My Daguerreotype Boyfriend

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British commandos with German prisoner, France, 1944

He looks so happy. 

“I’m going to America! …ladies.”

(via lostsplendor)

Unknown young man, ambrotype, c. 1855-60

Submitted by Jacek Dehnel

Jude Law, c. 1860. Another cinematic time-traveling boyfriend, this time from Cold Mountain.

Submitted by Lisa

Football team, c. 1895-1910 (Library of Congress via Shorpy)

Submitted by charles116

From the submitter, Nancy Tompkins:

“My grandfather, Roy Harold Funkhouser, in about 1922 at Iowa State University. He was married for 65 years, had two children and four grandchildren and lived a long happy life and died at 96, still a handsome man.”

Well done, boyfriend.

Samuel Arnold, convicted in a (failed) plot to kidnap Lincoln and hold him in an exchange for Confederate prisoners, photographed here in the same roundup as Lewis Powell.

While Powell was executed with the other conspirators, Arnold was sentenced to life in prison but was pardoned by Andrew Johnson four years later.

James Williams, arrested for larceny, 1902. (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum)

Submitted by lievbengever

Unknown young man with light eyes and dark hair, 1855.

Submitted by Sarah Nehama

Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, age 23, 1891. This New Zeland book collector amassed a library of 55,000 over his lifetime and somehow still found the time to groom an excellent moustache.  

Submitted by Edmund King

Josiah Johnson Hawes, by Albert Sands Southworth c. 1840. Hawes & Southworth were a photographic duo and opened one of the first daguerreotype studios in the US.