The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[BobHufford]

@Michael R. travelling back in time to Texas in 1939.

 

[Yamahana]

@Michael R. travelling back in time to Texas in 1939.

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That or his last name is Elliot. This gentleman has on go to town/meeting clothes. A clean pressed shirt, clean suspenders, hands look clean, carrying a clean important looking book or ledger under his arm but his hat has got some hard earned miles and hours of wear.

 

[BobHufford]

Former heavyweight champ Joe Louis vs. the lions. Austin, Texas. 1951.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Civil War veterans reunion of the GAR, Bozeman, MT (1900).

 

[Hurricane Jack]

That or his last name is Elliot. This gentleman has on go to town/meeting clothes. A clean pressed shirt, clean suspenders, hands look clean, carrying a clean important looking book or ledger under his arm but his hat has got some hard earned miles and hours of wear.

His left wrist & thumb are well tanned from working in the sun, at first glance I thought he was wearing a spaghetti western shooters brace Clint Eastwood style.

 

[Frunobulax]

Former heavyweight champ Joe Louis vs. the lions. Austin, Texas. 1951.

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I'll put my money on Joe.

The Lions never win.

 

[BobHufford]

Deputy sheriffs in the Rio Grande Valley circa 1915.

 

[buler]

Great group of late 1800s, early 1900s hats.

 

[BobHufford]

President Theodore Roosevelt addresses a group of veterans in Fort Worth, Texas (1905).

Even the guy on the pole is poised to wave his hat.

 

[buler]

Don't recall the details. Cool hats.

 

[buler]

Navajo men on horseback.

 

[BobHufford]

"John R. Hughes, Ellison Carroll, A. B. Blocker and Bob Beverly with cowboy hats and cigars on the steps in the lobby of the Westbrook Hotel in Fort Worth at the 1939 Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association convention. "

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[BobHufford]

Junction, Texas. 1939.

 

[Mighty44]

Junction, Texas. 1939.

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Classic.

 

[buler]

Group of men and hats. Trumbell Electric.

 

[buler]

Hawes hat company

 

[Rmccamey]

Group of men and hats. Trumbell Electric.


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A couple of those guys didn't get the dark hat memo.

 

[BobHufford]

"Cowboys prepare for sleep on the Matador Ranch, 1908. The Matador was founded in 1882 and at one time covered 1.5 million acres. Today it still covers 131000 acres in three Texas counties. Taken by famed Cowboy photographer Erwin E. Smith."

 

[buler]

Very stylish.