My Daguerreotype Boyfriend

The recent discovery of an unpublished D.H. Lawrence letter proves that he’s got your back, ladies. Writing in response to a misogynistic 1924 article titled “The Ugliness of Women,” Lawrence lay down the law: 

The hideousness {the author] sees is the reflection of himself, and of the automatic meat-lust with which he approaches another individual…Even the most “beautiful” woman is still a human creature. If {the author] approached her as such, as a being instead of as a piece of lurid meat, he would have no horrors afterwards. 

Thank you D.H. Lawrence, meat-lust warrior. (h/t Jezebel)

My Daguerreotype Boyfriend is featured in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Check it out on The One-Page Magazine, alongside the beautiful illustration above. 

michellelegro:

And I couldn’t be happier to have my name below such a sweet illustration. Thanks Kyle!

flannelanimal:

I couldn’t be happier with this recent, tiny illustration for The New York Times Magazine’s One Page Magazine.It accompanied a small article about “My Daguerrotype Boyfriend”, the awesome Tumblr of old-timey heartthrobs.  

Samuel Clemens (a.k.a Mark Twain), age 15, 1850. Daguerreotype taken when he was a printer in Hannibal, Missouri. 

Check out that baller belt-buckle! Are you as cool as fifteen-year-old Sam?

Update: That’s not a buckle! From a reader on Facebook: “He’s holding, with his right hand on its pistol grip (remember, these images are reversed), a typesetter’s composing stick, in which the metal type for his name are inserted, ready to print. He was smart enough to know that the image would be reversed, and thus show correctly in the photo!”

michellelegro:

Sometimes your Daguerreotype boyfriend might be a Daguerreotype girlfriend. 

explore-blog:

Women lived in germ-ridden camps, languished in appalling prisons, and died miserably, but honorably, for their country and their cause just as men did.

The untold stories of women who dressed and served as men in the Civil War

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It’s a colorized Lewis Powell! And we’re just fine with that…

Second Lt. James G. Sturgis. Killed in action at Little Big Horn.

Cumberbatch, is that you?

Submitted by thefutileprecaution

There’s a storm a-coming and we’re going to have to stay warm somehow, so let’s just take a moment to step away from the Daguerreotypes and say helllloooooo to Gene Kelly. 

Hey Gene. Hey.

(Source: latinamericana)

West Point football players Charles Love Mullins Jr. and Joseph Pescia Sullivan, 1913. (Shorpy)

Mullins survived both the First and Second World Wars, ascending to the position of Major General of the U.S. Army and living to the ripe old age of 84. Sullivan also became a Major General and died at the age of 83.

Dwight L. Moody, evangelical preacher. At age 18, Moody converted to evangelism while working in his uncle’s shoe store on Court Street in Boston. As a pacifist, he felt he could not enlist in the Union army, instead becoming involved with the YMCA and visiting soldiers on the front lines. Later, he would fill huge stadiums to capacity with his evangelical meetings around the U.S. and Europe.

Submitted by P. Allan

From the submitter Carl Rhodes:

R. F. Jameson, who was a month short of his twentieth birthday when he sat before an unknown daguerreotypist’s camera in Montrose, Pennsylvania, in October 1846.

Source: Dennis A. Waters Fine Daguerreotypes, Exeter, New Hampshire,  www.finedags.com

Anyone have an idea what Mr. Jameson is sitting next to? Is that a lamp?

UPDATE: Sources say it’s a microscope! Yay science! Here’s more information via shegetsby.

The microscope, undoubtedly Jameson’s prize possession, and rarely depicted in a daguerreotype, emphatically conveys his calling or avocation.