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[Man wearing tuxedo, holding bowler hat] – Historic Print

[Man wearing tuxedo, holding bowler hat], H.A. Thomas & Wylie Lith. Co. — historic image
[Man wearing tuxedo, holding bowler hat], H.A. Thomas & Wylie Lith. Co.. Historic image from the Family Life collection.

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This rare historic image captures [Man wearing tuxedo, holding bowler hat] in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Few garments of the 1890s show the shift in evening dress as clearly as the tuxedo worn by this man, who holds a bowler hat at his side. The dinner jacket took its name from Tuxedo Park, the New York enclave where it was first worn in place of tails around 1886, and by the mid-1890s it had spread beyond club life into ordinary social occasions. The bowler, first made in London in 1849, was the standard town hat of the period, so pairing the two suggests a man dressed for the city rather than the formal ballroom. The sheet was lithographed in New York around 1896 by H.A. Thomas & Wylie.

Created / publishedH.A. Thomas & Wylie Lith. Co.
Subjects[N.Y. : H.A. Thomas & Wylie Litho. Co., c1896]
Original scan2,046 × 2,664 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi
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