Photo Sharing Theme of the Week: Masculine

Question

This week's photo sharing theme: Masculine.

To participate, simply:

1. Choose a family photo that fits this week's theme.
2. Add it to this week's free-space gallery.
3. Reply with an answer below to let us know which photo you're sharing. If you want to include the photo but don't know how, click here.

The photo you share might be featured on the WikiTree home page and in our social media channels as next week's Family History Photo of the Week.

If you use a social network (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) you might want to share your photo there as well. This can be a great way to involve more family members. Many people love seeing old family photos. Be sure to add #52weeksofphotos and #wikitree to your post.

Also see: Profile Accuracy Theme of the Week: Music.

Answer 1

These are my grandfathers, Harold Richardson https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Richardson-20410 , and Edwin Weinheimer https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Weinheimer-60 , after an evening of fishing on Lake Erie, near Sunset Bay.  They were both avid fishermen.

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Mark, these are some great looking fish. Could they be crappie or maybe bass?

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Yellow perch.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perch

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Very masculine photo!  Harold and Ed bringing home the catch!  Hunter Gatherers both happy with their success as should be!  Fishing takes patience and sometimes a good story!  Thanks for posting Mark!  I like it!

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That's quite a haul, can't you just smell them cooking!

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I sure can, Gillian!  I have vivid memories of cleaning and filleting mountains of fish that my grandmother would bread and fry up in crisco, in the camp on the shore of Cattaraugus Creek.

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I like that your grandfathers were friends and enjoyed spending time together.

Answer 2

When I think of my family and masculinity, I think of my grandfather Scott Marvin Sr. He learned oil field work in Pennsylvania, and he came to Oklahoma in 1914. He served as a medic in WWI. He was a hard working man, and he worked every major oil field throughout Oklahoma and Kansas. He was a driller with a 50 inch chest. He is pictured here on the right. My grand uncle Frank Long is on the left, and my great grandfather A. P. Long is center.

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He must have been a really tough character, that sounds a very physically demanding job, definitely a man's world!

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Just wondering if maybe Grandpa Scott got his start on my Hibbard family's farm on Oil Creek in Titusville, PA, home of the Drake Oil Well?  Thanks for sharing your masculine side Alexis!!

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Another gorgeous photo sweet Alexis

They all look so wonderful thank you for sharing

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Thank you Gillian for your great comment. With the fires and the dangerous work, I always admired him.

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Oh my Scott, you just really taught me something that I had no idea about. I looked at the information on the Drake Oil Well, and in the 1900 census my grandfather was a child living in Cherrytree Township, Venango, Pennsylvania.    You are amazing Scott!     Our families were together in Pennsylvania!

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Thank you Susan for your sweet comment. I loved my grandfather; he popped corn for me and took me to get orange ice cream.

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I visited the old Hibbard Farm, where my family lived, in Titusville, PA.  The farm sold for $5k due to the oil on the property.  Small world!

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What a wonderful story, Alexis. It sounds like your grandfather was very capable and masculine, but also had time to spend with his granddaughter. Thank you for sharing this.

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Thank you Robin for your very nice comment. I remember him because I lived with my grandparents, so my mother could go back to school and later work.

Answer 3

My Grandfather, Harold "Hal" Knott Rammel (1892-1930), had many talents ... he was an newspaper editor, short story author, columnist, actor, professional magician, wrote plays, wrote poems and more.

One talent he experimented with was drawing of cartoons ... one of his cartoons from about 1925 is about a man who must have not been to "masculine" ... he didn't seem to know the difference between a football and a bomb?

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Hey Bill, nice to have that little drawing your grandfather drew!  When I was in Hi School my walls were filled with drawings of cartoon characters!  My mother told me that I couldn't make any money drawing so I became a salesman! Ha!  Should of stuck with the charcoal!  Thanks for sharing this great little cartoon!  I love it!

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Bill what a treasure to have a drawing your your grandfather draw

It really is amazing

Thank you for sharing

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The picture of the two guys with their beer is a great picture for "masculine." I'm glad it was chosen as the picture of the week. I smile every time I look at it.

