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    Ok guys, picture time, now get your --s to work,

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    'Glazier Stove Company machine room workers. 1901. Chelsea, MI.'

    That one guy is a 'new hire'. Trying to push diversity in the workplace.

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    The one on the right, he's a dandy! Looks like at least a few nice South Bend lathes in there! From right down the road.
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    Brazos Valley Cotton Mills workers. West, Texas. November, 1913.

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    Cotton pickin' kids!
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    Cotton pickin' kids!
    Yep, but I bet they grew up to be hard workers LOL. not like the phone farkers of today
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    The lack of smiles indicates a genuine natural look. This is before people started to fake smiles for cameras.

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    Yes, expressions in early photographs (until around 1920 or 1930) were treated like painted portraits, and it was considered inappropriate for the subjects to smile.

    This is in part why the Joseph Ducreux meme became so popular. Ducreux was an 18th century French portraitist known for painting portraits of people with unconventional expressions. His self-portrait ended up as a meme template, in which common expressions or lyrics are presented in archaic phrasing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
    Yep, but I bet they grew up to be hard workers LOL. not like the phone farkers of today
    "like pink-fingered phone farkers of today."

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