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Guys and Dogs: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 2:29am.
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Orange, Virginia, circa 1910. "Woodberry Forest baseball team." And a couple of mascots. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Some real "studmuffins'' here!
Submitted by noelani on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 3:41pm.
I see about a half dozen here who could have made it as Hollywood heartthrobs! I also wonder about WWI. I would think the average age of these guys would have been about 24, when America entered the war. They were certainly a much higher educated group, overall, and I would bet that most of them would have been officers. Young officers also go into dangerous territory during war, but probably had a better chance of survival than the young recruits. The bat boy here may have been the most likely to have become a casualty in "The Great War."
King of the world?
Submitted by rava on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:42am.
The guy in the middle back looks a bit like Leo DiCaprio to me.
Makes me a little sad...
Submitted by humboldthny on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:11pm.
...to see these boys. I wonder how many of them survived WWI?
Re: Ears
Submitted by fanhead on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 9:34pm.
I was told by my late mother that when I was born (1950) my grandmother gave her strict orders to make sure I always slept on my side to preclude the Dumbo syndrome that would be the result of sleeping on my back. Thanks to Granny I am often complimented on my well trained ears.
Prep school
Submitted by paws22 on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 3:28pm.
Woodberry Forest was (and is) a private prep school which sent many of its graduates to the University of Virginia. I have several UVa yearbooks from the 1910s which show a very active alumni group for Woodberry Forest.
Slackers
Submitted by arnnmann on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 2:41pm.
Hey, shouldn't these guys be at work? No coal mines in Virginia? It's 1910. They're teenagers. How else they gonna build character?
Just wondering
Submitted by protogenes on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:41am.
Were ears bigger 100 years ago?
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