Answer 4

This photo was taken in about 1953 and is of my dad messing about pretending to be superman and 'toss the caber' I don't think it went very far!

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Cute pic of your dad Gillian!  He should have been a actor because that stick looks pretty heavy.  Very masculine indeed!  Thanks for posting!

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Great photo, Gillian! Your dad must have been fun to be with. Thank you for sharing it.

Answer 5

Another photo from my step great-grandfather's shoe box, here we have the 3 Coy football team posing for their team photo. I think this photo was taken in Stalag 383 in about 1942 (I know for certain it was taken in a POW Camp between '40-'44) and my great-grandfather appears standing on the far left.

Of course, the women's sport has come a long way since the 40s but back then, in a prison camp full of soldiers, it was quite an honour to your masculinity to be picked for a football team (even if it was only the C Team !)

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David!  This is quite an exceptional family photo to have in your collection!  I have a photo of my uncle who was a bomber and captured by the Nazi's, but it was next to his flying fortress before he got shot down, but nothing like this from inside the stalag!  Lucky you!  and thanks for sharing!

Answer 6

When I saw the theme for the week, I remembered a photo of my father, Heinz Gustav August Lewerenz, as a young policeman on patrol in Cologne in 1956.
After his police training at the police school in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, he was transferred directly to the big city of Cologne as a patrolman.

The color of his uniform is dark-blue.

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Lovely photo of your dad in police uniform

What a great looking man

Thank you for sharing this wonderful photo Dieter

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This is a great shot of your dad Dieter!  I am sure that as a kid you were very proud of this..as it should be! Hats off to Polizist Heinz Gustav for keeping the peace!  Thanks for posting.

Answer 7

I find it difficult to actually define the term in question, & often find its usage to be completely devoid of meaning, so it took me a bit to think up what photo I'd share this week. I eventually decided on this one, of my great-grandfather, Lorry Jurgensen (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jurgensen-132) at his son's ball game, either late '50s or early '60s, Chicago. I never had the chance to know him myself, but he's been described to me as a very no-nonsense, work hard for what he had type. I wrote up a bio of sorts for him a couple days ago, which I need to do some more formatting of, but he served in the Navy in WWII, & worked most of his life as an engineer, first installing air conditioners in Pullman train cars & later installing elevators for the Otis Company, including in Chicago's Prudential building. He was a very loving person, from what I've been told, though he had little patience for the goofing off of children & others, such that some people felt he was mean.

My mother likes this photo because she thinks it encapsulates her view of him pretty well- supportive of family, strong willed, & despite being the son & grandson of immigrants, & still proud of his Norwegian heritage, he came off as one of the most red-white-and-blue people you could meet.

At Sarah's request, I'm giving the name of the dog here: he was some sort of poodle, I think, but he was named "Charley" & always called "Cha-Cha" after John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley. He belonged to my grandparents, & there's another photo with him in it attached to Lorry's wife, my great-grandmother Dorothy.

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Lorry looks like a very knowledgeable guy, reserved, compassionate and caring!  I'm liking his Pendleton shirt and the flags flying in the background, especially for America's national sport!  Very masculine for sure Thomas.  Thanks for sharing!

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What an eloquent tribute to your great-grandfather!

Answer 8

I want to share with you a picture of a football / soccer match between local chimney sweeper and baker. The match took place in Bad Segeberg and the chimney sweeper won by 4-1

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Very masculine Martin!  It takes a lot of effort to stay in that game!  Probably the sport of the world!  Thanks for posting.

Answer 9

My 2xgreat-grandfather Elbertus Lammertse ca. 1900, with some very masculine sideburns.

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Elbertus stop short of 'mutton chops' (ear to ear) or did he?  By the way out of all my world travels, Amsterdam remains up there with Florence for me!  I have been there three times and love it each time!  Elbertus looks like he may have been an investigator of sorts?  Thanks for sharing the photo!

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No, Elbertus wasn't an investigator. He was a farmer. He did not live in Amsterdam, but was probably there to visit his daughter, who lived there.

