John F. Kennedy that’s for real lol,bet he had no clue when he went to get his shoes polished that day that he would forever be ingraven into history forevermore as an undisputed world record holder
Oooh, he took a photo of a picture! I was so confused as to why the video is calling a sketch a photograph. And I was also wondering why ppl weren't pointing this out. I get it now. Thank you!
@@domainofthesun4400, 1826 was the most renowned "photo" of rooftops in a village in France, you would not see any people because of the time of exposure demanded no physical movement.
Not photography related, but the grandchildren of 10th President John Tyler are still alive (or maybe just recently passed on the last year or so). That’s only 3 presidents after Andrew Jackson (seen in this video) and 35 presidents ago. Tyler was born in 1790 and died in 1862.
@@britannia3421 she was born in 1746 so someone born in 1699 would have been 47 yrs old at the time of her birth, even 67 years old when she was 20, not totally unrealistic.
Security cams have bad resolution because they need to waste minimal energy + be extremely small for more effective / stealthy security. Alongside this if they did have better resolution they’d run out of battery every week or so in comparison to the 6 months of battery life currently
Zeek zero that meme is going to die quite quickly if it’s used in situations like this, where there is no confirmation on whether the person you’re replying to is, in fact, a ‘boomer.’ I’m Gen Z. :)
Have you checked out on TH-cam the 1950's gameshow appearance of a man who witnessed the 1865 assassination of Lincoln? He was in his 90's when he appeared on the gameshow. And he almost didn't make it because he'd fallen the night before. Had a black eye.
Those old photographs are amazing. In a way, they are a form of time travel. You wonder what the air smelled like, what color were their clothes, what were they thinking, what were they going to do that day, etc. Very interesting.
smell, colors etc were very similar.... however, what gives eras distinction re photo, is the window into their faces. If you look at them closely, almost like an artist, you can measure the pressures & influencers of day to day life... you can literally see how the factors of life & stress shaped peoples faces. survival was more a day to day concern then, you can see it in their faces.
@@brianmedina5692 Just walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans in July .. you can still smell the 300+ years of piss and vomit. Baked into the streets, and walls. I love New Orleans, so much .. but I've never walked around a touristy area in the U.S., that smells like the Quarter.
Its amazing to think of time and how each generation touches another. When I was 4 in 1972, I had a neighbor man who was born in 1868. He was in good shape , walked everywhere, and wore overalls, a straw hat, and chewed tobacco and taught me how to call turkeys.
@@TheTrueSpottedStripe Not really. 100 years is a very long time to be alive. The amount of changes you’d see, the amount of people met, all the experiences
01:02 Trying to imagine the absolute stillness and quiet of the scene in this picture... No airplanes, no automobiles, no electric buzz of power lines, no radio or TV blaring .... just the wind, and the birds singing, maybe some horses clipclopping below, and some people down below in the street, quietly chatting ,..... you can actually hear yourself think ....... How utterly peaceful this moment in this photograph seems....
@@Miki_big_red_machine Wrong. The first photographs were taken in 1826. Matthew Brady took scores of photos during the Civil War in the 1860s. The first motion picture was made in 1895.
Yep, Thomas Carlyle wrote a history of the French Revolution around that time. Very lively, even melodramatic in some scenes, not necessarily true in details -- BUT he was able to talk to lots of people who still remembered those events or had even taken an active part in them! (It was only as far away as the late 1970s are now)
@@Miki_big_red_machineBy the 1800's photography was popular. War correspondents often took photos of the battlefields in the Civil War, and Wild West outlaws like Billy the Kid had their photos taken too.
@@valkyrja-- Medieval people aren't usually in modern graveyards. My nation exists since 1581 and it's hard to find gravestones with birthdates before 1850
Actually depending on the country, there are laws that may put a time limit on graves. It's pretty normal that there aren't a lot of old graves. I'll check in Parisian graveyards after my exams to compare.
impressive, i think the oldest photo our family has is a photo of our double great grandmother and her friend from like the 1920's. on the topic of photos, i we have 2 treasured photos from the fist spacewalk with signings from Edd White. My grandfather was an engineer for edd white when he was in the Air Force at the time, and when he sent a letter to White, he responded with them.
I found a modern photo of 4:52 online nearly IDENTICAL to the picture here and then put the two in a photo editing app (photoshop mix on my phone) and put each other on top of each other and then changed the opacity of the old photo, making it a slider to see the difference between then and now. The two pictures were taken in the same exact spot and height and angle. At this point I’m wondering if the photographer did it on purpose, and if they did, I salute them. I love doing this type of “before and after” comparison to other historic places I visit and to old family photos where I go to the same exact place, put the camera in the same exact spot, maybe even in the same space molecularly that the old camera took up was taken in the same angle and all to capture a near replica of the old picture in the modern day and then compare the two. I love seeing what has changed and what hasn’t between two photos and it sometimes feels impossible that the only thing separating the two subjects of the two photos are time. It feels like they aren’t the same thing but at the same time it does. Whenever I go to visit an old building from centuries past or see an object that old, I really hope that it hadn’t had any renovations. I know that they make the thing in question lasts longer but at that point, is it even still the same object/building if you’re changing everything about it? It’s like the ship of Theseus. You have a ship, and each year you replace a wooden board until at some point every single wooden board on the ship has been replaced with a new identical board. Is it still the same ship or a completely new ship? I hope that the stones and bricks making a building or the materials making an object from something centuries old is still the 100% original material or brick from all those years ago. If it were to be renovated, it just doesn’t feel the like it’s the same thing to me. If you see a picture of a 150 year old castle and see it in the modern day in front of you, what are the chances that one singular slab on the roof you are paying attention to has not even been touched since during the time of the photo? What are the chances that it has been replaced within the past 70 years? I always think about this so much but I’m not sure if anyone else has ever thought of anything similar to this. It annoys me and interests me to the ends of the earth. Sometimes I wish I could have a time machine and be there during that time. To us, a 200 year old chair is priceless, if it were to break, it would be like a tragedy, but if we were to time travel when that chair was brand new or a few years old, we wouldn’t care at all if it broke because it’s just s regular chair. Time can make anything valuable. Sometimes I apply this to the modern day. If I ripped up the paper in front of me, it broke a random pencil, I wouldn’t think much of it. To someone living in 150 years in the future, if they held that same paper or pencil, they’d probably be wearing gloves, or refuse to even touch it at all! Maybe we are living a historical moment that people from the future wish thy could go back in time to, but we just see it as our daily boring life just as we wish we could go back in time to say, the 1800s and experience a thing or two but to a person born during that time, they just think it’s just a regular boring day not knowing that EVERYTHING around them would be insanely valuable and historic in the future. EVERYTHING around us is definitely equally historic and priceless to someone 150 years in the future, you know what I mean? It’s great to think about the past, but we should also enjoy our moments now because it’s valued in the future. Maybe someone in the 1800s always thought about how life would be in the 1600s meanwhile they were living during a time I wish I could go back to and experience, meanwhile someone in the 2200s wishes the could go back and experience the 2000s, my current life. This also leads me to think about how our daily boring lives we think we are living are in reality treasured and nostalgic memories and moments to our future selves. If you keep thinking about the past, you won’t have memories of the present which gives your future self nothing to remember of your current self. So enjoy the moments right now because maybe in 20-30 years time it’ll be nostalgic; like how a person in the 80s or 90s thought they were living boring regular lives and are now looking back at those years as nostalgic years they wish they could go back to that’ll never be the same. Your future self in the 2040s or 2050s may be looking at your current 2020s self as the golden days and you may not know it yet until you can learn to comprehend this. We are all currently in the past when you think about it in that certain way. You may be reading this and thinking “my life sucks you’re wrong” but just let time do it’s thing and it’ll make any moment or physical object valuable. I doubt anyone has come this far to reading this but this is something I think about SO MUCH but can never speak of because nobody would really understand or care. This is what fascinates me to the ends of the earth. This is what keeps me up at night, filling me with curiosity and wonder. I love it so much. I live the concept of time so much. I just hope that one day I can meet someone who has been thinking or feeling the same way but I have yet to find that person on the same curiosity interest as me. I know that person would be my soul mate for sure. I have so much more to talk about time itself but this comment is probably my longest comment ever. I’ve been typing this for around 25 minutes at this point, letting my mind wonder off since it’s 1 am on February 4th, 2022. This usually happens, then I wake up embarrassed after seeing the aftermath of my rambling of my obsession of time. Anyway, hello to commenters from 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years in the future! Sometimes I see 12 year old comments and wonder what those commenters are doing in life now… maybe I can be that commenter with a 12 year comment with someone wondering the same thing to someone reading this in the future.
