This cabinet card portrait features an older gentleman with an interesting “billy goat” beard. The Cabinet Card Gallery has an interesting collection of photographs of men with remarkable beards. You can access these images by clicking on the category “Beards and Mustaches (Only the Best)”. This particular photograph was taken by photographer, Jonathan Millard Brainerd (1851-1926). Brainerd operated a studio in Rome, New York and was a friend of famed photography entrepreneur, George Eastman. Brainerd has another photograph in the Cabinet Card Gallery and you can see that image, as well as learn more about him, if you click on the category “Photographer: Brainerd”. (SOLD)
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I’m trying to get in touch with the curator of this blog, but can’t seem to find where to do that. Any chance I can reach him or her here?
Aaron Alford
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:19 PM, THE CABINET CARD GALLERY wrote:
> bmarshphd posted: ” This cabinet card portrait features an older gentleman > with an interesting “billy goat” beard. The Cabinet Card Gallery has an > interesting collection of photographs of men with remarkable beards. You > can access these images by clicking on the category” >
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This style of beard was actually quite common during the 19th Century. It was generally called a “chin curtain”, because it did not grow alongside a mustache. It is also referred to as a Shenandoah beard and is still the regulation beard for the Amish. thanks for the pic!
Thanks for the information about beards. I guess this gentleman’s beard is only notable relative to present beard styling,