Did you know.......

If you know a bit about the history of photography, you might know that it got off to a rocky start. While today photographs can be taken in less than a second, when photography was first being developed as technology, it took hours to get a photograph. In order to capture anything on film, the early cameras of the 1820s had to take several hours. 

Any adult can sit still for a period of time, though typically these photographs were taken without smiles simply because it’s hard to give a convincing smile over a long period of time. For children, the mothers often had to hold them still. What this often meant was that mothers had to be hidden, disguised as chairs or just sitting under a sheet. (The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things)