“Darling, won’t you put on the Klangophone this evening? I do so feel like dancing!”
Like any smart inventor, Thomas Edison knew that his new audio device needed a name, a catchy name.
Robert Graves, c. 1914, age 19. Reported dead at the Somme, Graves was one of the few of his generation to survive the war. He became a translator, poet, and novelist, and was the author of I, Claudius. Graves died at the age of 90 in 1985, a model Daguerreotype boyfriend if there ever was one.
Puffin-Hunter, Faroe Islands, c. 1900.
Hey girl, you got a puffin problem? No worries, I got it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt at 18, 1900.
Looks like someone needs to be inaugurated into our Hall of Hottest Presidents.
Sioux Indian smoking a cigarette, 1908.
Lionel Logue, age 26. Australian speech therapist responsible for the un-stammering of King George VI. Here he is with his future wife, 21-year-old Myrtle Gruenert.
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