Highlights from my collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs (cabinet photographs, cartes de visite (cdvs), albumen prints, real photographic postcards) of men with moustaches (or mustaches, depending on which side of the pond you hail from). We travel the world gleaning bits of information whilst admiring the expertly twirled moustaches on display.

Sat 28th: Cleveland

The vast majority of cartes de visite are posed with the portrait shot vertically. It is rare to find them with a horizontal image; rarer still to find a horizontal image of more than one person; extremely rare to find a horizontal portrait of four men; impossible surely to find those four men ALL sporting moustaches?

But, as today's photographer, Theo Endean of Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, boasts on the back of his cdv, "All kinds of portraits" taken. 

Result!

Four gentlemen. Clevehand, Ohio. Carte de visite.





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