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[ticktockman.livejournal.com]

A "drummer" was a traveling sales agent, working to drum up business for his employer's products.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was puzzling over that!

[sid]

I wonder what year this was? Pre-Civil War? Post? The stovepipe hats definitely put it somewhere in that time period.

The two men in the flat caps on the left are probably immigrants still wearing the style of their homeland, wherever that might be. I'm tempted to say Turkey, but I really have no idea.

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

Punk'd, 1880s edition.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Just good fun, well, except for the part where the gentleman died of lead poisoning from the paint. Oh well, pretty much everything killed you back then anyway.