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Posted on Jan 24, 2015

Busting The Myth That People In Old Photographs Never Smiled

A collection of the earliest photographs of people smiling. The criteria for smiling in the collection are photographs where a person's teeth are showing as many times I have found that claims of a smile can be hard to verify without this rule. I believe this is the largest collection ever assembled of such photographs from the 1840's, 1850's, and 1860's.