Answer 10

Here's a photo of a 3rd Great Grandfather, James Archibald Steele.  Yes, he is just a male ancestor, but he did march all the way to New Orleans from St. Louis with the Doniphan's Expedition to Mexico in 1846.  During the long march he experienced hardships and privations, and participated in many engagements.  Once they arrived in New Orleans he was not needed and he was mustered out.  The total journey was 3,600 miles.  New boots anyone?

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Thank you Scott for sharing your 3rd great grandfather James and his amazing story. He certainly must have been an remarkable man to have survived such a journey.

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Thank you for sharing the story of your 3rd great grandfather! It had to be a tough way and it´s unimaginable nowadays. Great old photo, Scott!

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What a story!, It's unimaginable to think of doing that and the conditions they had to face. They knew how to make their boots last in those days!

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Talk to Dieter about the boots.

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Scott,  James' march was interesting.....I studied Donaphin's Expedition to understand the route.....I understand it rivalled, for length, Alexander the Great's journey.

Answer 11

 My dashing grandfather Richard and uncle William Campbell

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Quite dapper your grandfather William.  Good looking guy with a great Homburg or Bowler? Derby? Hat!  Wish the style would return..I'm tired of baseball caps...especially backwards!  Thanks for posting!

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I agree -- quite dashing... and handsome too. Thank you for sharing this photo.

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Very dashing, beautifully turned out and look at the polish on those shoes too!

Answer 12

Four Generations of Robert Boaks.......seated, Robert Boak Senior......left, Sir Robert James Boak......right, Robert Burns Boak......youngest, Robert (Bert) Alexander Boak......circa 1874, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada.  Robert Sr. was born in 1795 in South Shields, Durham, England and Sir Robert's next younger brother, Edward, was my mother's great grandfather.                                                    

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Such a great family photo to have in your family album John!  Here's to the Boak men in your family!  All masculine that is for sure!  Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Thank you for sharing this wonderful photo. It's not often to see a photo with four generations, but four generations of Roberts is certainly rare.

Answer 13

You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathy Lee. I don't care! Just as long as you call me.--RuPaul

I thought this question would be easy. I have a lot of pictures of men. Which one to choose? There's one of my father with a big pumpkin. . . Better yet, one of my father with a big fish. Catching big fish is more masculine than growing pumpkins. . . Better yet, one of my father standing by his car with a deer he shot. Shooting a deer is better than catching a fish, and bringing  it home tied to a car beats dragging a fish home on a sled. . . .Better even yet! My cousin with a record-breaking bear in the back of his pickup. Record-breaking bear beats small deer. Pickup beats car.

Or does it? What is masculinity? Albert Cashier fought in the Civil War and lived another 40 years before anyone found out he was not a man. The Wikipedia article carefully avoids gender-specific pronouns, and refers to this person as "Cashier". Then I thought about RuPaul, the famous drag queen. The Wikipedia article about him uses masculine pronouns. So RuPaul is more masculine than Albert Cashier?

Here is a picture of my father making a quilt.

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Thanks for the commentary on what is masculine - some great points. I also love this picture of your father making a quilt. Thanks for sharing.

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You're welcome. Thank you for noticing and commenting.

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Joyce,  In '77 we went, as 3 couples, to the 'Blue Room' nightclub in the Plaza Hotel in Kamloops B.C. and as the band struck up a 'Creedance Clearwater' song, and  our wives had been taken, Ron and I looked at each other, shrugged,  got up and danced together, as it so happened, near 2 young ladies, who, after the song ended, clapped us a big round of applause.......Confidence may be the answer.

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Way to go, John! Thanks for the comment.

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Say What?..Frank Furter aka Frankie likes making new clothes...or quilts..too..and he's pretty masculine!  Love those old quilts Joyce and I have done a little needle work myself!  Thanks for such an interesting post!

Answer 14

G Grandfather John Hogan looked masculine and dashing in his Boston Fire Department dress uniform.  This photo was taken just a few years before he married my G Grandmother: John Hogan in Uniform

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Dorothy,  In John Hogan's biography, it caught my attention that he told 'slightly' exaggerated stories, of his adventures at sea, as he doted on his grand children, in his retirement. 

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Here's your photo Dorothy!  What a great shot of your great grandfather!  I love it!  Thanks for sharing!

