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Mr. Bureaucrat: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 4:30pm.
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Washington, D.C., 1923. "John F. Keeley, Department of Commerce." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Our astonishing civil servants
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 11:43pm.
Its easy to mock the people that created the Civil Service in the Federal Government. They are odd ducks in many ways. But, we had the best and the brightest government employees in the world, bar none. Now. Not so much. My hat is off to these guys. They helped to build America into the leading nation in the world.
Thank goodness styles evolve
Submitted by NeeNee on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 9:22pm.
Ill-fitting is the adjective that comes to mind.
But I've seen other men in similar time period photos wearing suits that were---shall we say---snug. Now that I think about it, I have a customer who's 80 and all his clothes fit like this. He's very short, with a slight build. Makes me wonder if somehow it wasn't considered showing off what God gave ya. Kinda like some young guys wear muscle shirts. . .
Protector of Commerce
Submitted by stanton_square on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 8:33pm.
Caption for different photo but possibly taken the same day (no glasses but tie looks similar). Apparently he protected the "business men" but business women were on their own.
Washington Post, Aug 29, 1923In charge of the task of stopping the theft of merchandise in transit. John F. Keeley, of the Department of Commerce, is saving business men hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Wizard!
Submitted by tterrace on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 8:32pm.
Nobody ever thinks about stuff like what Harry Potter will look like when he gets old.
Great Scott, er Gatsby!
Submitted by tweety on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 7:53pm.
The eyes of T.J. Eckleburg!
Soon to be a major motion picture
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 7:05pm.
John Francis Keeley, author of:
"Packing for Foreign Markets" (1924, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington)
Department of Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Julius Klein, director. "Prepared at the suggestion of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress. Foreign port facilities and equipment."
His tie
Submitted by Retread on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 6:15pm.
is quite saucy, for such an otherwise staid appearance.
That deer in the headlights stare
Submitted by aenthal on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 6:03pm.
Would not be so bad if it were not accented by those headlight glasses.
Bugeyed
Submitted by mhallack on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 5:56pm.
That is a hard stare, or those glasses were made from the bottoms of coke bottles.
Those eyes
Submitted by Born40YearsTooLate on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 5:28pm.
His eyes remind me of a lemur's.
After 5
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 5:04pm.
Maybe the tie gets loosened. And if that top button is unbuttoned (or pops off), watch out. Par-tay Animal is on the prowl!
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