Flipping the Bird - in photographs since 1886!

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Retronauts has what could very well be the first recorded image of someone flipping the bird. 
Its from 1886, and its Charles Radbourn of the Boston Beaneaters.
I guess it beats the heck out of a Patel snap.  Then again, one wonders what the first occurence of that one was...

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