2:22 crazy to think that this lady in that photo was alive during baroque peroid, the classical era and the romantic era and was older then Beethoven, Mozart and probably was 3 years old when bach died
Just think about it, if the photography was invented just a few more decades earlier, we would've had pictures of the founding fathers, and possible even the American Revolution.
I mean going back to Ancient Egypt in lets say 3000 bc, someone inventing the paper just one day earlier could have fast forwarded us 100 years to the future by now.
The more I keep seeing stuff like this involving Queen Victoria, the more fascinated by her I become. The things that woman was privy too in her lifetime: the first trains, the first cars, the first photographs, the first voice recordings(there is one of her in another video from the 1880's). Keeping in mind that she was born exactly 200 years ago this past May.
MY grandma my dads mam was born in 1901 i knew her very well i was 12 when she died in 1979 , so she was born just still in the victorian reign , no tvs no telephones no radio no electricity or gas ,even if some of these things had been invented / discovered my grandma would not have experienced them till much later in life due to being very poor ///
Knowing that I just saw a picture on TH-cam in 2018 in a video showing a woman in a picture that was from the 1800s but she was born in the mid 1700s and wasn’t that far away from being alive in the 1600s really screwed up my head for the night and now I may not be able to sleep.
So prepared to have your mind blown: John Tyler was the 10th President of the United States and born in 1790. His GRANDSONS are alive and well and live about 25 minutes down the road from me. Imagine that your GRANDFATHER was born three centuries ago!
@@nicolasgonzalez2469 I know that it's common usage to call America a continent in Spanish, but it has never been common usage to call America a continent in English. In English, it is proper usage to talk of "North America" and "South America" as continents, but never just "America." In English if you wish to talk about the whole thing, you say "the Americas." I'm finding it more and more common for Spanish speakers to illegitimately try to force Spanish usage on English speakers and often in a very rude fashion. No, my friend, we do not have to use Spanish-language terminology. However, since you were writing in English it would be proper for you to use normal English usage, so it's rather clear that it was not the original poster who was acting as the "dumbass" here, as you put it.
I absolutely love these photographs, because you can see just how closely linked we are to history, and how much we separate ourselves just based on time. The "Tartan Ribbon" looks like it's from the 50s, and the colored landscape looks like it was taken yesterday. Cornelius' photo looks like anyone else's, just with costume, and the single everyman from the 1830's in the street photo is breathtaking.
Shut up we don't take it for granted, what are we supposed to do? Sulk about ppl in the 1800s because they didnt have phones? Plus we are STILL taking big ass steps for technology, literally nothing has changed
I have that feeling anytime I go to some place in the 1800’s or a movie/ photograph. It’s like I used to actually live in that time period at one point
@@KnoxzyGaming I believe that is psychological projection: you just take yourself to that reality what you see on those photos & movies. And then - you imagine how it would feel like if you were there. You do that via your subconsciousness, so you cannot notice that process (since it is real fast). And AFTER that process is done, your consciousness notices that 'hey man, something happened in subconsciousness'. And at that moment you experience the feeling you describe.
It’s insane to think how some of these men that were photographed actually lived around the time of even Napoleon Bonaparte... 3:09 For example, the man was around 35 years old when Napoleon ruled in France!
There are people in this video who were born during the reign of Louis XV, for crying out loud (1715-1774)! Then, they were in this world when his grandson, Louis XVI lost his head, and only then they would testify the ascenssion of Napoleon! They not only were contemporaries to the Napoleonic wars, but to wars that today sound nearly "medieval", such as the War of The Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and the Seven Years War (1756-1763), not to mention the french and american revolutionary wars, all long before the Napoleonic wars ravaged Europe!
Then there's people like Hannah Stilley Gorby who was older than Napoleon by over 20 years and She's older than James Madison and James Monroe. Actually she's almost as old as Thomas Jefferson.
2:41 his parents, grandparents maybe born in 1650-1699 years, middle ages... And he maybe known stories of his parents, grandparents from middle ages... and still had in his head at the moment of photo, also he learned from his parents mimic of face, maybe some fashion, and we can see little bit of life of middle ages in photos right now!!!
Lol middle age is before discovery of the amerikas by christophe colombus 1492. And that is a basic knowledge 😂 Go back watching which make up kim kardashian choosed this week 😂
incredible bunch of photographs! i had no idea there was a way to take color photos in the 1800’s. it was probably pretty expensive, but they sure are amazing. and i love your captions. no one else really does that.
It is weird to see James Clerk Maxwell described as a Scottish "photographer", although I suppose it may not be altogether inapt. He was the inventor of color photography, but he is best known as a physicist who introduced "Maxwell's equations" concerning the interactions between electric and magnetic fields.
