vintage caps

[Blackthorn]

Blackthorn, I'm so used to seeing these sorts of photos in black+white, this one in color really stood out for me!


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Yeah Greg, that stood out to me, too!

 

[Blackthorn]

Testing football helmets, 1912

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Lol, looks like fun!

 

[Blackthorn]

The famous explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, probably in the 1920s

 

[Blackthorn]

from an article about the Erie Canal:

 

[Blackthorn]

recording the MGM lion logo:

 

[GregNYC]

I'd seen that lion photo many times before, but it was in my ore-hatted days. More special now!


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[Blackthorn]

I'd seen that lion photo many times before, but it was in my ore-hatted days. More special now!


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I had never seen it before. It's interesting the things we notice as our focus changes.

 

[Blackthorn]

Jack Webb and Lee Marvin, from Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), but the setting was the Prohibition Era:

 

[GregNYC]

Blackthorn, I love seeing these caps in movie stills!


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[Blackthorn]

Blackthorn, I love seeing these caps in movie stills!


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Me too, Greg! I have quite a collection of them. I'm on my way to the airport to visit family for thanksgiving, though, so this will be my last contribution to this thread until December. See you then!

 

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[Stuffsmith]

Knockout cap, that, HBK.

 

[Blackthorn]

from the movie Penthouse (1933)

 

[Blackthorn]

A baseball team, circa 1910, "Elm Street Field, Dalton, Penna"

 

[GregNYC]

Blackthorn, these are wonderful!


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[Blackthorn]

Blackthorn, these are wonderful!


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Thank you, Greg!

 

[Blackthorn]

During the Depression, job applicants at the TVA:

 

[Stuffsmith]

Amazing image – and look at the size of the brim on the far right!

 

[Blackthorn]

Amazing image – and look at the size of the brim on the far right!

When I saw that, I realized the likely ancestor of baseball caps.

 

[GregNYC]

Yeah, it looks like a puffy baseball cap...


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