Put On A Happy Face!!!

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Mark Twain occasionally flashed a smile in his photographs (at least through his eyes). He also filed several patents in his lifetime. One was for an "Improvement in adjustable and detachable straps for garments", such as the ones we use for bra straps today.

You reminded me of this article!

How Mark Twain's Hatred of Suspenders Drove Him to Invent

 

[Cavalry Charger]

And here are the women in my family.

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Great Great Grandma

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I noticed the way you wrinkle your nose sometimes, and SHAZAM! The world is turned to rights again

 

[nitrofd]

And here are the women in my family.

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Great Great Grandma

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You belong to a cute coven.

 

[Eleanor Rose]

I wonder if they are mother and daughter. They aren't identified in the photo. Source: All Things Interesting

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Gotta love that smile! Source: All Things Interesting

Looks like he caught his love under the mistletoe! Source: All Things Interesting

 

[Eleanor Rose]

5-year-old Percival H. W. Parsons and 2-year-old F. Herbert W. Parsons, c. 1867.

Unidentified young lady with her dog. Source: All Things Interesting

 

[Eleanor Rose]

You reminded me of this article!

How Mark Twain's Hatred of Suspenders Drove Him to Invent

And it reminded me of this picture so I had to find it!

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[Eleanor Rose]

Some proud and smiling Victorian papas! And they weren't hiding!

Source: World of Mysteries: Victorians Smiling

 

[Eleanor Rose]

How have I missed all these gigglemugs (an actual Victorian term)??? We need more of these images!

Source: Pinterest

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

Yes, it was a dance. Starts at 1:20 on this old film from Georges Melies.

Wow, the couple that dances the duet ought to win a lot more than a cake for that routine! So should the devil who appears at 3:18.

 

[Northern Light]

And it reminded me of this picture so I had to find it!

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Really? This seems quite unusual for the era. Does anyone know the story behind this?

 

[mofederal]

It is hard not to smile when you see these images. They are so uplifting and subjects so happy in their moment in time. I don't think the Scottish guy is really a guy.

 

[Jimklag]

It is hard not to smile when you see these images. They are so uplifting and subjects so happy in their moment in time. I don't think the Scottish guy is really a guy.

He's (she) not. The moustache is painted on.

 

[Mike Serpa]

Wow, the couple that dances the duet ought to win a lot more than a cake for that routine! So should the devil who appears at 3:18.

I think the devil dismembered himself by his own power!

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Really? This seems quite unusual for the era. Does anyone know the story behind this?

This shirtless photo was likely a byproduct of a bust that was sculpted by Karl Gerhardt for the illustration facing the title page of the book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain let his image be used in countless advertisements (i.e ads for restaurants, pharmacies, dry goods and cigars). The encyclopedia gives the impression that the shirtless photo was perhaps taken within this commercial context. It's not clear what product the portrait helped market or precisely how Twain saw it contributing to his public image. The details are murky. One thing is for certain, the 1880s image is authentic. It's the real shirtless Mark Twain!

Source: Open Culture

 

[Eleanor Rose]

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1840's heartthrob wearing a stovepipe top hat and a sly smile. Be still my heart! What do you think @LoriAnn, @Cavalry Charger, @AshleyMel and @Northern Light?

 

[Northern Light]

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1840's heartthrob wearing a stovepipe top hat and a sly smile. Be still my heart! What do you think @LoriAnn, @Cavalry Charger, @AshleyMel and @Northern Light?

Looks a like TOO handsome for his own good. He ain't got no money, either, judging from that frayed collar. Probably spent it all on the wrong horse, or the wrong woman.

 

[LoriAnn]

What do you think

He needs a five o'clock shadow and about 20 more years for me. Perfect for my 19 year old though!

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Love this pic of a boundary-crossing couple. After their marriage, John Ross, a Cherokee chief, and Mary Brian Stapler Ross lived in Indian Territory in Oklahoma (although they had to seek refuge in the North during the Civil War). Mary Ross was welcomed by her husband's family and members of her family moved to live with them permanently. The Rosses brought up their children as proud Cherokees, some of whom became prominent Cherokee leaders.

Image courtesy of the Oklahoma Historical Society circa 1850

 

[LoriAnn]

This is the guy you hope you get seated next to at a dinner party. You just know he's funny.

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