I found it VERY interesting seeing how people and places looked in the 1800's, i am not used to seeing color photographs of towns without there being power lines (especially the trafalger square and paris pictures)
Yea with the old streets imagine many of these houses still stand and walking in them feels like you walk through paper houses but now they have toilets,baths electricity and lights. Back then they only had candles probably no bath would most likely spent most of the day outside and when the sun wen't down maybe only a mother would be sowing a little and the rest would sleep since there wasn't much to do anymore.
Going through my great-grandma's stuff after her youngest son died last year, we've found photos from the 1880s. She was born in 1899 and knew her great-grandmother who was born in 1822 and died in 1911. Her and her daughters from the 1880s and possibly one of those daughters and several of her kids from around 1876 - we haven't confirmed that yet - are the oldest photos with a few others from the 1890s and early 1900s. Even some on the farm from the early to middle 1910s are pretty amazing and show just how far photography had come even though they are still century-old and more. We are incredibly lucky to have one part of the family that loved taking pictures enough even to have several dozen spread over about 40 years time, counting the family ones from the early 20s. It's really a celebration of life and the joy of family that I imagine many of these people who got their pictures taken had.
Something about that last photo is so striking. When we see old black-and-white photos, it is easy to feel disconnected from the reality of the past, because they are "historical", and on some level at least I can't fully imagine myself in the shoes of someone living in that era. But seeing a color photograph of nature and a town in 1877 is a potent reminder that we are still breathing the same air, going out to look at the trees, enjoying the sunshine, walking on the same Earth, living the same experience of being human. Of course, there have been many cultural and technological changes since then, but so much is the same, and I think it can give us a powerful dose of humility.
Fantastic collection of the many Firsts. I loved seeing them, all! The first color Photographs are incredible to see! Those firsts to now, the digital. I can imagine how those early photographers may feel seeing the present photos. Also it’s now available to even to the poorest of people. Truly, man has advanced a lot! Thank you. I have much enjoyed seeing.👍😊
Kenneth Pettersen I would travel to the 1700s so many great figures to meet. I also wouldn’t mind travelling to early 1800s. However, I don’t care to see the world after 1880 since I think it becomes to close to our own timeline and not so interesting. I wouldn’t mind travelling 500 years in the future though.
Alright, well just know that you're going to see ALOT of racism, sexism, discrimination, abuse, poverty, slavery, etc. Oh yeah, and most people back then were VERY uneducated, and usually weren't in very good health. But, yeah! Traveling to the past DEFINITELY seems like it'd be fun!
What’s missing from this is the photograph of the 1st duke of wellington (as an old man). yes, there is a photograph of the man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo!
I found the picture of someone born in 1746 to be amazing - not the technology of it, but to be able to see the image of a person born so long ago is amazing. I have seen a photo of my great great great grandfather, who was born in 1795. What is fascinating to me is I can see from whom my father inherited some of his physical features (colouring, deep set eyes and prominent brow line). I can imagine this woman’s great great great great great great grandchildren looking at this and seeing a distant ancestor.
@@corygriffiths4394 Not that old - only 60. My father was 40 when I was born - so there is 100 years. My grandfather was 36 when my father was born, and I have worked out the triple great grandfather was also 40 when my double great grandfather was born. So you can see at least 3 of the generations have been 35 - 40 years. I hadn’t realised that until now.
There's a photo of a man born in the 1700s and an ancient horse. I know it looks like a painting but imagine...that man would not know he is going to be seen by people in the year of 2018. Wonder what he would say if he could see it now
I had old ones from family 1850's .My father gave them to the Hopewell Museum in 1987.Holographs and old tin type.The photos were in near perfect condition .
these old photos deserve to be remembered in history as the were the starting point of the photo-era in which million of photos are taken ever day! They probably never knew that this new device would just explode over time...
I would be like a total torest and like bring my Apple Watch and be like taking a video I would be like doing all the memes and for lunch I would have chicken buffs just to mess with their heads
Na I doubt they would be very impressed as none of the apps would work, you could not speak to anyone on it, the battery would go flat in a few hours and you would have nowhere to plug the charger.
Thank you so much for posting this!! It is remarkable; I sat enthralled. (and feeling a little sorry for the nitpickers) Looking at those faces, and *knowing* how far back in time they were taken, feels a little like touching a bit of the past with the tips of your fingers. Ha, this is the closest most of us will ever come to seeing a ghost. How I love those clear, black and white photos!
What an incredible invention was photography. The ability to capture a unique place in time and space, that will/can never be repeated. Thank you to whoever put this together for providing informative captions to locate and put context to the images. Nothing worse than random unidentified images, where the subject is, in effect, lost to knowledge, other than being just an 'old image'.
I live in Philadelphia, Pa not far from where Robert Cornelius Lived and had his Mansion in what is now Wissinoming Park in Northeast Philadelphia, there is a Historical Marker off of Market Street saying he is the First man to Photograph a selfie,it is well known here. August 2019
I'm a photography geek sort of. I always love taking pictures of moments in nature or people and such. It's just such a pretty thing. It's interesting to see what people have taken before me. Crazy to think these were taken around the times of my great great grandparents or possibly even my great great great grandparents. The French one is cool because some of my family would have been there at the time.
Well you will be good for this question..... Someone gave me a camera from 1925 but it doesn't work will it cost alot to restore and does it hold value
0:22 *To put into perspective how old this photo is, here are some things that were happening back then.* 1. This was taken less than 10 years after the American Revolution ended. 2. This was taken at least 40 years before the Victorian Times, back in the Georgian Times. That was back when women wore those huge wigs btw. 3. The French Revolution had only just started. 4. The slave trade was still alive and well back then. 5. That photo youre looking at is almost 300 years old
@@dead9247 @ they didnt , scuba, self contained underwater breathing apparatus ...................the diver in the photo had air pumped down to him via tubes, not " self contained " sorry
@@kirstymackenzie2437 ,I live in an area of Philadelphia, Pa. Called Wissinoming, I can walk to the Park that was once Part of the Estate of Robert Cornelius ( Wissinoming Park)
The guy that was polishing his shoes in one of the first photographs didn't realize he just made history.
John F. Kennedy that’s for real lol,bet he had no clue when he went to get his shoes polished that day that he would forever be ingraven into history forevermore as an undisputed world record holder
Rocky Losco Only problem is, we’ll never know exactly who that man is or was.
I wonder who he was.
Are you the real "Brett Kavanaugh" from the Supreme Court?
If it was today he'd sue
Earliest known photo...takes a photo of a hand-drawn picture
That's like inventing the car and having it pulled by horses
Oooh, he took a photo of a picture! I was so confused as to why the video is calling a sketch a photograph. And I was also wondering why ppl weren't pointing this out. I get it now. Thank you!
Likely because the exposure took so long that this was the most convenient way to do it.