Answer 15

Group of men who worked at the Atwood Silk Mills owned and managed by Lewis Clark Atwood and his brother Dayton. Depending on the year when the picture was taken, it might have been while their father Orlo was still alive. From the left: Dayton Atwood, Lewis Atwood. If anyone can read the other names, I'd love the help.

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Maybe Adam for the 3rd name and Hendry for the 6th?

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Here's a newspaper clipping about Atwood Silk Company.  Maybe they are stockholders?  There's Stanley Atwood and Frank Larned who were the first directors..Frank was their attorney.  Business launched August 1, 1914.  Thanks for sharing this very masculine shot S.!

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Thank you for the clipping. Never seen that before! Trying to figure out who the Stanley Atwood was. Lewis had a son Stanley, born in 1892. That seems young to be a director in 1914, but not impossible. I thought I had seen Stanley and my grandfather, G F Davenport listed as foremen in another news release in the same time period.

And the name of the company being M J Atwood is very interesting. I had never seen that name in print before, only the Atwood Silk Company. May Josephine Atwood was a sister of Dayton and Lewis who died at age 14.It was also the name of Lewis' daughter (who was my grandmother)!

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Thanks - Adam or maybe Adams looks right. Hendry is certainly a possibility.

Answer 16

My Great Grandfather, Samuel Hills, taken about 1925 in London England.

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Thank you for sharing this photo of your gr-grandfather, Christine. He looks like a gentle man. I especially like his eyes which make him look like a man with depth of feeling.

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Great photo Christine!  Long white beard complete with 'newsboy' cap!  Very masculine indeed!  Thanks for posting this special photo of your grandfather!

Answer 17

Again this week I'm featuring my husband's paternal grandfather, William Arthur Shaules. This photo was taken in 1905 in Montana when he was between his first and second marriages.

It seems that he was quite a masculine man. He had been a cowboy in the northwestern United States and an undersheriff in Alaska. He served in two wars, the Spanish-American War and World War I. He was a miner, an assayer, and built and ran two different hotels in Montana. He spent his later years as a land developer in both Montana and then in San Diego, California.

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Thank you Robin for sharing the great photo and story of William Shaules. He certainly had to have been a rugged and masculine man to have had the career he had. What an amazing life he had.

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Thank you, Alexis. I'm looking forward to improving his profile.

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Robin what a magnificent photo of William Arthur Shaules

He look amazing

Thank you for sharing this wonderful photo

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Thank you, Susan!

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William certainly had some great stories to tell, I am sure, as one of my mother-in-law's husbands was just like William, as he too was an owner of a hotel in a Montana mining town in it's early days.  Nice bio Robin, I hope you ended up with some of that $15 million dollars of gold that came out of Kendall!!!  Thanks for sharing the story!

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Hahaha! No Scott, not even $15! I wonder if your mother-in-law's husband knew William. Small world! We'll have to compare notes sometime.

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Robin,  An accomplished man, William, and I enjoyed reading about his father and ,especially, his son Andy.

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Thank you, John. They have been (and continue to be) an interesting family to research.

Answer 18

The 4 brothers were my great grandma Ellen Booi's brothers, the sons of 1st generation Dutch immigrants. Daniel, Charley, Walt and Ike. Yeah, they got their suits on here, but these boys lived in their work clothes. They were hard working farmers and ranchers in Illinois, Missouri, Montana, and Ontario. Just look at their faces. If I had a real tough project to do, I'd be happy to see these men coming over to help.

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Here's your photo John!  Definitely bros!  Thanks for sharing!

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Scott, I sure do appreciate you putting my pic up here. I didn't know if I was going to get it done. I'm happy to see it here.

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They really do look beautifully dressed for the photograph but you can see the toughness underneath. A very handsome crew!

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I love the clarity your picture. I enjoy seeing the difference in the fashion of the day and the beards.(although these beards seem to be making a come-back). Thanks for sharing.

Answer 19

This is Isaac and Joseph Shockey. They have some masculine mustaches for sure. Isaac is my 2x great grandfather, and to me he was very masculine. He worked hard on the farm everyday sun up to sun down to support and feed his family. He was still farming his land at 72 yrs old. He fathered 13 kids with his wife Sarah. Isaac was born in 1858 and died in 1931 at 72 yrs old. His profile is Shockey- 8.

