Long before front-facing smartphone cameras and selfie sticks abounded—when cameras were a new and expensive commodity—human beings already had the urge to take self portraits. This collection of 22 early selfies is about as far away as you can get from modern-day selfies—no duck faces, bunny ears or photobombers.
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The first known selfie was created when American photography pioneer Robert Cornelius created a daguerreotype of himself way back at the dawn of photography in 1839. |
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Le Noyé (The Drowned Man), about October 18, 1840, Hippolyte Bayard. |
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Self-Portrait in the Garden, June 1845, Hippolyte Bayard. |
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M.V. Lobethal’s daguerreotype selfie, 1846. |
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Self-Portrait in the Garden, 1847, Hippolyte Bayard. |
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Self-Portrait in the Garden, about 1845–1849, Hippolyte Bayard. |
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British chemist Sir William Henry Perkin took this photo of himself at age 14, 1852. |
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This self-photograph of Oscar Rejlander taken in the 1850s. |
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Photo by Nadar, Self-Portrait in Costume, ca. 1862–64. |
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Seneca Ray Stoddard, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West — ca. 1870. Self-portrait. |
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Globe reflection in Glen’s Falls New York, ca. 1870s. |
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Double self-portrait by Rejlander, 1872. |
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Photo of Maharaja Birchandra, King of Tripura with his queen Maharani Manamohini taken by the king himself, 1880. |
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Self portrait of the engineer Washington Teasdale in front of Kirkstall Abbey in 1883. |
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A selfie by San Francisco photographer Isaiah W. Taber, 1885. |
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Here’s Russian photographer Alexei Kuznetsov’s self-portrait, using a mirror ball in a greenhouse, ca. 1885. |
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German photo studio team in an old group selfie, 1890. |
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Louis Boutan and the world’s first underwater ‘selfie,’ 1893. |
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Belgian painter Henri Evenepoel took a selfie, 1898. |
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Self-Portrait by Edward Steichen, Milwaukee, 1898. |
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Unknown woman with her Kodet camera, ca. 1880s. |
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Nasseredin Shah (King of Iran) took a selfie with his concubines, ca. 1800s. |
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