@@domainofthesun4400, 1826 was the most renowned "photo" of rooftops in a village in France, you would not see any people because of the time of exposure demanded no physical movement.
The picture was of the etching. The photographer was probably looking for something to photograph and it seemed like something to photograph.
waofy lol
Just a thought- The lady in the photograph at 2:22 born in 1746 probably communicated with and knew people from the 1600s...crazy!
She’d probably have to meet them at 77 just to remember someone who was born in 1699 (at that age anyway) (I think)
Not photography related, but the grandchildren of 10th President John Tyler are still alive (or maybe just recently passed on the last year or so).
That’s only 3 presidents after Andrew Jackson (seen in this video) and 35 presidents ago. Tyler was born in 1790 and died in 1862.
@@britannia3421 she was born in 1746 so someone born in 1699 would have been 47 yrs old at the time of her birth, even 67 years old when she was 20, not totally unrealistic.
@@peterp2153 wow!
QuentinC yep! And I bet the people she knew met people who met people from the 1500s
Securty Cams still have the same resolution in 2019...
but they move;) wow we have not improved that much...
Security cams have bad resolution because they need to waste minimal energy + be extremely small for more effective / stealthy security. Alongside this if they did have better resolution they’d run out of battery every week or so in comparison to the 6 months of battery life currently
@@moronichuman762 I didn't know that! Thanks for that tidbit of knowledge!
I guess I never really thought about it before.
1:49 "Oh i'm just gonna have my shoes polished today"
200 years later: "Here is one of the most oldest photograph in history"
RainBow_ starlight ‘most’ needs to be omitted and ‘photograph’ made plural.
@@yammmit ok boomer
Zeek zero that meme is going to die quite quickly if it’s used in situations like this, where there is no confirmation on whether the person you’re replying to is, in fact, a ‘boomer.’ I’m Gen Z. :)
@@yammmit ok zoomer
yammmit ok boomer
the fact that theres a picture of someone who served in the revolutionary war is insane
Yeah, it is.
Especially one who crossed the Delaware with George Washington.
Have you checked out on TH-cam the 1950's gameshow appearance of a man who witnessed the 1865 assassination of Lincoln? He was in his 90's when he appeared on the gameshow. And he almost didn't make it because he'd fallen the night before. Had a black eye.
@@slidezone9056 yes unbelievable
There are several photos of men that fought in the war.
Crazy we have a photo of a guy that crossed the Delaware with George Washington. So awesome.
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@Rare Color Films ok😊
Amazing photos.....Must treasures them...So antique.. recuerdos ... Great photos .
@Ben I know, it's pretty wow!!
0:59 This actually looks like a normal photo but printed with a school printer
Scanned and copied
So true
Perfect analogy
Thanks, I can't unsee it now
Ikr
Wouldn't it be cool to know who that man was getting his shoes shined? No one will ever know, and neither did he.
i thought the same ha 👍
+Renee N.
He was probably stomping on a hooker.
+Renee N. His name is Herman Munster and he lives at 1313 Mockingbird Ln, Transexaul, Translvania.
***** Jack wasn't the only pimp back then. I and this was France, JesusSnatch.
+Wittmann73 leave him here! no more shines billy
It's amazing that they have photos of people born in the 18th century.
that's exactly what I thought
Actually the 1700s
Tom Tom ...As opposed to the 18th century?
Nevermind i didn't read it well.
There's a fairly good possibility that the famed Turin Shroud is an early photograph.
1:02 security camera pictures be like
Lol
more like 1:49
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@ true lol
The comment sounds like they affect the history into weirder lol
6:06 Oh my god I live there!!
The "city" has only a 30k population so that's quite amazing
What really that’s so cool have you ever been to that exact same spot if not go there!
Congrats you've just made history
@@jejh600 well maybe not but I will 💪🏼
@@jejh600 but the town has changed a lot and now there are houses here I guess
Well, it's a beautiful place.
Those old photographs are amazing. In a way, they are a form of time travel. You wonder what the air smelled like, what color were their clothes, what were they thinking, what were they going to do that day, etc. Very interesting.
smell, colors etc were very similar.... however, what gives eras distinction re photo, is the window into their faces. If you look at them closely, almost like an artist, you can measure the pressures & influencers of day to day life... you can literally see how the factors of life & stress shaped peoples faces. survival was more a day to day concern then, you can see it in their faces.
@@kelvinkloud pretty sure it smelled like shit back then
@@brianmedina5692 uh there was no pollution back then no engines no karens it probably smelt great
@@bcuxry4182 people threw their shit out on the streets in bigger cities and there was no sewer system per say
@@brianmedina5692 Just walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans in July .. you can still smell the 300+ years of piss and vomit. Baked into the streets, and walls. I love New Orleans, so much .. but I've never walked around a touristy area in the U.S., that smells like the Quarter.
Its amazing to think of time and how each generation touches another. When I was 4 in 1972, I had a neighbor man who was born in 1868. He was in good shape , walked everywhere, and wore overalls, a straw hat, and chewed tobacco and taught me how to call turkeys.
Great story.
Bizarre! Now everyone from that era is long gone.
@@wawawawwawaawwawa4965 Really opens your eyes to how short 100 years really is.
@@johnf.kennedy7022 my late grandmother met a men that had 117 years of age, and that's rare to see.
@@TheTrueSpottedStripe Not really. 100 years is a very long time to be alive. The amount of changes you’d see, the amount of people met, all the experiences
01:02 Trying to imagine the absolute stillness and quiet of the scene in this picture... No airplanes, no automobiles, no electric buzz of power lines, no radio or TV blaring .... just the wind, and the birds singing, maybe some horses clipclopping below, and some people down below in the street, quietly chatting ,..... you can actually hear yourself think ....... How utterly peaceful this moment in this photograph seems....
Impressive words you put!
The 1837 photo is fascinating. The world was still full of people who could remember the 1700s. Amazing.
And imposible first camera was in 1904
@@Miki_big_red_machine Wrong. The first photographs were taken in 1826. Matthew Brady took scores of photos during the Civil War in the 1860s. The first motion picture was made in 1895.
@@Miki_big_red_machinedid you... watch the video you commented on
Yep, Thomas Carlyle wrote a history of the French Revolution around that time. Very lively, even melodramatic in some scenes, not necessarily true in details -- BUT he was able to talk to lots of people who still remembered those events or had even taken an active part in them! (It was only as far away as the late 1970s are now)
@@Miki_big_red_machineBy the 1800's photography was popular. War correspondents often took photos of the battlefields in the Civil War, and Wild West outlaws like Billy the Kid had their photos taken too.
I love going to graveyards and search for really old graves. Some of them are from 1700's.
1700s isn't that old. Maybe for Americans, but most countries have been established since before medieval times...
