Photographs from the 1800s that show people in someway exhibiting fun or silliness.
Suffragist, feminist and photographer Marie Høeg (15/04/1866 to 22/02/ 1949) has some fun on her studio, circa 1880s. Glass negative
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Nicholas II having fun with members of the royal family (1899)
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Friends smile as one tries to feed the one in glasses a candy, 1890s. Glass negative
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Glass negative of a girl smiling for the camera, 1890s
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Boy playing hockey with his dog at the frozen pond of his home, Catonsville, Maryland, 1890. Glass negative.
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Glass negative of a little girl (Gudrun Elisabeth Müller, 1 of April 1890) smiling for the camera. 1894.
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Lady enjoys her "penny strip" photo sesion, circa 1890s.
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Glass negative shot of smiling children, 1890s.
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Glass negative of children fooling around for their photo, circa 1890s.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand pretending to be a mummy (1896)
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Playing chess, 1850s.
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2 ladies wave off smiling as they ride off in their pennyfarthing, circa 1880-90
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2 ladies trying to hold a laugh but not quite making it, circa 1890s.
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Allie Danish smiles as she poses for her photo, 1890s. Glass negative
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Princess Alix of Hesse (Future Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna) on her solo photos of May, 1875. Gives a great smile for her photos a cute grumpy face at the end.
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Glass negative of Mrs. T.F. Shuey smiling while daughter Katherine hugs her for their portrait, 1890s. Glass negative
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Group of young ladies give a playful look at the camera while drinking...beer?wine? (not sure). circa 1890s.
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Miss Jessie White posing with a friend, Glass negative 1890.
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Glass negative of a bedouin lady giving a subtle smile, 1898.
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Group of ladies playing around in the living room, probably some dorm room (or living room), late 1890s.
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Chubby baby giving a smile while posing over some fur, 1890s. glass negative
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The Memphis and🚂 Charleston railroad train crossing over the Tennessee River in 1890. It was the first rail Link between the Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean. It was very important to the Confederacy during the civil war.
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Daguerreotype of a smiling woman, circa 1850-60s
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Group of friends have a race together, across a ditch and over a hill. Last photo of them together, circa 1897-98
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Gentleman stares at a Lady that, has decided to swing from a rope, Coney Island, New York, 1890. Glass negative.
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Miss Trott and Miss Moore smile as they pose qieh their instruments, Junction city, Kansas 1898. glass negative
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2 friends posing against a pine tree by the river, circa 1890s.
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Daguerreotype of a father and his smiling chubby baby girl. Sucha a bright smile and i think the father has a subtle smirk going on, circa 1855
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Glass negative of a smiling girl, A. McCormick, circa 1890s.
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3 ladies enjoy a drink together while they laugh, circa 1890. Love that energy in that raised fist.
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2 young ladies having fun on the beach, circa 1890s. Glass negative
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2 ladies enjoy some foot on a thick branch of a tree, circa late 1890s. Not sure how they got upt there
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2 ladies share some fun and laughs while on a small row boat, Maine 1890s. glass negative
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Tintype of friends posing together, circa 1880-90s
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Ladies helping a friend do a pose for a shot, 1895.
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Glass negative of a litle laughing baby trying to reach a flower, circa 1890s.
Several Fort Worth, TX Citizens gather together to build an impressive (and rather sinister) snowman at 1004 Lamar St. January 1889.
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Four Girls jumping off a wall in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York, May 22 1886. Wallace G Levinson.
Group of ladies ating some cookies and cake with one, forgoiubn any etiquete and just stuffing it on her mouth, Maine, 1898.
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Girld rides her trike, and 2 girls push their ring, New York, 24 of May 1886, Glass negative
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Vincas Juska, A Lithuanian book smuggler that transport language books into Lithuania proper circa late 1800s, Smugglers like Juška transported books a across the border to preserve the Lithuanian language and culture, March 16th is celebrated in Lithuania as the Day of the Book Smugglers.
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2 ladies posing in the beach of new jersey, glass negative, circa 1890s
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A tree house of the Koiari people, east of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1886.
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Nancy Watts and Ida Mae Rupe Cuckler with cat, Athens State Hospital (OH, 1920s)
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Group of girl jumping of a wall while a couple of ladies watch, New york, 22 of May 1888
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2 ladies light their cigarettes, circa 1890s
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Nomadic storyteller carrying his belongings circa (1897) Norwegian storyteller Eiliv Braatene spent much of his life as a wandering vagabond, carrying all his possessions in a tin can and a small bundle.
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Native American looking at the newly built transcontinental railroad. 1868.
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