10 Images That Prove Paul McCartney Didn't Create The Selfie

5. 1914 - Russian Princess Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova

883160 Selfie Taken By Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova Before photography, a good amount of time and money was needed to have an artist paint your portrait - resulting in the majority of portraits being upperclass, white males. Once photography became widely accessible the female gender took to their cameras in what can only be assumed was an attempt to even the status quo. Before meeting her infamous end in the Russian Revolution, a young Princess Anastasia took this photograph - one of the earliest teenage selfies out there.

4. 1915 - Trooper George Simpson Millar

With many young men being sent to fight in the trenches of World War I, portraits took a whole new meaning to these soldiers who probably had no other photographs. Whether it was to give to a loved one or to save a memory of a happier time, portrait taking became very popular leading up to the war. While Trooper George Simpson Millar, who took this selfie of himself shaving in 1915, was able to return home in 1918, these selfies remain the only photographs of many soldiers who died in World War I.

3. 1917 - Gunner Thomas Charles Richmond Baker

Much like Millar, Thomas Charles Richmond Baker fought in World War I, enlisted as a fighter pilot in 1917. This selfie of the distinguished gunner is one of the last photographs of Baker before his death in 1918.
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