@@valkyrja-- Medieval people aren't usually in modern graveyards. My nation exists since 1581 and it's hard to find gravestones with birthdates before 1850
Actually depending on the country, there are laws that may put a time limit on graves. It's pretty normal that there aren't a lot of old graves. I'll check in Parisian graveyards after my exams to compare.
@@MFvanBylandt huh, 1581? where do you live, like in a european nation like ireland?
@@regnij01 The Netherlands declared itself independent from the Spanish crown in 1581.
I have a photo of my 3rd great grandmother dated 1858
Kyle Blair that’s so cool, keep it in good condition
impressive, i think the oldest photo our family has is a photo of our double great grandmother and her friend from like the 1920's.
on the topic of photos, i we have 2 treasured photos from the fist spacewalk with signings from Edd White.
My grandfather was an engineer for edd white when he was in the Air Force at the time, and when he sent a letter to White, he responded with them.
Please take a picture of it with your phone and post it.
Kyle Blair post it or you’re lying. Just post a link here to wherever you post it
I do, too! Several relatives, actually. They looked very old and grim.
I found a modern photo of 4:52 online nearly IDENTICAL to the picture here and then put the two in a photo editing app (photoshop mix on my phone) and put each other on top of each other and then changed the opacity of the old photo, making it a slider to see the difference between then and now. The two pictures were taken in the same exact spot and height and angle. At this point I’m wondering if the photographer did it on purpose, and if they did, I salute them. I love doing this type of “before and after” comparison to other historic places I visit and to old family photos where I go to the same exact place, put the camera in the same exact spot, maybe even in the same space molecularly that the old camera took up was taken in the same angle and all to capture a near replica of the old picture in the modern day and then compare the two. I love seeing what has changed and what hasn’t between two photos and it sometimes feels impossible that the only thing separating the two subjects of the two photos are time. It feels like they aren’t the same thing but at the same time it does. Whenever I go to visit an old building from centuries past or see an object that old, I really hope that it hadn’t had any renovations. I know that they make the thing in question lasts longer but at that point, is it even still the same object/building if you’re changing everything about it? It’s like the ship of Theseus. You have a ship, and each year you replace a wooden board until at some point every single wooden board on the ship has been replaced with a new identical board. Is it still the same ship or a completely new ship? I hope that the stones and bricks making a building or the materials making an object from something centuries old is still the 100% original material or brick from all those years ago. If it were to be renovated, it just doesn’t feel the like it’s the same thing to me. If you see a picture of a 150 year old castle and see it in the modern day in front of you, what are the chances that one singular slab on the roof you are paying attention to has not even been touched since during the time of the photo? What are the chances that it has been replaced within the past 70 years? I always think about this so much but I’m not sure if anyone else has ever thought of anything similar to this. It annoys me and interests me to the ends of the earth. Sometimes I wish I could have a time machine and be there during that time. To us, a 200 year old chair is priceless, if it were to break, it would be like a tragedy, but if we were to time travel when that chair was brand new or a few years old, we wouldn’t care at all if it broke because it’s just s regular chair. Time can make anything valuable. Sometimes I apply this to the modern day. If I ripped up the paper in front of me, it broke a random pencil, I wouldn’t think much of it. To someone living in 150 years in the future, if they held that same paper or pencil, they’d probably be wearing gloves, or refuse to even touch it at all! Maybe we are living a historical moment that people from the future wish thy could go back in time to, but we just see it as our daily boring life just as we wish we could go back in time to say, the 1800s and experience a thing or two but to a person born during that time, they just think it’s just a regular boring day not knowing that EVERYTHING around them would be insanely valuable and historic in the future. EVERYTHING around us is definitely equally historic and priceless to someone 150 years in the future, you know what I mean? It’s great to think about the past, but we should also enjoy our moments now because it’s valued in the future. Maybe someone in the 1800s always thought about how life would be in the 1600s meanwhile they were living during a time I wish I could go back to and experience, meanwhile someone in the 2200s wishes the could go back and experience the 2000s, my current life. This also leads me to think about how our daily boring lives we think we are living are in reality treasured and nostalgic memories and moments to our future selves. If you keep thinking about the past, you won’t have memories of the present which gives your future self nothing to remember of your current self. So enjoy the moments right now because maybe in 20-30 years time it’ll be nostalgic; like how a person in the 80s or 90s thought they were living boring regular lives and are now looking back at those years as nostalgic years they wish they could go back to that’ll never be the same. Your future self in the 2040s or 2050s may be looking at your current 2020s self as the golden days and you may not know it yet until you can learn to comprehend this. We are all currently in the past when you think about it in that certain way. You may be reading this and thinking “my life sucks you’re wrong” but just let time do it’s thing and it’ll make any moment or physical object valuable. I doubt anyone has come this far to reading this but this is something I think about SO MUCH but can never speak of because nobody would really understand or care. This is what fascinates me to the ends of the earth. This is what keeps me up at night, filling me with curiosity and wonder. I love it so much. I live the concept of time so much. I just hope that one day I can meet someone who has been thinking or feeling the same way but I have yet to find that person on the same curiosity interest as me. I know that person would be my soul mate for sure. I have so much more to talk about time itself but this comment is probably my longest comment ever. I’ve been typing this for around 25 minutes at this point, letting my mind wonder off since it’s 1 am on February 4th, 2022. This usually happens, then I wake up embarrassed after seeing the aftermath of my rambling of my obsession of time. Anyway, hello to commenters from 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years in the future! Sometimes I see 12 year old comments and wonder what those commenters are doing in life now… maybe I can be that commenter with a 12 year comment with someone wondering the same thing to someone reading this in the future.
I did read your comment “all the way through” and found your musings about the value time places on the ordinary thoughtful.
Keep doing what you're doing and thinking how you're thinking, it's a very cool thing.
Bro wrote a novel 💀
I also read all the way through, and wanted to say that your thoughts are uplifting and wonderful. Thank you very much.
Even matpat is unwilling to read that entire thing
2:22 crazy to think that this lady in that photo was alive during baroque peroid, the classical era and the romantic era and was older then Beethoven, Mozart and probably was 3 years old when bach died
Just think about it, if the photography was invented just a few more decades earlier, we would've had pictures of the founding fathers, and possible even the American Revolution.
fucking crazy.
I mean going back to Ancient Egypt in lets say 3000 bc, someone inventing the paper just one day earlier could have fast forwarded us 100 years to the future by now.
Yeah, because American history is all that matters, right? :(
Founding fathers mostly crooks anyway nothing has changed
CJC then why are you looking at this video. Everyone has faults.
When you have physics test the next morning but you watch "World's Oldest Photographs".
