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

Sailors of yesteryear

Faaa-ke

Look at this image of the 1911 Georgetown Prep JV basketball team. What I find interesting about it is that the three guys on the left look like modern young men. However, the fourth from the left has that adult face you often see with kids and teenagers in photos from that era. That adult type face is what I’m used to seeing in old photos, so seeing modern looking guys in the same photo seems odd.

GenZ-er discovering the world….^

Wilfred Owen. Poet who was killed in action during WWI. Yes, he was gay.

What poem?

Was he won of those poopy poppy poets?

Hysterical that at least 90% of this thread is one person.

Also funny it’s the poster who chased off Vintage Beefcake, just so they can cosplay as them

Which number do I block to get rid of 90% of the thread? I tried one and only disappeared 17 posts.

Swedish Swimmers, c. 1910

Re-peat

Swedes are not very hirsute, are they?

R98 = Dionne Warwick

Handsome cowboy.

Quite the bulge.

DAY-um.

same damn photos we see in every quarterly repeat of this thread.

Johannes Brahms (age 20)

R104 that’s from The Zone of Interest

;)

C. Atwood, 6th Maine Infantry

C. Clark, 6th Maine Infantry

C. Clark and his brothers

Well, you've got the "historical" part down, but I'm not sure about the "hottie" part.

T. Clark, 11th Maine Infantry with great mustache.

John McWilliams, 21st Maine Infantry

P Drew 3rd Michigan Cavalry

J. Hanekom, South Africa, 1958 Olympics.

Russian WWII officer. I think he's striking, I bet he had light blue eyes.

R115 too funny —there was no such thing as the 1958 Olympics. Clearly you’re not a sports fan.

Rafael Eloy Martinez de Jaramillo-Quemado y Pombal, XXIII Marques de Lajara.

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas

Sigh r116–that’s a severely altered photo

Sailor.

Tsar Alexander III had quite the nut sack.

Sigh R121, I don't care he is hot.

That poor man at R115 has no visible genitals.

R114 is a photoshopped version of this:

McKinley looks like Emilio Estevez.

LOVE all of these including the extraordinary AI slop!!!!

Please keep 'em comin'!

R120 - Awww!

R67 The Naked Gunner dove into the ocean to save a someone, then went straight to work firing the gun. It was in the heat of battle. Wish we could see the front.

[quote] LOVE all of these including the extraordinary AI slop!!!!

WWI Aussie. The original image is real, though colorized.

Can someone please AI reanimate the hot naked gunner? Bonus love if you can get him to show what we all can imagine to be a girthy, hairy penis!

Sad last days^

WWII Navy and Merchant Marine. Original image is real.

1917 Beta Theta Pi Miami U. basketball players

I prefer seeing the two in the right snogging, but still hot

German playwright, Frank Wedekind (1883):

R136 handsome jocks.

I don’t see any strappes de Jacque there

Jacques

Authentic? Hmmmm

150 is much more modern , not historial

Soldiers.

Friends.

An even younger Gustav Mahler, just 25 years old

That’s Henry Wallace!

Or is it Dick Nixon?

Or Goody Knight?

Handsome.

Fackie

Cincinnati punk. Click for triptych.

Cap from old WWII series "Victory at Sea".

Vince Edwards.

Young Vincent Price.

Vintage gangbang.

r158 is simply gorgeous! Who is that???

Looks like Rock Hudson (I wish).

R165 found my old home movies!!!

[quote]R158 is simply gorgeous! Who is that???

Google indicates that he is an Italian solder of WWII.

R163. Off with his head!

What has AI been training on that it got his nips so perfect?

Stay away from my man!!

R173 they are scraping every gif from DL—25 years of chewy nips

Afraid R171 ruined R158 for me. There is no fucking way that was filmed anywhere near WWII. The guy is super hot, but he's not a WWII Italian soldier.

No shit Sherlock

The soldier at R158, R172 is wearing a Decima Flottiglia MAS badge. La Decima was active from 1941 to 1943, fighting Allied forces in the Mediterranean.

The soldier is fake

So if I wear Civil War army tunic does that mean I was there, R178?

R167/168 what's the story behind those pics?

They are black and white versions of far more recent photos found all over gay tumblr and elsewhere.

R167 R168 gorgeous!

Can someone color the pics? Or AI them kissing please?

R176 That video is AI: It can take a picture, simulate undressing, and create a realistic appearance of what the soldier might have looked like beneath his uniform.

Which app Duchie R184? I want to see a rendering of R116's nips (yes I know he's already altered!)

Adobe Express, R185

R116 appears 15 years old.

R176, are you a little ... slow?

R186 can you help expose R116's nips?

[quote] What has AI been training on that it got his nips so perfect?

Is there a preference for abnormal nips?

Aussie photographer Max Dupain.

One of his photos.

R189 no, sorry. I know the tools, but I don't use them myself.

re r163, Vince Edwards was indeed prime sirloin beef (even with that shaved chest) but there was a day in DL history when a photo of young Jack Carson (next to him) would set many hearts aflutter here.

Any AI slop of r119 stripping out of his clothes? Please?!

same thread and many of the same pics.

And your point is, R196?

I guess I am fascinated by the constant recycling on DL, R197. The pictures are always fun, and I like the addition of the "slop AI". A new, delightful twist.

Slop AI may seem hot, but it’s not hawt hot. Organic hot is always hawt hot.

Australian painter Rupert Bunny

Rupert Bunny and "friends" on the beach

I think the slop AI is just a fun novelty.

Harvard professor A. Piatt Andrew, enjoying himself with his students

New Zealand writer D'arcy Cresswell, who was involved in a gay scandal

r114 and r116 looks like AI- suspiciously blurred in the face

You just figured this out? ^^read up

Someone get R116 in the nude!

R205 The doctored photo at R116 has been appearing on the Internets for at least 10 years now and appears less AI and more like some old photoshopping where the original tintype was manipulated to put someone else's head on the body, then some additional coloring put in.

The original tintype of the real Civil War soldier is included with the man's entry at Find a Grave. You have to click on the LINK to see the photo in question.

Meet Corporal Lodwick Daniel “Ludwig” Underwood of Vermont. He survived the Civil War, but lost a leg. His story about how his life was saved and what the government gave him is included. He lived until 1923.

"People like R208 ruin everything! Mr. Know it Alls! The photos in this thread are REAL. Including the little movies. They were gorgeous men and many of them were GAY as you can see. And you can't handle it, because you are ugly and alone. They made Gone With The Wind, a COLOR MOVIE, during the Civil War, and they made these beautiful little movies, too! You think everything real and lovely is fake. Who hurt you!"

Unidentified.

R210 beautiful

I dated a grad student when I was in college that looks so much like r210's photo that it's frightening.

Tuyo had one very OLD Daddy! Yikes

Albert Wolffungen. Born in Germany in 1865.

Someone on Reddit is totally in lust with this guy and did some deep diving research on him. If interested in reading that, the LINK is in the next post.

Basically, he was into opera. Moved around and founded several opera societies. He also had more than one name change. Had patrons connected to opera. Never married. Made it to the U.S. at some point and died in Los Angeles in 1932.

^

looks possible ginger

possibly ginger, red head.

English writer D.H. Lawrence who wrote Lady Chatterly’s Lover

That Lawrence guy got really ugly later in life.

Classic Filipino actor Leopoldo Salcedo, known as "The Great Profile."