Showing posts with label Early 20th C.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Early 20th C.. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Early 20th Century Men

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We visit the early 20th Centtury today, starting with a young man reaching for something.  
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Adrien Deriaz

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My source admitted to having brightened this photo of Adrien Deriaz, and I don't blame them. It was taken in 1915 near the end of Mr. De...
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Jim Thorpe

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Native American Olympic Champion Jim Thorpe posed for this dual view in 1914.  
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Section Heading

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A popular online vintage photo resale website uses this photo  as a section heading without providing any provenance.  
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Stretch

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Those stretch pull exercise devices were probably  relatively new when this picture was made.  
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Gustav Fristensky

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Here we see legandary Czech strong man and wrestler Gustav Fristensky in a classic pose.  
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Rope pull

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I have no information on this shot of a young man pulling on a thin rope.  
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Moser Style

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This is one of those photos that reminds me of a Koloman Moser painting.  
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Goo-goos

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Mr. Right seems to have a bad case of the goo-goos for Mr. Left, and Mr. Left just might know about it.  
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Austria

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Friday, September 11, 2026

Maciste

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This is Bartolomeo Pagano, an Italian silent movie star who took the stage name  Maciste from a character he played in one of his early movi...
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Friday, August 28, 2026

Early 20th Century

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Back to the period of 1900-1925 today, and I'm starting with a puzzler.  Google says  the frame is for anthropomorphic measurements, but...
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James and Company

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This handsome fellow was photographed by an outfit called James and Company.   I've only found three other photos by this group, but wou...
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Walking away

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The model here seems to be walking away, but if this was part of a motion study, I haven't been able to find any other photos from the s...
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Emile Deriaz

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Here we see Emile, one of the seven Deriaz Brothers of Switzerland. He was also know as The Modern Samson.  
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San Francisco

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The only info I have on today's twofer is "San Francisco, 1915."  

Well lighted

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How about some well lighted beef?  
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Don't match

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I wonder if the asymmetry of the two flanking models was intentional?  
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Quartet

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Google says these fellows are French and part of either a military or medical examination. Either way, a couple of them don't look too h...
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Unusual

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Although I could do without the fig leaf, I like this unusual picture.  
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