Don't lie, we've all been there
I do have a Physics exam tomorrow. :)
Richard Gustafsson me too lol
But you’re not wasting your time either. You’re learning about history! The worlds oldest photographs are such an interesting topic. :)
Yes, but I don't have cognitive abilities to understand physics so algebra would be a better example. Basic algebra, mind you.
@Nathalie Ovalle Messias 10 no, why?
The more I keep seeing stuff like this involving Queen Victoria, the more fascinated by her I become. The things that woman was privy too in her lifetime: the first trains, the first cars, the first photographs, the first voice recordings(there is one of her in another video from the 1880's). Keeping in mind that she was born exactly 200 years ago this past May.
MY grandma my dads mam was born in 1901 i knew her very well i was 12 when she died in 1979 , so she was born just still in the victorian reign , no tvs no telephones no radio no electricity or gas ,even if some of these things had been invented / discovered my grandma would not have experienced them till much later in life due to being very poor ///
When i see these old pictures i hope they had more happiness than sadness in their lives.
Unlikely the Victorian era was tough
Knowing that I just saw a picture on TH-cam in 2018 in a video showing a woman in a picture that was from the 1800s but she was born in the mid 1700s and wasn’t that far away from being alive in the 1600s really screwed up my head for the night and now I may not be able to sleep.
So prepared to have your mind blown: John Tyler was the 10th President of the United States and born in 1790. His GRANDSONS are alive and well and live about 25 minutes down the road from me. Imagine that your GRANDFATHER was born three centuries ago!
And in 150 years someone will read your comment and think "Wow, that's so cool, I wonder who was this guy"
I wonder if they've still got any footage from the stone age, and hairy mammoths, sabre toothed tigers and so on. Amazing
@@wendywhoisit1819 Lol. "First Internet Comment." I could envision a video about it in 2200.
Relax....Jupiter can hold 1300 Earths....now go get some rest!
2:28 Photo of someone alive before America was a nation. Trippy to think of.
Who was born as a British citizen o.O.
@@nicolasgonzalez2469 he obviously meant the United States of America. Learn to fucking infrence.
Nicolas Gonzalez North America and South America are continents. The United States of America is a nation.
@@nicolasgonzalez2469 I know that it's common usage to call America a continent in Spanish, but it has never been common usage to call America a continent in English. In English, it is proper usage to talk of "North America" and "South America" as continents, but never just "America." In English if you wish to talk about the whole thing, you say "the Americas."
I'm finding it more and more common for Spanish speakers to illegitimately try to force Spanish usage on English speakers and often in a very rude fashion. No, my friend, we do not have to use Spanish-language terminology. However, since you were writing in English it would be proper for you to use normal English usage, so it's rather clear that it was not the original poster who was acting as the "dumbass" here, as you put it.
@@JRRLewis you would be surprised by how many just say merica now.
You get a sense of how amazing photography must have been at the beginning.....Almost magical, awe-inspiring
4:02 even wider than wide putin
It’s wide shimazu
_Impossible_
It's probably the chair
3:56 The black chair Shimazu Nariakira has behind him, makes it look like he has really wide shoulders.
nah it's not a chair, that's part of his outfit. if you look up sengoku era generals you'll see how wide the shoulder of those clothings were
@@NakuruKouChannel Exactly. It's typical Samourai clothing.
True
@@martijnspruit It's Samurai
and now 200 years later thousands of photos are taken every second
More like millions.
Test Question: explain what’s happening in the picture
The picture: 1:03
They chillen
Too Tuff Steven thanos snappin away that building.
The time passes by...
He exposed this photo for about 8 hours.
🤣🤣
Yeah I have never been able to make that picture out
Why does my son look evil in his photo?
Clever because your TH-cam channel name is john adams
Shut up @Arcatextor
@@TheLordOfNothing no u
@@terrortiset6669 no u
He always look evil Mr. Adams lol
I do hope they find those missing photos from the 1790s, it's unlikely but it'd be pretty cool
really?
whats his name?!
oh
They already have, search ''1790 photograph'' and find the one with the brown leaf, that is the first and oldest photograph in human history.
@@Galaxius2117 wait really??????????????????????? i thought it was invented in 1820s
I want to see something from 1776! 😁
I absolutely love these photographs, because you can see just how closely linked we are to history, and how much we separate ourselves just based on time. The "Tartan Ribbon" looks like it's from the 50s, and the colored landscape looks like it was taken yesterday. Cornelius' photo looks like anyone else's, just with costume, and the single everyman from the 1830's in the street photo is breathtaking.
1:30
I was in the white apartment at that time, Room 6.
Now it's a GameStop.
John Johnson was a pretty good-looking dude, bet he got all the 1830s women.
Oh he did....
Robert Cornelius is the man.
I'd only date the asian ones because europeans didn't bathe but we wear masks now so maybe it wouldn't be too bad 😄
@@jenseninterceptors They did bathe, you goofball. Why tell lies?
that's Robert Cornelius not John Johnson
Amazing. How we take our modern technology for granted, forgetting the giant steps taken to get us here.
Very true
Shut up we don't take it for granted, what are we supposed to do? Sulk about ppl in the 1800s because they didnt have phones? Plus we are STILL taking big ass steps for technology, literally nothing has changed
Mark Rogers shut the fuck up mark!
barbarynpk 2 lame ass
Mark Rogers it's amazing how we don't ”awe” at everything considered modern technology ?
this video makes my heart do the thing it does when you feel nostalgia even though ive never experienced life during that time
I know. I feel like a man in the war saying good day.
ITS THE ONE AND ONLY ok
im pretty sure thats called anemoia !! :3
I have that feeling anytime I go to some place in the 1800’s or a movie/ photograph. It’s like I used to actually live in that time period at one point
@@KnoxzyGaming I believe that is psychological projection: you just take yourself to that reality what you see on those photos & movies. And then - you imagine how it would feel like if you were there. You do that via your subconsciousness, so you cannot notice that process (since it is real fast). And AFTER that process is done, your consciousness notices that 'hey man, something happened in subconsciousness'. And at that moment you experience the feeling you describe.
This is my favorite thing about TH-cam. These early photos are like traveling back in time
It’s insane to think how some of these men that were photographed actually lived around the time of even Napoleon Bonaparte... 3:09 For example, the man was around 35 years old when Napoleon ruled in France!
There are people in this video who were born during the reign of Louis XV, for crying out loud (1715-1774)! Then, they were in this world when his grandson, Louis XVI lost his head, and only then they would testify the ascenssion of Napoleon! They not only were contemporaries to the Napoleonic wars, but to wars that today sound nearly "medieval", such as the War of The Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and the Seven Years War (1756-1763), not to mention the french and american revolutionary wars, all long before the Napoleonic wars ravaged Europe!
Then there's people like Hannah Stilley Gorby who was older than Napoleon by over 20 years and She's older than James Madison and James Monroe. Actually she's almost as old as Thomas Jefferson.
