Archive for 'Facial Hair Fridays'
Facial Hair Friday: The Enumerated Mustache
Don’t be fooled by the sleepy demeanor of this mustachioed man. It’s 1933, and the world is changing. And the Federal Government would be recording these changes on April 1, 1940. Over 120,000 enumerators would fan out across 48 states and 2 territories, with copies of this Federal Decennial Census Population Schedule. They would use [...]
Posted by Hilary on March 30, 2012, under - Great Depression, Facial Hair Fridays, Genealogy, News and Events.
Tags: 1940 census, Anna May Wong, April 2, census, Depression, Dorothea Lange, federal government, live webcast, mustache
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Facial Hair Friday: When Irish mustaches are smiling
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! With all the hoopla over the upcoming release of the 1940 census on April 2, we haven’t really been thinking about facial hair all that much. But then fellow National Archives staff member Jeannie (of the OurPresidents tumblr blog) sent me this photograph, and genealogy, facial hair, and St. Patrick’s Day all [...]
Posted by Hilary on March 16, 2012, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: 1940 census, census, great depression, immigration, Ireland, JFK, Kennedy, mustache, St. Patrick's Day, widow
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Facial Hair Friday: A Liberal Arts Education
Among our extensive collection of Mathew Brady photographs is this one of Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, whose sideburns appear to slide down his cheeks towards his cravat. The Honorable J. B. Grinnell’s name may seem familiar if you have ever browsed college catalogs, or if you are an alum of Grinnell College, located in Grinnell, Iowa. [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 13, 2012, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: 39th Congress, abraham lincoln, Congress, Grinnell, Grinnell College, Horace Greely, House, Iowa, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, kentucky, Lovell H. Rousseau, Mathew Brady, neard, Republican National Convention, sideburns
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Facial Hair Friday: Two names and almost two beards
Today’s featured facial hair is a fan find! Thank you to Paul H. for alerting us to this wonderful forked beard. In fact, this beard really looks like there’s enough hair to be two beards. Perhaps Colonel Strother had a beard for each of his names? Before his stint in the Army during the Civil War, David Hunter [...]
Posted by Hilary on January 6, 2012, under - Civil War, Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: 3rd West Virginia Cavalry, artist, beard, forked beard, Harper's Monthly, Mexico City, nom-de-plume, Porte Crayon, President Hayes, Strother, Virginia Military Institute, White House
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Facial Hair Friday: Elvis has NOT left the building
Are these the most famous sideburns in music history? They might be the most famous sideburns in the National Archives. If you are a fan of Elvis, you’ve seen the photograph: Nixon and Elvis shaking hands in the White House. This is the most-requested image in our holdings. The quirky story behind the meeting of the King [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 30, 2011, under Facial Hair Fridays, Letters in the National Archives, Myth or History.
Tags: 1958, army, Basic Training, draft, Eisenhower Library, Elvis, Elvis Presley, letters, military file, montana, Nixon, nprc, photograph, Presley, rock and roll, sideburns, US Army, White House
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