“Eat Your Heart Out Ellen!”: Colin Powell And A Brief History Of The V

Move over, Ellen DeGeneres, there’s a new selfie sheriff in town.

This morning, 76-year-old retired secretary of state General Colin Powell posted a vintage selfie on his Facebook page.

Throwback Thursday – I was doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks. Eat your heart out Ellen!

Powell, of course, was not the first person to capture their own image pre-iPhone. And so to celebrate Powell’s image, we’ve compiled some of the best vintage selfies in history.

1839: Chemist and metallurgist Robert Cornelius captures the world’s first selfie

Photo by Robert Cornelius via Library of Congress

1898: Belgian painter, Henri Evenepoel

1910: A man experiments with his camera

1920: Photographers on the roof of the Marceau Studio, New York

Photo by The Byron Company via The Museum of the City of New York

The result:

This San Francisco arts organization is not afraid to challenge its tech-world neighbors

This gorgeous book teaches kids about the plight of endangered animals

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Why won’t that one-eyed seagull leave Robert Pattinson alone?

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Prices start at $13 at Banksy’s store, if you can answer a simple question

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This haunting short will change the way you look at guns

How to thrive as a working couple when you’re undergoing a major transition

How to design a 360-degree review process that actually works

Women bosses face more discrimination (from both men and women)