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Washington, D.C., 1923. "John F. Keeley, Department of Commerce." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
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.
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. . .
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.
Nobody ever thinks about stuff like what Harry Potter will look like when he gets old.
The eyes of T.J. Eckleburg!
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."
is quite saucy, for such an otherwise staid appearance.
Would not be so bad if it were not accented by those headlight glasses.
That is a hard stare, or those glasses were made from the bottoms of coke bottles.
His eyes remind me of a lemur's.
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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