Tumblr Thread: Dude Actually Having Fun In an Old Picture

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Eric Lund
Jun 12, 2020 12:00 PM EDT

As ridiculously out of place as it seems, this picture is actually confirmed by the American Museum of Natural History as being totally legit. In a world where every single photo of old-timey people is dour as hell, it makes sense to actually have fun with it. The saddest thing is that, with the photo being about 120 years old, we don't get to talk to this guy. For more interesting history stuff, here's a Tumblr Thread that makes history fun.

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    Stock photography - AMERICAN MUSEUM& NATURAL HISTORY Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904 comradeonion this is an extremely important picture 24-sa3t Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg
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    Text - He has a nice face fearwax No but the history behind this picture is really interesting The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn't that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture. It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like. But one time some Briti
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    Text - thisisarebeljyn I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing. avatar-dacia Hey, look; "Man Laughing Alone With Rice" is back on my dash. jumpingjacktrash always reblog Happy Rice Guy. once upon a time, he really enjoyed his lunch, and that's beautiful.
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