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11 Oct 2024 01:23:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Old photographs  
From: nemesis
Date: 8 Mar 2008 21:36:35
Message: <47d34d33@news.povray.org>
St. wrote:
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
> news:47d2c84a@news.povray.org...
>>  Somehow I find some old photographs to be really fascinating. The older
>> the photograph, the more fascinating. For example, consider this 
>> photograph
>> taken in 1897:
>>
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/HatfieldClan.jpg
>     You're not kidding. I love these photo's too, but did you notice the boy 
> wearing a dress, (left, top row)? And is that, (shall we say), a 'short' 
> blond haired lady to the right? It makes you think about what the mindset of 
> these people was like back then. Hard times indeed.

The most distracting thing in these old photos is that you never see 
anyone smiling.  Hard time indeed.  Either that or "cheeeese!" was still 
to be invented. :)

and to think Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin were just a few years away...


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