Historical Hotties

Mama’s mussy is pumpin’ and splashin’ like a butter churn on a plantation porch!

Ramon Novarro

William McKinley, 25th US President:

The Titanic's Fifth Officer Harold G. Lowe was a stud of the first order.

Thanks for adding sugar and flavoring to ground up hooves Pearle!

Cutie Pearle Bixby Wait wasn't very clever and quickly sold Jello for a couple hundred bucks. The purchaser Orator Woodward became fabulously wealthy.

Rutherford B. Hayes.

Oh MY, R7. Who knew??

R6, maybe foxy Pearle Bixby Wait made the right call. After all, he evaded the Jell-O Curse visited upon generations of Orator Woodward’s family, as detailed in this ham-fisted feminist essay by a family survivor, who somehow doesn’t appreciate being a fucking heiress.

r8 Hayes wasn't just a pretty face. He said in 1886 something which addresses our current concerns: "Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age."

If you're into bearish types, Ulysses S Grant.

r11 He looks like the character of Grant on the TV series "The Wild Wild West."

Hey OP, your guy shares a first name with iconic Western author Zane Grey, whose first name is Pearl, no final e. Yes, that's right, his name was Pearl Grey. 😏

The guy in the middle.

He looks like he's seen a lot.

Young Alfred Kinsey

From a tombstone. Surely an early DL'er.

I love a straight brow line.

From the 1936 Olympics.

1944, age 18 (someone's grandpa on Reddit).

Grampy needs some tweezers.

Anselm Feuerbach (whoever that is).

1959 Mr. Colorado contest.

Young Goodman Hawthorne

R21's guy is hot AF! There is so much going on in that face!

The legendary 1907/1908 LSU football team:

R25 I don't know, but it looks to me like Coach Winguard is about to fly right out of there.

Nikola Tesla

Boris Pasternak.

The tall one...

Gerald Ford - total hottie.

R10 Hayes was awarded disputed electoral votes in exchange for agreeing to kill Reconstruction. He was a disgrace to his party and country.

Almanzo

And, Blanche/R26, check out C.C. Bauer (looks a cross between young Cary Grant and young Matt LeBlanc), seemingly mesmerized by Doc Fenton's ass.

OP: I LOVE the name of your thread

Is that a young Boris Yeltsin (2nd to the right @R30)?

Unemployed lumber worker

R34 CC also has his pants legs rolled up to his knees like knee pads, so perhaps he was planning to get down on them after the photo was taken and investigate Doc’s backfield.

Dr. Samuel Pozzi

Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde)

Prince Alexander Konstantinovich Gorchakov, by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, 1904.

From the "Gods and Foolish Grandeur" blog:

[quote] I've been unable to find very much on the life of this handsome Prince Gorchakov. Born on 17 September 1875 in Vaud, Switzerland, he was the third son of Prince Konstantin Alexandrovich Gorchakov - Russian ambassador to, variously, Switzerland, Saxony, and Spain - and Princess Maria Mikhailovna Sturdza. In 1904 - the year this portrait was painted - he married Daria Mikhailovna Bibikova (1883-1962), a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Fighting in World War I, he was seriously wounded at the front and died in a St. Petersburg hospital from his injuries on 18 March 1916 at the age of only forty. He was buried in the cemetery of the monastery of St. John of Kronstadt.

R40 - Looks like Tom Holland!

R37 looks fake as hell. That woman, too.

My stars, R33. No wonder Laura nicknamed him "Manly."

Hermann Rorschach (of Rorschach Test fame).

Hermann looks like a sibling of Brad Pitt.

R42

Let's try that again....

Young Che

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich

Five head —meh.

Kinda meh, R4.

I follow this digital creator on his Instagram called "Bringing History to Life." He takes historical photos and brings them to life with AI, creating short videos imagining what the person(s) looked like IRL, when they were talking, moving, and especially smiling, since it used to not be a thing to do when getting your photo taken in past times.

Here's an example of a short video he's created from a photo of Rupert Brooke, whom W.B, Yeats once referred to as "the handsomest young man in England."

The caption reads:

[quote] This striking portrait captures Rupert Brooke in his early twenties, at the height of his literary promise. Known for his idealistic war sonnets and classical beauty, Brooke became a symbol of youthful hope just before the world was swallowed by war. Born in 1887, Brooke studied at Cambridge and quickly became a rising star in the Georgian poetry movement. His words carried both a romanticism and a longing that seemed to mirror the fragility of the era itself. This image, originally used as the frontispiece for the 1918 posthumous collection Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke with a Memoir, evokes his quiet intensity and introspective charm. His poem “The Soldier” remains one of the most quoted reflections on patriotism and loss. Brooke died tragically young in 1915 during World War I, not on the battlefield, but from sepsis on his way to Gallipoli. His early death only deepened the mythic aura that surrounded him—forever remembered not just as a poet, but as a portrait of a generation lost.

Video from IG: bringing_history_to_life

^

Ans this is one of my favorite creations from that guy. The subject is unknown.

[quote] Believed to be a young university student—perhaps American, perhaps English—this dignified figure is known only by the affectionate name “Alexander.” With his sharply parted hair, quill in hand, and crisp waistcoat, he appears every bit the aspiring scholar or gentleman on the rise. Resting his hand on a book and a fabric inscribed with the word Cornwall, we’re left to wonder: was it a reference to a town, a college, or a family name?

[quote] Captured in the ethereal light of a daguerreotype, his gaze is piercing, his future unknown. No photographer’s mark, no written record. Just a single frozen moment of youth, ambition, and 19th-century elegance.

Can we please NOT with the creepy-ass AI shit?

Not interested until they show Rupert Brooke, notorious for his skinny dipping, whip out his dick.

So he makes shit up, poorly. TIA

R43, that may be, but it's a famous Dorothea Lange photo.

Enhanced not original

This guy was posted by one of his grandchildren. Those are some incredible pearly whites he's sporting there!

Stalin

Someone's grandfather, from Reddit.

Wish I could see the rear view.

Engelmann.

Naked gunner

That's a great story, but why did the gunner's "stripping down" to rescue Schaffer include stripping off his underwear? Was he not wearing any?

Maybe he just pulled everything off and dove in? Guess we'll never know...

We may never know, but we can be eternally grateful.

Click image for a clearer view

The guy standing on the far left hand on the hip has such attitude and is such a hottie, the guy standing in the center is pretty hot too.

All I know about the photo is it was taken in Arlington, Va. Brig. Gen. Gustavus A. DeRussey (third from left) and staff on portico of Arlington House

This is a fun thread. Thanks, OP!

R43 Another shot of the couple in the tent:

She was 5' 9". he was 5' 6".

R33- I’ve seen his photo before- The real Almonzo Wilder was very good looking. Always on tv the actors are far more attractive than the historical characters they’re portraying. Not here. The real Almonzo Wilder was considerably better looking than Dean Butler ( he was blandly good looking).

Where'd his parents come up with the name Almonzo ?

I look at R45's picture and I see a marsh on a dewey morning, with weeping willows off to the sides. And in the middle, two cops are looking for a body.

So you’re a zoophile, R79?

The Most Handsome Men of the Past – Brought to Life

Francis Wright Fabyan, Jr.

Silent film actor Harold Lloyd.

R81 Someone upthread already shared that AI slop.

And I don't get why you'd post something, then apologize for it. Did you ride the short bus to school as a kid?

I always had a thing for young Gustav Mahler.

No one knows his name, but he sure was handsome!

R45, I would have said Josh Harnett