Found this on Shorpy.com (here: http://www.shorpy.com/…-Cornelius ) via my friend cmiper's Twitterstream (here: http://twitter.com/…/793508139 ). Very fascinating stuff--the above pic was taken in 1839 and was a self-portrait of a dude called Robert Cornelius. Apparently, either they didn't have combs or class 171 years ago.
What? I do my best to comb my hair before my semi-daily visit to DailyMugShot.com!!
ANYway, just thought this pic was fascinating. I mean, it was old when our grandparents were born! 171 years ago, there were still slaves and Martin Van Buren was president (he was the 8th!). According to Wikipedia.org (here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839 ) the phrase "OK" was new and the first law allowing women to own land in the US was put on the books in Mississippi.
And John McCain celebrated his sixth birthday!
To learn more about this photograph, head over to the Shorpy.com post here: http://www.shorpy.com/…-Cornelius
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Orignal From: First Photograph from 1839
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