Rare, for a number of reasons. Smiling wasn't an instinctive response to a photo being taken, the way it now. That only started becoming common in the 1930's.Then there's the dental care of the period-lots of missing or bad teeth and finally, the longer exposures made holding a natural looking smile somewhat problematic. Glad she didn't know these reasons, lol, she looks great.
Another reason you don't see many smiles was you had to hold your facial expression for a certain amount of time or the picture would be blurry, and smiles can be kind of hard to hold for that long.
If I may add, the reason it wasn't common was that people wanted to look all dignified and serious, but when non-European and non-"new Americans" were shot they didn't see things the same way and most wanted their happiness to be remembered.
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