PRETTY WOMAN : WEARING TOP HAT : NOYER : REAL PHOTO POSTCARD

This French vintage real photo postcard features a pretty young woman, wearing a scarf and top hat. She has a beautiful smile that she is flashing at the camera. This postcard was published by Alfred Noyer. The card is part of a series (No.9538). SOLD

Published in: on October 8, 2025 at 12:00 pm  Leave a Comment  
Tags: ,

TOP HAT: FASHION STATEMENT IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN

This cabinet card photograph features a young man formally dressed with a top hat on his head. “Toppers”  became very popular at the end of the 18th century and remained in fashion to various degrees during the next two centuries. Viewing  the fashionable man in this photograph brings up the question, “in what settings does he wear the top hat?”.  The photographer is E. P. Baker of Detroit, Michigan. A Detroit business directory, published in 1873, lists Baker as owning a photographic studio at a different address than the address listed on this cabinet card.

Published in: on May 1, 2010 at 5:59 am  Comments (1)  
Tags: , ,