Selfies From Another Century

An unidentified man took 445 selfies over three decades and kept all the pictures. Over the decades he went into photo booths and took multiple pictures some happy,sad, or mad. Like the rest of us he face changed over the years making the pictures different every time. Some pictures show him with grays, wrinkles, even his cheeks were lower on his face. The pictures were taken around the time of the Great Depression says historian Donald Lokuta. 

I think he took the pictures to show his feeling about the Great Depression of how he felt before, during, and after it.

Why do you think he took all of those pictures? Do you think he kept all of them as a reminder of how it was during the Great Depression?

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  • Interesting story and well done. Be sure to put the link in the original story. I do see that you added it in the responses.

  • He pry took them as like a photo log on how hard the times got

  • I think he took them because he wanted people to see what they went through just in different emotions.

  • he wanted to make a flip book of himself aging this way when he is about to die he can literally watch his life go by. That is what I think and if I was this guy I would have done it just to watch the Depression go by in my life

    • I agree. It would be interesting to see how it affected me.

  • I think he was taking those pictures so we can look back into our history and actually get a picture of what was actually happening. He was taking "selfies" not even knowing the effect it has on this century.

    • I agree.

  • Wow!!! #letmetakeaselfie This is so neat! Who would've thought.. I always thought that Troy Bolton started the selfie in hsm 1 when he and gabriella are exchanging numbers and he takes a selfie on her phone. But clearly not!! He probably knew that in his future life he wanted to be like Troy Bolton.. cause lets be honest who doesn't.

    • That's interesting.

  • I think he took all those pics because he wanted to rember it and stuff

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