MyPinHolePinUps

Pin-ups from early photography; men whose looks smoulder down the centuries.  May contain traces of discreet vintage nudity.  (All images believed to be in the public domain, I will remove any image if a copyright problem emerges) #nsfw

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The draft board of the military registration and enlistment office in the Palace of Culture of Railwaymen, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, USSR. c1950s

[davidhudson]

Max Brod, May 27, 1884 – December 20, 1968.

With Franz Kafka in Venice.

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Wrestlers, McGill boxing, wrestling and fencing club. McCord Museum Montreal.

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Leipzig City History Museum

[kafkasapartment]

The Pastrycook, 1928. August Sander. Gelatin silver

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Self-portrait by photographer Frans G Klemming. c1890s. Stockholm Digital City Gallery.

[victoriantomodern]

Félix Nadar (1820-1910), Adrien Tournachon, 1854, gelatin-coated salted paper print. From the Visual Arts Legacy Collection (JSTOR)

[mypinholepinups]

'The photograph represents Adrien at about age thirty, when he was attempting to rival his brother. It shows a sensitive and curiously sly man--a poseur in an artist's sketching hat and smock. Disarming in its casualness, the portrait is also seductive, perhaps because the unforthcoming person who regards the viewer is simultaneously withholding and engaging--and consequently an enigmatic repository for reveries.' The Met.

[lovelyangryheart]

Tent Camp, NZ, 1905

[ed-blog4]

vintage sailor

[roscoe-conkling]

Portrait of William Workman Temple in military dress, a cabinet card made by the studio of Wilbur W. Wright of San Jose, California, on the occasion of the celebration of George Washington's birthday at Santa Clara College in 1869, where Temple was a student.

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1868-70, [tintype portrait of a demure cowboy wearing a hat, knife, revolver and boots with spurs]

via the Southern Methodist Central University Library, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection

[contracts-with-criminals]

A Bowery Boy from Peresis Hall, a male brothel in Manhattan 1890's

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St. Petersburg Bicycle-Athletic Club. (Cropped)

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Unknown origin.

[coimbraguy]

Enrique Granados, Spanish composer

[coimbraguy]

Kid Francis

Kid Francis aka Francesco Buonagurio, bantam-weight boxer, sent to a series of concentration camps during WWII, died during the death march in Trossin, April 1945