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Thank you Stacie for sharing the wonderful photo, and yes they both are certainly masculine men.

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Gorgeous photo Stacie of Isaac and Joseph Shockey

Thank you for sharing this wonderful photo

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Isaac Nelson Shockey  Thanks for sharing this photo Stacie!  I admire the men of the past who work from sunup to sundown on their farms to support their families back in the day.  The women as well, we couldn't do without their foresight and their ability to keep it all together!  Nice photo!

Answer 20

Robert Bird Patton

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Patton-5154

joined the merchant marine in time to participate in World War I. He crossed the Atlantic on many voyages, during which his ship was the target of enemy fire. Women do everything nowadays, but in those days, seafaring was a man's job, especially during wartime when commercial ships come under the command of the Navy.

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As far as I can tell Marion, Robert Bird Patton had the rank of Commodore...One Silver Star in the Merchant Marines!  Great photo!  Thanks for sharing!

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Hello Scott, thank you for the feedback. Whereas I am very familiar with military ranks in the U.S. Navy, I always wondered about rank designations in the Merchant Marines. Robert Bird Patton (Cousin Bert) seems to have been quite young to have achieved the rank of Commodore, but wartime promotions sometimes are accelerated. I will check this out and update his profile accordingly.

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Yes, Marion...very young indeed and handsome!  Great job on his bio!  I will be interested in the merchant marine activity in World War I and the rank of Commodore.  Are you sure it was WWI?  I read that the rank of Commodore was retired in 1899 and not brought back until WWII.  However, that silver star tells the story if in fact he was in WWI.  Very interesting Marion!

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Hello Scott, Thank you for the compliment. I took the liberty of searching for additional source material for Bert's profile and I found several new ones that have been made available within the last year. Bert was born in 1888 and he is on record as having participated in the World War I.

Evidently, more research is needed to determine the meaning of the star on Bert's shoulder board. I have my doubts that an officer so young could have risen that fast within the ranks. The information on Merchant Marine ranks is listed in the source section, and the source indicates that a star means "Commodore." However, as you pointed out, the time period is an important factor. Also, it is possible that the Navy and the U.S. Merchant Marine discontinued the rank of "Commodore" at different times. I'll need to check on that one.

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So Marion, I am wondering if this is an academy photo?  here's a pic with the same dress hat.  Did the cadets have ranks?  Perhaps Bert was a 'Commodore' rank as a cadet?  Here's another photo with just the 'fouled anchor' emblem with no wreath.  I am really starting to think that this photo is a cadet graduation photo?  I think that there are a few folks on WikiTree that know the answer.  You should post his photo with a g2g question on military, esp merchant marine, ranks in the academy ranks and see if anyone can tell us about this star?  

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Hello Scott, thank you for continuing to help solve the mystery. You bring up a very good point. I know for sure that cadets have ranks in the U.S. Naval Academy because my cousin was stationed there when he was a Commander. I assume that the ranks in the Merchant Marine training follow a similar pattern. Your idea of posting the photo on G2G is a very good one. First, I'll attempt another internet search. I hope you are right because then the question will be answered.

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Here's a WikiTree space page on the United States Naval Academy that shows their cadets with the same dress hat.  I know for sure there is an expert on this here on WikiTree because he once told me that one of my military profiles could not have a certain medal because of the date.  I will hunt him down and send you his name.  I enjoy the hunt even tho I should be working on my BioBuilders April profiles! Ha!  I'm retired and so busy!

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Hello Scott, Thank you very much for taking the time to help me solve this riddle. Like you, I am retired but I am very busy, even more so than when I was "working." I also enjoy a mystery and the hunt for an answer.

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After careful study of this picture, comparing it to some others in the same family photo album, I have determined that the young man in the photo was not Bert Patton, but his nephew, Robert Young, Sr., who was a Naval Cadet at the time of his marriage in July 1946.

s://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Young-37166

Much of the photo album is a guessing game as few photos have annotations.