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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Is it possible the three buddies placed the camera on the floor and used a self timer? If there had been a fourth person I'd imagine they would have posed on the bed.
but there's an obvious PROBLEM with this scenario: Were cameras with self-timers commercially sold in the 1940s? 
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The first patented self-timer involved
lighting a fuse! But the second patent issued was for what we would more readily recognize as a self-timer was granted to the Faries
Autopoze on January 14, 1902:
Self-timers were first marketed
to the general public during the WWI era; the image below, touting this “newest” device, is from either 1916 or 1917 (the exact printing date of this brochure is up for debate):
Self-timers became ubiquitous with the general public in the early 1930s - early enough that the lads in the above photo certainly could have used one.
This is the oldest self-timer that I own - a Polaroid #192 from 1963:
It still functions perfectly!