ca. 1875, [extremely tall Pinkerton detective with lead gloves]
via Deadly Intent: Crime and Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive, Stanley B. Burns and Sara Cleary-Burns
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ca. 1875, [extremely tall Pinkerton detective with lead gloves]
via Deadly Intent: Crime and Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive, Stanley B. Burns and Sara Cleary-Burns
I think I’ll start a new sport. It will be called wight spotting.
The Alan Pinkerton National Detective Agency was founded in Chicago in 1852, was internationally respected and...
Lead gloves! Nifty.
Pinkertons were freaky folk.
Perhaps it’s just me - but this says Victorian Super-hero to me.
gloves (ca. 1875)
"Until the handkerchief of history covers us with its Times New Roman black and white post script..."
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