This is what I picture when I imagine hi-jinks at the Smithsonian. That's "a seventeen and one half foot long beard found in a North Dakota attic," in case you were curious.
This one's worth slowing down to check out. It's posed, but strangely. The people at the time look interested but unwilling to participate. The children look strangely dejected, aside from the Artful Dodger down from behind the headmaster? teacher? father? Pictures like this drive me insane with lack of knowledge. And is there a guy near the top giving us the rump?