Beards Collection

Sir Ernest Shackleton and others, Antarctic
Sir Ernest Shackleton and three members of a polar exploration party, photographed within 111 miles of the South Pole in 1907-9 on board the Nimrod

DREADNOUGHT HOAX
VIRGINIA WOOLF as a young woman, with Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton, Guy Ridley and Horace Cole as " The Emperor of Abyssinia and His Suite"

The Beard and Moustache Movement, John Leech
The Beard and Moustache Movement, cartoon in Punch by John Leech commenting on the fashion for large beards. Railway Guard: Now, ma am, is this your luggage

Carthusian Monks
Carthusian monks of the tranquil monastery of La Valsainte, Switzerland, drinking from the village well, oblivious of World War Two. Date: early 1940s

Georges Melies
GEORGES MELIES French film director (on the left); first to film fictional narratives using scripts etc. Photographed here with his collaborator, EMILE COLE

Lenin / Kalinin / 1920
VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN Sitting with M Kalinin

Bearded Man C1870
A Victorian gentleman with a splendid beard

Gossip about Fairies 24
Fairies live on good terms with animals and birds - here, fairies are combing goats beards, something which goats themselves find it hard to do, having no hands (or combs)

Bearded Policemen
The Police wear Beards and Moustaches : Panic among the Street Boys

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
FRIEDRICH ENGELS German political theorist working on Das Kapital with Marx Date: 1820 - 1895

Ancient Assyrian clothing worn by a chief minister and King. Date: B.C

Anglo-Saxons: short tunic with girdle & short vertical slit from the neck, short tunic with side vents & broad embroidered border. N.B forked beards. Date: 10th & 11th century

EDWARD VII / RIRE 1903
EDWARD VII With Emile Loubet, President of France, at the time of the signing of an Entente Cordiale with Britain Date: 1903

LEVI / HERMANN / BAYREUTH
HERMANN LEVI German conductor with Dr Hans RICHTER and Felix MOTTL. The figure just out of shot is Cosima Wagner. Date: 1839 - 1900

CRIMEAN OFFICERS PHOTO
The Officers of the 48th Regiment of Foot (Northamptonshire) pose for a group photograph somewhere in the Crimea Date: 1855

Youthful Parisian Music Hall Revue Company pose in costume for their satirical number lampooning Emile Pataud, the deeply unpopuar (at the time) Secretary to the French Union of Electricians

Costume / Ancient Assyria
ANCIENT ASSYRIA The clothing worn by a Priest and an Ancient Assyrian King. Date: B.C

Beard / Louis Coulon 1904
Monsieur Louis Coulon of Montlucon, France, and his 3.3 metre beard

Ainu Couple - Japan
The Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo) - indigenous people or groups in Japan (Hokkaido) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands). Ainu men often wear heavy beards

Tartar Priests from the Sergach District - Russia
Two Priests from the Volga Tartars from the Sergach District - Russia. Date: circa 1910s

Armaillis (Swiss Cowherds / Shepherds) - Gruyeres, Switzerland. Date: circa 1930s

Homeless men by J O Brien
No-goods or might-be-goods? The Faces of the Night. Victims of our social system or of their own faults? Men of the under-world Character sketches of homeless men to be seen each night sleeping in

Two Rishis - India
Two Rishis. In the Vedas (the oldest scriptures of Hinduism) the term Rishi denotes an inspired poet of Ṛ igvedic hymns, who alone or with others invokes the deities with poetry

Mrs Hannah Cowley
HANNAH COWLEY writer, author of The school for Grey Beards, etc. Date: 1743 - 1809

Hannah Cowley & Book
HANNAH COWLEY writer, author of The school for Grey Beards, etc. holding a book. Date: 1743 - 1809

Men at Physiopolis
Physiopolis, a health club where men can sunbathe and relax together. Date: 1930s

James Lloyd Ashbury (1834 1895), British yachtsman and Conservative Party politician. Splendid example of a beard. Date: 1874

Beard / Bradshaw Photo
A late Victorian gentleman with a phenomenal beard. Date: circa 1900

Boyars Beards Trimmed
In his efforts to introduce Western customs into Russia, Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards. This satire shows him trimming the beard of a Boyar. Date: 1698

Beards greenhouse Date: circa 1850

Five types of soldier, Russia, WW1
Five types of Russian soldier who fought in the First World War, a mixture of educated (1 and 3), Moujik or peasant (2), Bolshevik (4) and Cossack (5). Date: 1917-1918

Old Selkup fishermans face (Northern minority). Selkup Tamelkin, lives on secluded bank of river Hudosey, North Tumen region, Siberia, autumn

Group photo of men in a garden, some with beards, others with moustaches, looking happy and relaxed

A. D. Nineteen Fifty
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, originally published in The Bystander magazine on 29 September 1915 and subsequently issued as part of his Fragments from France, and, as here

Elizabeth Gatley and her bearded brothers
Elizabeth Gatley (Lee) and her bearded brothers, Richard, John, Henry, Thomas, James and William! James (second from left - seated) is in mourning for his wife, hence the black armband

Old man 1910
An old man with beard, stock and hat, 1910. Date: 1910

Initiation of the Prince of Jersualem
Wearing pretend beards, the Brothers reward the recipients dedication on a recent mission with kisses and a golden crown made of paper. Date: 1890s

Optimist and pessimists - postcard by George Ranstead
Postcard by George Ranstead, amateur soldier artist of the Great War featuring three miserable looking hairy men with long beards, looking with suspicion at an optimist who is grinning broadly

Ossetian soldiers - northern Georgian
Ossetian soldiers in tradition attire. They carry a wide variety of swords and daggers, their coats are adorned with cartridge pouches and they sport fabulously extensive facial hair!

Monsieur Coulon and his amazing beard
Monsieur Louis Coulon (b.1826 in Vandenesse, France) - a Mould-maker of Montlucon, who had a record-breaking beard (3.3m) - pictured here being held by two children

Mediums William and Ira Davenport
Undated illustration of American mediums and spiritualists William and Ira Davenport. The Davenport Brothers were instrumental in building the popularity of the American Spiritualist movement prior

Izmir, Turkey - Jewish bead seller
Jewish bead sellers at the market in Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

A. D. 19(?)
Two veteran Tommies with Methuselah-like beards are still manning the trenches of the Western front in an unspecified year sometime in the future; a light-hearted comment on the endless

E-F Loubet / Leandre / Rire
EMILE-FRANCOIS LOUBET French President (1899-1906) greeting Edward VII at the time of the signing of an Entente Cordiale with Britain

Peter as Hairdresser
Determined to westernise his country, Peter forbids the wearing of beards at court and taxes those who retain them : he personally shaves some of his boyar entourage

Fashion Men & Boy 1841
Boy: pantaloons & short jacket. Men: top hats with tall crowns, strapped pantaloons, cut-away coat with collar & lapels, green waistcoat, D-B coat with full skirt

Greek Ortho Priests 1983
Three Greek Orthodox priests officiating in a service on the departure of the sponge fishermen, at Kalymnos, Greece

Carnegie and Colleagues
ANDREW CARNEGIE American industrialist and humanitarian, seen here with his cousin, George N.Lauder and Thomas N.Miller in 1862

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