Tag: sideburns
Facial Hair Friday: Presley, Presley is our cry!
Do sideburns set your heart aflutter? It’s been 35 years since Elvis Presley died, but judging from the media coverage and chatter on Twitter with #ElvisWeek, his fan base is still enthusiastic. But the some of the most passionate fan letters about the bewhiskered singer can be found in the National Archives. In 1958, Linda [...]
Posted by Hilary on August 17, 2012, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: army, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Elvis, Ike, Mamie, national personnel records center, OMPF, sideburns, St. Louis
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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: 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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Facial Hair Friday: Battle of the Crater
Oddly enough, Facial Hair Fridays is teaching this former medieval art historian a fair amount about the Civil War. (Teachers, take note!) Many of the images in ARC are portraits of Civil War soldiers, and I’ve had to go and look up these generals to put them into a context beyond their finely groomed faces. [...]
Posted by Hilary on June 11, 2010, under - Civil War, Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: battle of the Crate, Battle of the Crater, Burnside, civil war, disaster, explosion, sideburns
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