In Honor of National Archives Month

We are blessed to live during a time of interesting male facile hair. But darlin', we can't touch the imaginative, hirsute males of the 19th c. As evidence, we offer Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century: A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip Hair.

The mustache blog is the brainchild of a photographic archivist who was looking for a way to celebrate National Archives Month (October). The result is creation of a daily mustache blog with the digital images from the collections of the University of Kentucky Archives:

Dear Gentle Reader, Many of the following pages have graphic and clear images of the masculine mustache in all its forms, both sublime and grotesque. My intent is not to shock or titillate, but merely to inform on the subject. The Nineteenth Century gave us many things, but above all it was a hotbed of facial hair experimentation and this is but a poor sampling of those many lost forms.