Featured Antique Counter Sign for a Tailor Featuring "The Dude"

Found him on ancestry.com in the 1900 census. Born Germany 1849. Immigrated 1870. Married 1892 to Fredericke. No children. Could read, write and speak English. Janesville had only reached a population of 13,000 by that year (many German thanks to chain migration) but county seat.

Debora

 

I like the way it shows the required mens jewelry & added fashion of that era.

 

Hard to do an honest days work in that ensemble, I'd think.

Debora

 

unless yer a pimp !!

 

I don't think it was thought of as a bad thing at the time... true gentlemen didn't have to or need to work. Leading a life full of nothing but fashion and pleasure and leisure was admired in a certain class. Look at Beau Brummell in the early 19th century.

 

In the farming community of Janesville, Wisconsin at the turn of the century?

Debora

 

By the 1880s Janesville was more than a farming community, with several industries manufacturing agricultural implements, carriages, perfumes, and Parker Pens, among other developments.

https://www.janesvilleareastories.com/city-of-janesville-wisconsin-histor

 

Ah, there we go then. Prosperous with white collar jobs.

Debora

 

u never know who wants what.....

 

Nice description - except you say the business was in Milwaukee rather than Janesville.