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.

Thursday 1st Movember: Nimes

Back with some more moustaches for Movember, featured on real photographic postcards.

Firstly, it's over to France for some First World War soldiers - one photographed in Nimes and one addressed to a couple in Nimes (and dated 1910). Nimes is a city in Languedoc in the South of France, dubbed the most Roman city outside of Italy. It can boast both a large Roman amphitheatre and a well preserved Roman temple dedicated to the sons of Agrippa.

Our soldiers are posed next to monumental blocks of architecture, fake balustrades of very little actual solidity. In fact, any trace of an actual location has been carefully airbrushed out in both images. Such was the magic of the photographic studio.





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