Mutton Chops

Mutton Chops.

That's what this form of whiskering is called.

Aside from looking different, I don't know what the point of this is.

Still, I'll broker no negative comments about this style. As a college-aged youth, I sported this facial configuration of hair. It makes sense if the ledge between y0ur nose and lip isn't big enough to support an interesting 'stache. (I mean, you don't want to look like Terry Richardson. No matter how ironic you may feel.)

You may as well go bare-faced. Because, you could never grow anything like this that would look cool.

I know now.

By Powelson
306 Main Street
Cor. of Erie
Buffalo, N.Y.
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches



Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches




J. O'Neil
949 Broadway
Bet. 22D & 23D Sts.
N.Y.
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

One of a Kind

I don't know what you call this style of facial hair. I don't know where he even got the idea for these whiskers. But they're spectacular. So spectacular, that this guy gets his own page, all to himself.

By Stone's Great Northern
Photo. and Copying House
Potsdam, N.Y.

Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

Beard, No 'Stache

Painted Tintype, glued into a paper frame

2.25 x 4 inches

By Edsall, West Side Gallery
487 Eighth Avenue
Near 34th street
New York

Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

By F. Wheaton Smith
Attleboro, Mass.
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

Van Dykes

I give you: the Van Dyke (in various forms.)

By R.H. Buttorff
(successor to J. Jeanes)
637 Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

By Fritz
652 Penn St.
Reading, PA
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

This guy is way too young to have grown such a fine set of whiskers. There must have been something in the water in Pennsylvania in those days.

Moustaches with a Soul Patch

Photo by A.K.P. Trask
1210 Chesnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

4.5 x 6.25 inches

Photo by Caldwell
143 Main Street, Brockton

Stage Moustaches?

I don't know if this is the same guy or not (no doubt, a different photo for each of his wives in three different cities) but I'm pretty certain that those have to be stuck on moustaches.

Photo by J.D. Strunk
730 Penn St., Reading, PA
("Instantaneous process used exclusively")
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

By Sparks Studio
Marshalltown, IA
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

Jim T. Puce
Lexington, MO
Law Class '74, Mich. Univ.
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

Moustaches

F.W. Sherburne Photographic Studio
Barre, VT
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches.

Maenabb Portraits
813 Broadway, New York
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches.

W.E. Service
No. 4E Commerce St., Bridgeton, N.J.
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches.

Burnsides

Burnsides: named for the Civil War era General Ambrose E. Burnsides (1824-1881.) He's shown above in two Mathew Brady photos, the first c. 1862 and the latter, c. 1880. Despite the spectacular whiskers, he was a mediocre general.

The word was later flipped to give us "sideburns."

By The Notman Photographic Co. of Boston
(and Albany, Saratoga and Newport, RI.)

Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

By Caldwell at 143 Main Street

Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

By M. F. King
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

More Beards

But full beards that have been carefully crafted.

Photo of "Dr. Mack" by the Pierson Brothers of
Elizabeth, NJ, and Nanepashemet, Mass.
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches.

"Frank B. Jaggers, age 28" by Price of Newark, NJ.
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches.

By Holding & Edwards, Lynchburg, VA.
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches.

Let's Start

What else but with a full beard to start.

(6 x 9 inches)

(5 x 7 inches)

(Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches)