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When I was young we would sometimes turn backwards.
KC
Were they posed? Or were they candid? If this was a candid shot, why so many turned around backwards?
[Hard to say almost a hundred years later, but I would imagine someone said something to the effect of "smile for the camera." In any case this would have been a big box camera on a tripod, so they'd have to know they were being photographed. - Dave]
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