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Nov 15 2013

Great mustaches of the Iowa Digital Library

Posted on November 15, 2013December 2, 2016 by Hannah Scates Kettler

The libraries and archives that feature historic mustache images — from NYPL to the Smithsonian to our own Special Collections — are kicking into high gear in honor of Movember, so we thought we’d join in. Stealing from In tribute to the Library of Congress’ collection, we present some of the great mustaches of the Iowa Digital Library. Special thanks go to Wendy Robertson for her mustache-searching expertise.

UI President Charles A. Schaeffer, 1893  |  University of Iowa Yearbooks
UI President Charles A. Schaeffer, 1893 | University of Iowa Yearbooks
College of Dentistry Dean W.S. Hosford, 1908  |  Dentistry College Class Photographs
W.S. Hosford, 1908 | Dentistry College Class Photographs
Unidentified man, circa 1879  |  Pioneer Lives
Unidentified man, circa 1879 | Pioneer Lives
J.L. Small, 1885  |  Dentistry College Class Photographs
J.L. Small, 1885 | Dentistry College Class Photographs
General James B. Weaver, 1907  |  Traveling Culture - Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th C.
General James B. Weaver, 1907 | Traveling Culture – Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th C.
Billy Brooks, 1930s  |  Mujeres Latinas
Billy Brooks, 1930s | Mujeres Latinas

Personal favorite:

L.K. Fullerton, 1885  |  Dentistry College Class Photographs
L.K. Fullerton, 1885 | Dentistry College Class Photographs

Mustache manuscript:

Leigh Hunt letter to Charles Ollier, 1854  |  Leigh Hunt Letters
Leigh Hunt letter to Charles Ollier, 1854 | Leigh Hunt Letters

“I have not been idle, nor has my beard been growing for nothing. Had it not vented its energies this way, it would assuredly have struck towards the table, with the intention of growing through it, like the dead Emperor’s that was found sitting in the mausoleum. Seriously, it is a curious & hopeful coincidence, at any rate, that my cough has continued to grow better & better, though my beard is but of a month’s existence. I cannot afford to confine myself to the moustache &c., as you do; for I have, or have had, a regular cough, which you have not. Moustaches may do well enough for occasional coughs; but the cough proper demands the whole hairy investment.”

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