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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg
You rarely see someone smiling in the old photos.
Maybe they didn't think the "good old days" were so good. 
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You know, I have always wondered that. Do you think it was a social custom dating from the origin of photography when exposure times were long so you had to sit there like a stone image?
I've noticed that even in Dad's college yearbook from the 1930s, the students usually did not smile.