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Despite our collective and immense research, we have yet to find a single photo of a giraffe before the invention of the battery. This may suggest the mechanical workings of some of the early giraffe models depended on batteries.

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Historical Sightings says they have not found a photograph from before the battery. People reply with paintings, which are a different kind of thing.

I want to separate the claim that a picture is old from the claim that it shows an independent encounter. A date printed under a later reproduction does not establish either on its own.

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nailbrush
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Before photography would give you no photographs of anything. The question has to include which battery and which photographic process.

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rustred
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The section says battery, not photography. That difference is exactly why the cutoff interests me.

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halfstep
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A painting is still not the requested photograph. I am not saying a date under a painting is worthless; I am saying it answers something else.

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windowseat
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I would take an old street picture more seriously than another animal portrait commissioned to show an animal.

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moth
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There are photographs after batteries. That is the part I keep coming back to.

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marl
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An old photograph can also have been commissioned. You need the history of the picture, not just a year in the filename.

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