Whiskers Under the Chin

I wonder how this particular style came about. Was it meant to cover a scar? Or an unsightly adam's apple? Dirty collars?

By Sarony
Gold Medal Paris, 1878
37 Union Square
New York
Elevator from the Street
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

3.25 x 2.5 inches

By Stone's Great Northern
Photo. and Copying House
Potsdam, N.Y.
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

Mustaches, Again

Joseph McMartin
Chicago, Ill.
By Sam. B. Revenaugh, Photographer
28 Huron St.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches



By Walter P. Chase
First Floor Gallery
176 Water St.
Elmira, N.Y.
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches



By Edsall
West Side Gallery
487 Eighth Avenue
Near 34th St.
New York
Cabinet card, 4.25 x 6.5 inches

What to Add to a Mustache

One can do all sorts of things to augment a mustache: add a beard but leave it distinct from the 'stache, grow some chin whiskets or thin, long sideburns always look fancy.

By Sam. B. Revenauch
28 Huron Street
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

By Ed. B. Rogers' Gallery
Two doors E. of Opera House
Hamilton, O.
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

By Hostetter &Cass(damaged)
Minerva, Stark Co. Ohio
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches

Back to the 'Stache

After all the to-do over those fancy whiskering, it's time for the plain old mustache.

By A. G. Da Lee
Lawrence, Kansas
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches



By D. P. Groves
Opposite Cook's Hotel
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Carte de Visite, 2.5 x 4.25 inches




By Schulze
116 Stockton & 48 O'Farrell Sts.
San Francisco
3.25 x 5.25 inches, mounted to a 7 x 9 inch board

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