John Johnson a fine name.
Dick Johnson is even finer.
Dick Thomas wins eventually!
Looking back, Bogdan Bogdanovich is pretty sweet.
Actually the guy who took that selfie was named Robert Cornelius.
@@coolguy02536 look, I surprisingly found an NBA fan
It's fascinating to think lots of these were taken only about 40 years after the French Revolution.
Rhys Nichols there is actually pictures of soldiers who severed under Napoleon Bonaparte!
3:00 It's actually a 1850 daguerreotype of a painting of the president. The 1841 daguerreotype taken on his inauguration is lost.
Yes unfortunately😔
2:41 his parents, grandparents maybe born in 1650-1699 years, middle ages... And he maybe known stories of his parents, grandparents from middle ages... and still had in his head at the moment of photo, also he learned from his parents mimic of face, maybe some fashion, and we can see little bit of life of middle ages in photos right now!!!
1650 is under the modern era, more specifically late Renaissance, but nevertheless it's crazy to think about.
17th century is not middle ages as well as 16th century is not. Actually even 15th century is considered as very late medieval age.
Conrad Heyer in 1852 is very much offended by your comment😂
Lol middle age is before discovery of the amerikas by christophe colombus 1492. And that is a basic knowledge 😂
Go back watching which make up kim kardashian choosed this week 😂
You think 1650-1699 it was knights and sword time 😂
Am I the only one that thinks 1:58 is incredibly handsome??!
Ikr.😍
He looks like beckham agree with that?
no lots of people do
but i like conrad heyer
Yeah ❤
That 200 year old filter has you fooled.
Ah, Robert Cornelius--fell in love with him the moment I saw him...what a handsome man!!!
I was born waaay too late!
km, you are right about his name being Robert Cornelius. "John Johnson" is incorrect.
John Jonhson was a cutie back in 1839!! ❤ 1:39
incredible bunch of photographs! i had no idea there was a way to take color photos in the 1800’s. it was probably pretty expensive, but they sure are amazing. and i love your captions. no one else really does that.
Alexa Penn ?? About colors.. that is that modern people made.
1:59 He's buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
It is weird to see James Clerk Maxwell described as a Scottish "photographer", although I suppose it may not be altogether inapt. He was the inventor of color photography, but he is best known as a physicist who introduced "Maxwell's equations" concerning the interactions between electric and magnetic fields.
I have a picture of my great grandparents that was taken in 1870's and unfortunately it's fading away because of it's oldness
For God's sake consult a photographic archivalist. You need to get with a trained professional to start a preservation program NOW!
I'm struggling to find one here in my country
1:59 The man who took the first selfie is actually really hot. Guess that's why he took it 😆
He kinda reminds me of Luci from XMoqaX
Simpin' for a guy from 1839
why doez he look like markiplier
@@faelynconnielover WHAT OMG
I found it VERY interesting seeing how people and places looked in the 1800's, i am not used to seeing color photographs of towns without there being power lines (especially the trafalger square and paris pictures)
They were hand-tinted which was an art in itself.
Yea with the old streets imagine many of these houses still stand and walking in them feels like you walk through paper houses but now they have toilets,baths electricity and lights. Back then they only had candles probably no bath would most likely spent most of the day outside and when the sun wen't down maybe only a mother would be sowing a little and the rest would sleep since there wasn't much to do anymore.
Like going back in a time machine.
Yep.
2:00 - the first selfie by 26 year old photographer John Johnson is so beautiful...what a gorgeous 💗 boy he was 😍
I bet he ruffled a few crinolines in his time!
@@yasminm7157 A Y O --
his name is not john johnson. His name is Robert Cornelius
1:44 looks the same quality as all those Bigfoot sighting photos
4:02 roblox In 1840s?
Lmao
@@imaginesaidbigchungusin2022 I forgot I even posted this comment lmao
YES XD
90% of the rich people would be the people you see now
@@b_erliner 1850s
Freakin’ fascinating...but these old photos are a stark reminder of my own mortality.
4:03 W I D E
*W I D E*
W I D E
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W I D E
W I D E
4:02 Police be like: Have you seen this man?
Who else thought of Monty Python from that music in the beginning? I'm sure I wasn't the only one.
aBitterMelon Oh, I just noticed the description.
Sadly I was waiting for the raspberry......
OMG Robert Cornelius was GORGEOUS!! Where is my time machine when I need it?????
i need a time machine as well
There is a photo online that Cornelius took of an unknown man who looks like a 20 something Clint Eastwood. Amazing.
I thought the same thing, smokin hot !
I will volunteer to come along for the trip as well ;-)
I will take all you ladies on. He's mine.
Going through my great-grandma's stuff after her youngest son died last year, we've found photos from the 1880s. She was born in 1899 and knew her great-grandmother who was born in 1822 and died in 1911. Her and her daughters from the 1880s and possibly one of those daughters and several of her kids from around 1876 - we haven't confirmed that yet - are the oldest photos with a few others from the 1890s and early 1900s. Even some on the farm from the early to middle 1910s are pretty amazing and show just how far photography had come even though they are still century-old and more. We are incredibly lucky to have one part of the family that loved taking pictures enough even to have several dozen spread over about 40 years time, counting the family ones from the early 20s. It's really a celebration of life and the joy of family that I imagine many of these people who got their pictures taken had.
Something about that last photo is so striking. When we see old black-and-white photos, it is easy to feel disconnected from the reality of the past, because they are "historical", and on some level at least I can't fully imagine myself in the shoes of someone living in that era. But seeing a color photograph of nature and a town in 1877 is a potent reminder that we are still breathing the same air, going out to look at the trees, enjoying the sunshine, walking on the same Earth, living the same experience of being human. Of course, there have been many cultural and technological changes since then, but so much is the same, and I think it can give us a powerful dose of humility.
John Johnson took the first selfie! He was frustrated trying to upload it to the telegraph.
Lolol
Holy shit. Conrad Heyer looks amazing for 103.
He also had the world's first face lift.
ThatSmartHotGuy That's literally what I thought. ._____.
ThatSmartHotGuy He was 97 when the picture was taken.
Mark Johnson He was born in 1749 and the photo was from 1852.
And he lived to 107!
Fantastic collection of the many Firsts. I loved seeing them, all! The first color Photographs are incredible to see! Those firsts to now, the digital. I can imagine how those early photographers may feel seeing the present photos. Also it’s now available to even to the poorest of people. Truly, man has advanced a lot!
Thank you. I have much enjoyed seeing.👍😊
The quality of some of these is just incredible, considering the relative lack of knowledge of chemicals, etc involved & their age. Totally amazing!
