BS: Can anyone ID this man?

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 07:26 PM

Composer, maybe. Have to look through some of the biog. books.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:57 PM

Macaulay Culkin, after years of hard partying!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:54 PM

Nope, I don't buy Lee, either. Check the trim of the mustache which gives a different feel to the mouth. Also, Lee did a side part, and though it's debatable, it looks more like a comb back on your mysterious gentleman.

The clothes are not his style, again.

Also, if it was Lee I would think another copy would show up online.

~ B in LB

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Lox
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:39 PM

Sorry guys, but it is not any of the possibles suggested so far.

Kendall - you're gonna have to trace the ownership of the victrola you found it in.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:37 PM

I think that's a computer keyboard in the background. Probably Babbage or Hollerith.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:36 PM

Look at his hair - he has a cowlick or a natural curl on his right (left side in photo). It's in the photos of Lee and it's apparent in this photo. He doesn't look like Whitman or Bell - look at the shapes of their heads. Lee wore his beard the same way most the time - there are too many points of similarity (to take the term from fingerprinting) between Lee and the photo for it to be any of the other suggestions.

Kendall's Photo and Robert E. Lee (enlarge that one and compare the brows, the nose, the beard and hair). Kendall's photo has whiter hair, so I'd guess that is later. Lee died in 1870.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:30 PM

Bell's whiskers are a different shape. He also is not quite so beautifully dressed. (It's easier to see the trends if you look at one of 'em at a time, Amos.)

Someone in the newspaper trade? (in these portraits, often the props are intentional: he's leaning on a writing desk, with newspaper in hand...)

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:25 PM

That's my great uncle "Peg Leg" Henry Pascalin a police photo taken after he kicked in the liquor store window in Chipman, New Brunswick, Canada back in tha 30s. I can tell by the mole that looks like a maple leaf.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:20 PM

Any marks identifying the photographer, Captain?

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:17 PM

It is probably one of these guys for sure.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:15 PM

I always assumed it was a family photo that was left inside.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 06:09 PM

Way too dressed up and trimmed up for Walt.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: olddude
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 05:58 PM

By the way here is an early Archive photo of Walt
Walt

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: olddude
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 05:55 PM

absolutely you have a great photo I believe of Walt Whitman the great poet. Go to his galley of images on the web. Dead ringer. Probably valuable also

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Lox
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 05:40 PM

Can anyone date the clothing or any other bits and bobs in the photo?

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 05:40 PM

jacqui.c, Your crocheting is certainly beautiful!!! You are indeed talented there!!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 05:36 PM

Looks sorta like Bobert!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 05:23 PM

Robert E Lee was related to Helen Keller-She was a close friend of Alexander Graham Bell.
Helen Keller was a socialist-Graham Bell was a Canadian (though born in Scotland).

Keller dedicated her autobiography to Bell, where she said: 'You have always shown a father's joy in my success and a father's tenderness when things have not gone right.'

Need I say more?

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 04:44 PM

Looks like Lee and Bell. Something fishy here?

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 04:44 PM

Alexander Graham Bell was the first thought that came to my mind, too.

Either him, or maybe Kendall - with hair...

-Joe, without hair-

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 04:15 PM

I'd definitely go for Lee over Bell. They eyebrows are dark on both; Bell's were white. Also the shape of the hair and beard are the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Gurney
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 04:11 PM

Ho looks like my pal Jack Robinson, so he's probably Geordie. Descended, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 03:28 PM

Looks like Robert E. Lee.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 03:24 PM

A close resemblance to Bell in this photo

Bell

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 03:12 PM

As Ivan B said, it sure looks like him

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: IvanB
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 03:00 PM

Alexander Graham Bell

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 02:57 PM

Well, we can eliminate Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Enrico Caruso, "Lewd" van Beethoven, Johnny Bach, and Wolfy Mozart. He also doesn't look like Amos, but there is some slight resemblance to Bobert.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 02:54 PM

I suspect it is a senator, from the stance! :D

A

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 02:48 PM

I don't recognize him, but if he came over to repossess my swamp buggy, I would be mighty afeared:)

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 02:23 PM

Resembles Robert E. Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 02:08 PM

Kendall Morse in his younger years?

You're right -- he does look familiar, but I can't place him at the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 01:28 PM

Photo Here

Subject: RE: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: bobad
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 01:27 PM

Is it the invisible man?

Subject: BS: Can anyone ID this man?
From: kendall
Date: 08 Sep 11 - 01:26 PM

I found this photo inside an ancient Victrola that Sinsull gave me. He looks very familiar but I can't place him. HELP.