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William Pridmore; champion walker, Victoria BC, ca. 1880
(Pedestrianism, or competitive walking, was quite a fad in the 19th century with championship competitions in England, the United States, Australia and Canada where contestants would walk hundreds of miles.)
University of Southern California Co-Eds wearing their “Senior Plugs” (top hats, usually as beaten up and weathered as possible, which were traditional senior class garb, while freshmen wore beanies and sophomores wore pork pies), 1902