If I could choose between travelling to the 1800s or the 2200s I would travel back to the 1800s!
good luck
Kenneth Pettersen
I would travel to the 1700s so many great figures to meet. I also wouldn’t mind travelling to early 1800s. However, I don’t care to see the world after 1880 since I think it becomes to close to our own timeline and not so interesting. I wouldn’t mind travelling 500 years in the future though.
DJ FX
I’ll have my vaccinations before I go.
Alright, well just know that you're going to see ALOT of racism, sexism, discrimination, abuse, poverty, slavery, etc. Oh yeah, and most people back then were VERY uneducated, and usually weren't in very good health. But, yeah! Traveling to the past DEFINITELY seems like it'd be fun!
@@iamstewpit6740 yeah also you cant act like a bitch back then or they would make you there bitch. So dont be a pussy like everyone is today
2:00 World's oldest selfie.
Yeah, what I was gonna write xD
Frostyxx lol. yeah
XD
true lol
PlasmaMongoose It's not a selfie..
What’s missing from this is the photograph of the 1st duke of wellington (as an old man). yes, there is a photograph of the man who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo!
I found the picture of someone born in 1746 to be amazing - not the technology of it, but to be able to see the image of a person born so long ago is amazing.
I have seen a photo of my great great great grandfather, who was born in 1795. What is fascinating to me is I can see from whom my father inherited some of his physical features (colouring, deep set eyes and prominent brow line). I can imagine this woman’s great great great great great great grandchildren looking at this and seeing a distant ancestor.
You must be really old if you’re Great Great Grandfather was born in 1795
@@corygriffiths4394 Not that old - only 60.
My father was 40 when I was born - so there is 100 years. My grandfather was 36 when my father was born, and I have worked out the triple great grandfather was also 40 when my double great grandfather was born. So you can see at least 3 of the generations have been 35 - 40 years. I hadn’t realised that until now.
There's a photo of a man born in the 1700s and an ancient horse. I know it looks like a painting but imagine...that man would not know he is going to be seen by people in the year of 2018. Wonder what he would say if he could see it now
He would say, wow I am very old indeed
WWG1WGA UK What we’d say in the 2200s
He'd say Biden is an idiot
Thanks, Max. That was really rather good.
Much Appreciated x
The Gods Right-Hand Man You are quite welcome, sir.
I just love all these old pictures.. I love nostalgia!! Thanks for sharing them.. (Kimmy Hawk)
An extremely fascinating collage of pictures! Thank goodness they still exist!!
I had old ones from family 1850's .My father gave them to the Hopewell Museum in 1987.Holographs and old tin type.The photos were in near perfect condition .
Holographs?
some of these are better than my phone camera
The self portrait at 1:59 is that of Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography and a lamp manufacturer.
these old photos deserve to be remembered in history as the were the starting point of the photo-era in which million of photos are taken ever day! They probably never knew that this new device would just explode over time...
Truely amazing. Imagine being able to travel back in time and show them a smartphone. They'd burn you for wichcraft 😂
Yea, I think travelling in time would get you burned for witchcraft
I would be like a total torest and like bring my Apple Watch and be like taking a video I would be like doing all the memes and for lunch I would have chicken buffs just to mess with their heads
Na I doubt they would be very impressed as none of the apps would work, you could not speak to anyone on it, the battery would go flat in a few hours and you would have nowhere to plug the charger.
@@garypowell1540 unless you bring a solar powered battery…still more or less useless though.
@@garypowell1540 yeah they would just not the internet ones
1:59 This photo totally kills many modern selfies.
Amazing. I had no idea that color photography goes back to such an early date. Thanks for posting this.
Never have I wanted a video to last longer until now. Great video!
Thank you so much for posting this!! It is remarkable; I sat enthralled. (and feeling a little sorry for the nitpickers) Looking at those faces, and *knowing* how far back in time they were taken, feels a little like touching a bit of the past with the tips of your fingers. Ha, this is the closest most of us will ever come to seeing a ghost. How I love those clear, black and white photos!
What an incredible invention was photography. The ability to capture a unique place in time and space, that will/can never be repeated. Thank you to whoever put this together for providing informative captions to locate and put context to the images. Nothing worse than random unidentified images, where the subject is, in effect, lost to knowledge, other than being just an 'old image'.
I live in Philadelphia, Pa not far from where Robert Cornelius Lived and had his Mansion in what is now Wissinoming Park in Northeast Philadelphia, there is a Historical Marker off of Market Street saying he is the First man to Photograph a selfie,it is well known here. August 2019
Wow, I legit did not know that there was a picture of Andrew Jackson. Amazing.
There's several. This was just a sampling. A fierce looking cantankerous old man, fitting exactly his historical reputation.
This was a fascinating journey through history. Thanks for creating and posting it.
I'm a photography geek sort of. I always love taking pictures of moments in nature or people and such. It's just such a pretty thing. It's interesting to see what people have taken before me. Crazy to think these were taken around the times of my great great grandparents or possibly even my great great great grandparents. The French one is cool because some of my family would have been there at the time.
Well you will be good for this question..... Someone gave me a camera from 1925 but it doesn't work will it cost alot to restore and does it hold value
The first lady to be photographed looked stunning, glad they chose a good looking model..
Hey don't knock it till you try it.
Still better quality than the cameras used to film Paranormal stuff
Monty Python's flying circusssss!
And now for something completely different. IT'S ...
Darn those bloody Brits! I can't watch this otherwise interesting video without expecting a big FOOT to come down smooshing everything!
Amazing. A world long gone but by modern standards just 2, 3 lifetimes past...
Something about this makes me smile.
0:22 *To put into perspective how old this photo is, here are some things that were happening back then.*
1. This was taken less than 10 years after the American Revolution ended.
2. This was taken at least 40 years before the Victorian Times, back in the Georgian Times. That was back when women wore those huge wigs btw.
3. The French Revolution had only just started.
4. The slave trade was still alive and well back then.
5. That photo youre looking at is almost 300 years old
230 years old but ok
That last photo looked like a modern day picture and I didn't know they had scuba gear in the 1800s
Devin they did
Open-circuit-demand scuba is a 1943 invention by the Frenchmen Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
@@dead9247 @ they didnt , scuba, self contained underwater breathing apparatus ...................the diver in the photo had air pumped down to him via tubes, not " self contained " sorry
Actually, I hate to have to be this person, but the oldest portrait was by Robert Cornelius, not John Johnson.
Sorry did not see this when I said it was Robert Cornelius!
@@kirstymackenzie2437 ,I live in an area of Philadelphia, Pa. Called Wissinoming, I can walk to the Park that was once Part of the Estate of Robert Cornelius ( Wissinoming Park)
Wonderful and nice work of that time. And All the oldest photographers greatest. Rest in peace for All.
Absolutely fascinating" Much appreciation for making this video.