A fantastically decorated card mount for a studio picture of two serious fellows in 1870. Smiling fo
A fantastically decorated card mount for a studio picture of two serious fellows in 1870. Smiling for photographs did not become the norm until much later, leading to false assumptions that the Victorians were a rather glum and staid set of folk - I’m sure they looked much happier when they first saw the print of their picture together. -- source link
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