My Daguerreotype Boyfriend

Love us some Pierre Curie…

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Pierre Curie, being hot as fuck. (Lecture on radium, Paris, c. 1900. photo by Henri Roger-Viollet.)

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Mike Tiernan, 1867-1918, (The A.G. Spalding Baseball Collection, NYPL) 

Lionel Logue, age 26. Australian speech therapist responsible for the un-stammering of King George VI. Here he is with his future wife, 21-year-old Myrtle Gruenert.

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John George “Jack” Phillips was born 11 April 1887 in Godalming, Surrey, England. In 1902, at age fifteen, he became employed at the Post Office where he began training on the telegraph. He then went to the Marconi Company’s Wireless Telegraphy Training School in 1906. Upon his graduation in August that same year, he was posted as an operator for White Star Line’s Teutonic. He operated the wireless on various ships over the next two years before going to Ireland to operate a Marconi station. In March 1912, he was given orders to join another White Star Liner Titanic, where he was the head operator. When the news came from Captain Smith 14 April, 1912, Phillips began sending out CQD and SOS distress signals on the wireless. Phillips and assistant operator Harold Bride stayed on the wireless until power failure and Captain Smith released them of their duties. It is unknown how Phillips left the sinking ship, but later that night, he was clinging to the side of the collapsible lifeboat that was floating upside down in the ocean, which also had Second Officer Lightoller and Harold Bride aboard. Despite reaching the collapsible boat, Jack Phillips died shortly before dawn at age 25. His body was never recovered. In Godalming, the community raised the Phillips Memorial, the largest Titanic memorial in the world.

April 15, 2012 will mark the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of Titanic and of the death of over 1,500 people.

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Western High Football, c. 1905 (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

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Tintype of an unknown young man

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Seriously, we did not know Bucky was a babe.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller  (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American inventor, systems theorist, designer, author, engineer, architect, and humanist.  Fuller was an enigmatic genius best known for his innovations with geometric architecture such as the geodesic dome, as well as his pioneering work with sustainable systems.  In addition to being dashingly handsome, “Bucky” was also a badass (having been expelled from Harvard University for his hard partying) and a genius, who meticulously documented his life over 80 years in the world’s longest autobiography, The Dymaxion Chronofile, a paper record over 80 meters thick where Fuller notated his life every 15 minutes!  Fuller’s complex intellect fascinated and baffled many of his contemporaries.  His many quirks, coupled with his brilliant designs made him a guru among alternative communities seeking to create sustainable systems. 

Fuller received numerous honorary degrees, was granted 28 US Patents, and in 1983 shortly before his death was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian honor) by President Ronald Reagan.  He died of a heart attack at the age of 87 and is buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Sometimes a Daguerreotype boyfriend distinguishes himself with a killer mustache or a pair of winsome plaid pants. Or sometimes they just live through the most famous maritime disaster of the twentieth century. Presenting…the hottest men who survived the Titanic. 

Richard Norris Williams, age 21

After freeing a trapped passenger by breaking down a door, Williams was washed overboard and swam to a collapsable lifeboat. He spent so much time waist-deep in freezing water his doctor later suggested his legs be amputated. Williams refused and went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championships in 1914 and 1916. 

Karl Behr, age 26

This first-class passenger was also a tennis star. He had been enamored with a friend of his sister, Helen Newsom, and followed her onto the ship. He was with Helen when he entered one of the first lifeboats to leave the ship and newspapers reported he proposed to her there. He was part of the 1914 U.S. Davis Cup tennis team along with Richard Norris Williams.

Jack Thayer, age 17

Thayer jumped from the ship in its last minutes, seeing it rip in half as he swam away. He was pulled down by the suction and surfaced next to an overturned lifeboat. His account of the night was was one the most famous recordings of the event. 

Alfred Stieglitz self-portrait, c. 1894, age 30. Stieglitz began an affair with Georgia O’Keefe in 1918. He took nude photos of her in his apartment, where his wife eventually found them, so Stieglitz and O’Keffe moved into a studio of their own.

A friend described them as “two teenagers in love. Several times a day they would run up the stairs to their bedroom, so eager to make love that they would start taking their clothes off as they ran.”

Submitted by Jessica S.

Hottest blind-gentleman-holding-a cat daguerreotype you will see all day.

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850, [daguerreotype portrait of a blind gentleman holding a cat]

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive

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