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Facial Hair of Note: Daniel C. Beard
October 22, 2012
Archivist Jennifer Snyder returns with a new installment of Facial Hair of Note.
Daniel Carter Beard, founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, a youth program that merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. Beard was an illustrator as well as an outdoorsman.
At some point someone felt this portrait of Beard needed to be “improved”—the book with hands and feet has been pasted to the original photograph, making for an amusing collage!
Jennifer Snyder works with oral history interviews at the Archives American Art. When not sending interviews out for digitization, she is writing about extraordinary examples of facial hair for this blog.
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