonline]

The Irish poet William Butler Yeats once described Brooke as "the handsomest young man in England".

 

[LexarSD]

Two sailor in a berthing space getting a drink at the Scuttlebutt. Originally the Scuttlebutt was a large wooden barrel with fresh water in it. The term Scuttlebutt was also associated with gossip or rumors because while sailors were getting a drink of water they would talk about such things.

 

[LexarSD]

This is a portrait of Siegfried Sassoon one of the great poets of WWI. He was also a combat decorated officer during the war.

In 2019, 50 years after Sassoons death a grad student rediscovered an unpublished poem written by Sassoon to a young lover by the name of Glen Bayum Shaw. The poem was written in the 1920s and discovered in Mr. Shaw’s private papers.

The poem​

Though you have left me, I’m not yet alone:
For what you were befriends the firelit room;
And what you said remains & is my own
To make a living gladness of my gloom
The firelight leaps & shows your empty chair
And all our harmonies of speech are stilled:
But you are with me in the voiceless air
My hands are empty, but my heart is filled.

Siegfried Sassoon

Never wrote poetry to a lover. Being a photographer, I have left them special photos.

 

[LexarSD]

Nice looking Electricians Mate Second Class. WWII era. I like the all cotton uniform. They switched to a polyester blend when I was in. It was an ok uniform but it did not breath well.

 

[LexarSD]

I found this tin type image online. Tintypes were reverse images and his jacket opens on the female side. It seems to me this face is too modern for the period of the photo. Does it look like face and hair have been added over an original image?

 

[dontcallmemrtibbs]

Ae

I found this tin type image online. Tintypes were reverse images and his jacket opens on the female side. It seems to me this face is too modern for the period of the photo. Does it look like face and hair have been added over an original image?
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[cuisinier3]

I found this tin type image online. Tintypes were reverse images and his jacket opens on the female side. It seems to me this face is too modern for the period of the photo. Does it look like face and hair have been added over an original image?
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It's well within the realm of possibilities that it's a doctored photo. Another possibility is that it's a brand new image created using a tin type process. I recall seeing something on TV several years ago about a studio in San Francisco doing just that. It was pretty neat to see the process...I just don't recall the name of the studio.

 

[LexarSD]

After the San Diego Exposition ended in 1917, the city offered the Balboa Park Exposition buildings and grounds to to the Navy for use as a Navy Boot Camp until RTC/NTC San Diego was completed in 1923. In this image you can see several sailors around a reflecting pool. They would teach swimming and boat skills in these pools.

 

[edonline]

A lifeguard at Brighton Beach, early 1900s

 

[edonline]

James A. Garfield, c. 1857

 

[allmanbud]

I found this tin type image online. Tintypes were reverse images and his jacket opens on the female side. It seems to me this face is too modern for the period of the photo. Does it look like face and hair have been added over an original image?
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A Beautiful boy!!

 

[dontcallmemrtibbs]

 

[samsara108]

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Ooola la la !