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Wasnt it in this era when getting your picture taken meaning you have to hold still for approx. 30 mins?
I feel bad for the dog!
LOL no, this seems to be a common misconception. As I talked about earlier in the topic, by the late 19th/early 20th century, exposure times were short enough to give birth to the "snapshot". I believe my photos which I dated around 1910 were taken with the Kodak Brownie, a handheld camera released in 1900. Exposure times were fairly short in good lighting - granted, there's still some blurring in some of my photos from this period when someone was moving too fast but being able to handhold the camera and not get camera shake most of the time means the exposure times were around at least 1/50th of a second. But again, that's in good lighting. Notice my pictures from that period are all taken outside in daylight. Probably inside the house was too dark to take a snapshot.
Furthermore, even by the time photography started becoming popular around the mid 19th century (about 1840-50), exposure times were already measured in or around a few minutes, not half an hour. It was not impossible to smile for the photo and in fact, you can find mid to late 19th century photos of people smiling. Just google "smiling Victorians". However, you try smiling for 5 minutes straight and you'll find it's not very comfortable. So most people opted not to but that doesn't mean it was impossible. Also keep in mind that people were still very used to paintings as portraits which didn't feature smiles so it's possible people just felt not smiling was traditional in portraits.
Wow, great pix! I want one too. Actually I may have one--my bf has a 13 yo son and they live on a farm and I found a little cart in the shed about that size with an old tractor seat so I talked his son into digging it out and refurbishing it. All it needs is a couple of new bike tires and he's in business and that reminds me that I'm supposed to take him some paint this weekend. They even have a goat.
It does and she had a Kewpie doll. That cut looks unintentional though--the way the rest of it is all chopped looking. But if her mother had to fix it and left a little bit at the top, she may have left it that way with Kewpie dolls in mind.
Would you guys believe that the kewpie doll is the mascot of the football team from the high school I graduated from? And they're a good team--I think it's like "a boy named Sue"--you have to be tough to carry that around.
Would you guys believe that the kewpie doll is the mascot of the football team from the high school I graduated from? And they're a good team--I think it's like "a boy named Sue"--you have to be tough to carry that around.
oh no. I was thinking no one even knew what a kewpie doll was anymore. Go team!!!!!!!!!!
It does and she had a Kewpie doll. That cut looks unintentional though--the way the rest of it is all chopped looking. But if her mother had to fix it and left a little bit at the top, she may have left it that way with Kewpie dolls in mind.
I think the mystery is solved - You learned a new family story, and others learned a little more trivia...
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