At least on the internet, there is a belief that people aged faster in the past. And there are photographs that seem to confirm this, images from a time when photography was not an accessible, cheap and much less common resource. Young people who were barely 20 years old and their appearance resembled that of a modern human over 40 years old. Obviously, this is not an absolute rule, but it is curious to analyze the differences.
Perhaps, people of the past have that “aged” appearance before our eyes because of the fashion they wore and the hairstyles they made. Or perhaps because they took on responsibilities at a very young age: marriage, child-rearing, work, and the search for an independent life that did not depend on parental assistance or help.
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Thus, their bodies already reflected the “weight of life” at an early age. Take a look at this compilation of photographs that seem to prove that people aged faster in the old days.
“This woman was my mother in 1952, when she was just 16 years old. He had a lot of style.”
Believe it or not, at the time this photograph was taken, that young woman was only 16 years old.
“My father at age 17 in Canada, 1974.”
“Mom in 1992, when she was just 22 years old.”
Records indicate that this person was only 16 years old at the time the photo was taken.
Photograph taken in 1940, the year this young man turned 19 years old.
She was only 16 years old at the time this photograph was taken.
“My grandfather operating his first tractor in 1954, he was just 15 years old.”
“Mom and Dad in 1979, during a trip to Amsterdam. They were 20 and 18 years old respectively.”
“My grandfather at 18 years old. He was already cooler here than I’ll ever be.”
In this photograph, taken in 1954, the person was only 21 years old.
The couple pictured here were only 23 years old, the photograph was taken in 1947.
She was 16 years old and the photograph was taken in 1927.
“In 1949, my 14-year-old grandfather was riding his bicycle through the streets of Dayton, Ohio.”
This man, who looks like a modern thirty-something, was actually 19 years old at the time this photo was taken.
Can you believe I was only 16 years old?
“Mi abuelo, un soldado canadiense, el 1940. En ese entonces tenía 22 años de edad”.
“Mamá en el año de 1980 o 1981, con 23 o 24 años encima”.
“This is my very elegant grandfather in 1942. I was just 18 years old at the time.”
This photograph was taken in 1945, the year the young woman turned 18 years old.
At the time this photograph was taken, Elizabeth Taylor would have been about 17 years old.
Baseball player Sparky Anderson (right) at 42 years old.
The famous Ritchie Valens at the age of 17, shortly before he died in the plane crash.
When Dwayne Johnson graduated from high school, he looked much older than he does today.
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