- Photo Collection
- Photographs of Men 1850s & 1860s.
- Photographs of Men 1870s & 1880s.
- Photographs of Men from the Turn of the 20th Century
- Photographs of Men from the teens and 1920s.
- Slideshow of Historical Images of Men
- Slideshow of Historical Images of Women - Bustle Era
- Slideshow of Historical Images of Women - Hoop Era
1840s Gentleman
This fellow is a portrait that has been in my wife's family collection forever. He is unidentified, but generally called "The Spanish Gentleman".
He provides an excellent view of a well dressed man of the 1830s or 40s, in the years just before black became the required color for all of a man's formal wardrobe. His bottle green coat is probably a tail coat, but could be an early frock coat with flared skirts.
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