Old photo can someone explain

[jtw1313]

Why is everyone in this photo looking different directions and guy in middle looking forward......the guy in middle looks so fimiliar I have two of these photos. The guys are also wearing little ribbons

 

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[2Minnesota]

The hidden hand is a sign of the master (Mason's).??
Image from https://veritasvincitinternational....01/screen-shot-2015-01-18-at-10-33-46-pm1.png.

Oops, didn't read all the replies first.

 

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[Ant]

And the photographer would have the subjects freeze in a comfortable pose while the photograph was being taken, it took several seconds or more for the film (silver plate?) to be exposed. If the subject moved the got a blurry images and quadruple exposures, the Masonic clue is a good one.

 

[Frankyg]

Bottom left, Lenin ?

 

[sutphin]

THE GUY WITH THE HAND JUST INSIDE THE SUIT COAT HAD JUST PUT THE WHISKEY FLASK AWAY WHEN THE PHOTOG TOLD THEM TO HOLD IT . LOOKS TO ME EITHER BANKERS OR ?/ NEAT PHOTO ...

 

[DCMatt]

sutphin said:

LOOKS TO ME EITHER BANKERS OR

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Not bankers. Nobody trusts a banker with facial hair.

I think these guys are academics or politicians.

The guy in the back row on the left looks like an aging Victor Berger of Wisconsin - the first Socialist to serve in the United States Congress.

 

[jtw1313]

Maybe socialist convention photo?

 

[DCMatt]

Maybe socialist convention photo?

I worked that angle a little. If it is I would expect to see Eugene Debs in the photo - and he is not - unless it was taken after his death in 1926 and before Berger's death in '29.

Frankly, these old guys could be anybody.

It is interesting to me that none of them are young, they all have facial hair, and they are outside without their hats. Are a couple of them in evening wear? White tie?

 

[gilgar]

Why is everyone in this photo looking different directions and guy in middle looking forward

they're blind

 

[jtw1313]

One has no ribbon

 

[Lafitte Deux]

Maybe the middle guy is W. E. in retirement?

 

[G.I.B.]

It looks like the middle guy asked, "Okay, who farted?"

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Maybe the Masonic "hidden hand" pose.
Don.......

You nailed it. The top guy is goosing the 2 guys in the middle row and the bottom guys are just happy to be sitting down and out of reach

 

[tokameel]

Minnie skirts going past

Back then, a minnie-skirt was one that was almost up to the knees.

 

[jtw1313]

Is this that same guy in the middle

......

 

[tokameel]

Perhaps these gentelmen were watching the hot-air balloon races. And they all bet on a different contestant.