Major Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky, age 40, 1868. Adventurer, soldier, artist, and according to Wikipedia, an “amateur watercolorist.” What doesn’t this boyfriend do?
Submitted by PJ
My Daguerreotype Boyfriend
Where early photography meets extreme hotness
Nineteenth century pioneer hunter from Wyoming. Note the wide wale of the corduroy pant. The very wide wale.
Submitted by the NYRBClassics tumblr, which also points us to this passage in Thoreau’s journal where he purchases said pair of pants.
“Within a week I have had made a pair of corduroy pants, which cost when done $1.60. They are of that peculiar clay-color, reflecting the light from portions of their surface. They have this advantage, that, beside being very strong, they will look about as well three months hence as now,—or as ill, some would say. Most of my friends are disturbed by my wearing them.”
Sir Sandford Fleming. This Scottish-Canadian boyfriend was an inventor of timezones, explorer, engineer, and wearer of fabulous furs.
For more proof, check out this studly Canadian Heritage Moment.
Submitted by JSFMacL3
Harvard Baseball Team, 1905. Harvard beats Yale, when it comes to boyfriends.
Submitted by orangerie-limonaia.
UPDATE: William Clarence Matthews was the single black player on the team and was called “Harvard’s best player.” Unable to fully join the professional leagues, he went to law school and passed the bar, becoming legal counsel to Marcus Garvey in the 1920s.
Thank you to everyone who submitted the father of all boyfriends on his 224th birthday, Louis Daguerre! Without him, we would never have known the true hotness of the nineteenth century.
Occupational portrait of a latchmaker, c. 1850-60. Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Submitted by Katie
Unknown World War I soldier. Happy Armistice Day everyone.
Submitted by sophisticated-tourettes
Vladimir Mayakovsky, age 31, 1924. Photograph by Aleksandr Rodchenko.
Unhinged Russian poet boyfriend. The best kind.
Portrait of Young Mr. Hayden, a native of New Orleans, c. 1850
Michael Peter Ancher, Danish artist and member of The Skagen Painters group, c. 1877.
Submitted by lacalaveracatrina
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