Mario Guaita-Ausonia and The Trio Ausonia

(These two postcards are circa 1908.)

Mario Guaita (stage name Ausonia) was a model (with two other strongmen, billed as the "Trio Ausonia") and silent movie actor in several films between 1912 and 1926 -- most notably the 1913 version of "Spartacus."

Some extra reading (if you're multi-lingual or can stand the gobbledygook that results from most on-line translators --

An article on the film history of Spartacus in the pdf file of "Antike im Kino" -- 'Spartacus – Männermuskeln, Heldenbilder oder: die Befreiung der Moral' starting on page 178 (but check out the other cool stuff as well!) (in German)

Silent Passion blog - Spartacus 1913 (in Spanish)

"Corner of Carl's Room" -- early 1900s

A photo that was recently sold by the eBay dealer "Gargantua" along with two enlargements -- a true bachelor pad (note the motto "Don't Marry")!

1909 basketball team

The following text came with this image when it appeared on eBay in 2003 --

Seven handsome members of the Warren County Athletic Club basketball team of 1908-09 pose with their coach in this wonderful vintage male athlete card-mounted photograph. The athletes' names are hand-inscribed on the reverse:

Warren County
1908 1909 Basketball Team
Ray Carling
Dr. Larrue
Johnson Morgon
Charles Brown
William Gordon
Frank Robertson
Wilbur Opdyke
Leon Cowoll

Squanto

I believe this is George Francis "Squanto" Wilson, who played five games of baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1911, and one game as a member of the Boston Red Sox in 1914.  Doesn't he look a lot like the actor Brendan Fraser?

Early 1900s nude