We need some real beards.

[rosefiend]

Looking up Albert Gallatin Jenkins, I ran across this fine gentleman ...

Daniel Ruggles, Confederate General

 

[rosefiend]

Hazzard Perry Baker post-war real beard...
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Does anyone know what critical role ole Hazz played in 1865...?

I didn't know, but Google knows! http://www.kyforward.com/old-time-k...baker-was-last-protector-for-jefferson-davis/

 

[rosefiend]

View attachment 117276 Westerners looking pretty clean cut outside Atlanta. I assume this gave less problems with cooties.

The clean-shaven look is probably most useful in the camps, especially during the heat of the summer. The problem with cooties also explains (partly) why I see the most elaborate beards among the officers and not as many impressive beards among the rank and file. You're going to need more money than your average soldier to afford the barbering that a fancy beard requires. I also assume you have less trouble with cooties in the tents of the generals due to all the helpful staff that they can keep on salary to keep everything washed and boiled and clean, and I assume that includes hair and beards. That kind of service would have been a luxury to your average soldier.

Does this hit the mark or am I off?

 

[rosefiend]

I left my jump drive with all my beards on it back at the office, and there ain't no way I'm driving out over all that ice to retrieve it. But I should have some beards handy on this computer.

Somebody really, really does not like Masons.

Neptune!!

 

[GELongstreet]

We all know there can be only one, and though he came to the US just in 1867 it clearly can only be Hans Langseth.

 

[John Hartwell]

I wonder what's the story behind this one.

Paisley robe, pink cravat and grandma's night cap! And it looks like somebody tinted his specs green.


EDIT: Well, shucky-durn and slop the chickens, I found him!
"This is the only known Portrait of John "Posy" Roberts, pictured here wearing a rich paisley robe, a floral be-decked cap, a large red cravat, and "granny"-style glasses with green-tinted lenses. Fur trapper, carpenter, engineer and guide, Roberts was born near Watertown, NewYork and from 1836-1861 he traveled the Oregon Trail a dozen times. He was instrumental in opening Oregon to wagon traffic by working to bridge the Green River Wash and the Columbia river in 1840." [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486388828478573145/]
And, here I thought he must be a Mainer.

 

[rosefiend]

We all know there can be only one, and though he came to the US just in 1867 it clearly can only be Hans Langseth.

 

[rosefiend]

I wonder what's the story behind this one.

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Paisley robe, pink cravat and grandma's night cap! And it looks like somebody tinted his specs green.


EDIT: Well, shucky-durn and slop the chickens, I found him!
"This is the only known Portrait of John "Posy" Roberts, pictured here wearing a rich paisley robe, a floral be-decked cap, a large red cravat, and "granny"-style glasses with green-tinted lenses. Fur trapper, carpenter, engineer and guide, Roberts was born near Watertown, NewYork and from 1836-1861 he traveled the Oregon Trail a dozen times. He was instrumental in opening Oregon to wagon traffic by working to bridge the Green River Wash and the Columbia river in 1840." [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486388828478573145/]
And, here I thought he must be a Mainer.

Good work, soldier! Take the rest of the day off.

 

[Aussie Billy Sherman]

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General Longstreet could rock (pardon the pun) a nice beard even in his late seventies! Just saying! This image was downloaded from The Longstreet Society.

Woah. I've never seen that one before.

 

[Aussie Billy Sherman]

I wonder what's the story behind this one.

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Paisley robe, pink cravat and grandma's night cap! And it looks like somebody tinted his specs green.


EDIT: Well, shucky-durn and slop the chickens, I found him!
"This is the only known Portrait of John "Posy" Roberts, pictured here wearing a rich paisley robe, a floral be-decked cap, a large red cravat, and "granny"-style glasses with green-tinted lenses. Fur trapper, carpenter, engineer and guide, Roberts was born near Watertown, NewYork and from 1836-1861 he traveled the Oregon Trail a dozen times. He was instrumental in opening Oregon to wagon traffic by working to bridge the Green River Wash and the Columbia river in 1840." [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486388828478573145/]
And, here I thought he must be a Mainer.

I thought he must've been the Klinger of his unit

 

[LoriAnn]

(warning: many large beards inside)

I would love to see this warning posted on the door of a bar somewhere.

 

[D.H. Hill]

Colonel Milton Jameson Ferguson

Postwar

 

[Legion Para]

While they are postwar cabinet cards (circa 1880), it is most definitely a real beard.

Bearded Lady.

 

[Tennessee_Mountainman]

I'm sorry, but what am I looking at? I knew there were such things as female Dwarves! **** Elves...

 

[rosefiend]

While they are postwar cabinet cards (circa 1880), it is most definitely a real beard.

Bearded Lady.

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She wears it well.

 

[rosefiend]

Heaven help me, but I am actually writing a silly little book about beards. That's why I've been collecting these pics.

 

[Schwallanscher]

just had a shave -that looks so weird - it also makes my face appear kinda fat

 

[John Hartwell]

"Thou shalt not round off the side-growth of your heads;
neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard."
[Leviticus 19:27]
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Bad news for barbers!

 

[shermans_march]

I'm sorry, but what am I looking at? I knew there were such things as female Dwarves! **** Elves...

I heard they pop out of holes in the ground.

 

[shermans_march]

Not sure how this guy got his beard to look like that. Ch-ch-chia.