It may sound silly, but I wanted to present it to my son later. We were on the subject this morning, and he'll get a real kick if his father actually did some research on it. Only I don't have time to.
Well, since you say fella, I'll just slink away with this perfect example...
Well, she looks masculine enough anyway with her chin scrap, so we'll include her!
It's the closest I could get with any kind of in-depth research I'm afraid. Not a lot of people would let their likeness go down in history with their finger deep in the mines, digging for gold, so the closest example I can find from the 19th century (where most of my photographs date from) is this rather dashing woman taking snuff in 1855!
