Wed Apr 24, 2019, 08:28 PM

rurallib (52,524 posts)

Inspired by another thread, I stumbled on the World's Oldest Photographs

kind of boggles the mind to see how old yet recent they are.
Stick around for the early color photos at the end.

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Inspired by another thread, I stumbled on the World's Oldest Photographs (Original post)	rurallib	Apr 2019	OP
Really cool. Thanks. The old marching band music is good too.	Hoyt	Apr 2019	#1
Nice.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Apr 2019	#2
That was cool! Thanks!	2naSalit	Apr 2019	#3
Wow! Scottish photographer James Clerk Maxwell	CloudWatcher	Apr 2019	#4
I thought that was the same guy	rurallib	Apr 2019	#6
Enjoyed that. Thank you.	mountain grammy	Apr 2019	#5
am I the only one waiting for a cartoon foot appear squashing everything?	mucifer	Apr 2019	#7
Why yes	lillypaddle	Apr 2019	#8
explanation:	mucifer	Apr 2019	#9
Funny how some things will. trigger an automatic memory	rurallib	Apr 2019	#10
LOL	lillypaddle	Apr 2019	#13
Nope I didn't. The internet these things can be confusing	mucifer	Apr 2019	#15
Nope nt	drmeow	Apr 2019	#11
I listened to the music and now I'm ready for something competely different.	marble falls	Apr 2019	#12
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Apr 2019	#14
I love old things!Thanks!❤	Karadeniz	Apr 2019	#16
The picture of Hannah Stilleby Gorby reminds me of one of my ancestresses	csziggy	Apr 2019	#17
Very interesting. Thank you.	marybourg	Apr 2019	#21
that was really great, thanks! nt	steve2470	Apr 2019	#18
Fascinating. Thank you for this gem.	ancianita	Apr 2019	#19
Wonderful,	homegirl	Apr 2019	#20
Let me	BigOleDummy	Apr 2019	#22

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 08:56 PM

Hoyt (40,597 posts)

1. Really cool. Thanks. The old marching band music is good too.

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 09:59 PM

PoindexterOglethorpe (11,534 posts)

2. Nice.

Thanks for posting this.

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 10:15 PM

2naSalit (31,520 posts)

3. That was cool! Thanks!

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 10:37 PM

CloudWatcher (402 posts)

4. Wow! Scottish photographer James Clerk Maxwell

Funny that James Clerk Maxwell is described as a Scottish Photographer. While that's very true, he's kind of known more for some equations he came up with

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 06:42 AM

rurallib (52,524 posts)

6. I thought that was the same guy

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Wed Apr 24, 2019, 11:31 PM

mountain grammy (20,820 posts)

5. Enjoyed that. Thank you.

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 08:49 AM

mucifer (15,367 posts)

7. am I the only one waiting for a cartoon foot appear squashing everything?

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 09:51 AM

lillypaddle (7,166 posts)

8. Why yes

I think you are.

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 09:54 AM

mucifer (15,367 posts)

9. explanation:

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 11:16 AM

rurallib (52,524 posts)

10. Funny how some things will. trigger an automatic memory

I can't hear the name "Galileo" without starting to sing Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 01:27 PM

lillypaddle (7,166 posts)

13. LOL

I hope you know that I said that in jest.

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 03:10 PM

mucifer (15,367 posts)

15. Nope I didn't. The internet these things can be confusing

:wave:

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 01:01 PM

drmeow (3,387 posts)

11. Nope nt

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 01:06 PM

marble falls (25,789 posts)

12. I listened to the music and now I'm ready for something competely different.

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 04:21 PM

Karadeniz (4,397 posts)

16. I love old things!Thanks!❤

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 04:30 PM

csziggy (27,936 posts)

17. The picture of Hannah Stilleby Gorby reminds me of one of my ancestresses

My grandmother had a set of photos on a wall in her bedroom that she called "The Wall of Female Ancestors." The earliest photo was of Esther Bradley Bradley.

Here is what my grandmother had to say about Esther:

The portrait of my great-great-great-grandmother, Esther Bradley Bradley is
a photograph of a daguerreotype. Where the original daguerreotype is now I do not
know. Perhaps some one in the Bradley family owns it. But my grandmother
borrowed it many years ago and had the photographic reproduction made. Esther
Bradley, mother of Esther Bradley Pomeroy, was born in Hamden, Conn., Feb. 23,
1765, married Jabez Bradley there, Sept. 21, 1785, went with him to Lee, Mass. In
1788, and thence to Northville, N.Y., Feb. 1794. In an old scrap book is preserved a
clipping from the Northville paper of June 15, 1859, containing her obituary, part of
which reads as follows:

“Coming thus early to this county, she shared
largely the trials and hardships of the pioneers of
civilization. Her journey here was performed in the
winter season, with sled and oxen, over a rough, and
to some extent unbeaten road. Accompanied by her
husband and four children, after three full weeks, she
arrived at her log-cabin home. Though from childhood
she had a delicate constitution, still her energy of
character and perseverance led her to regard as trivial
obstacles that would have daunted and disheartened a
less noble and courageous spirit...”

The photograph shows an old lady in a black silk gown with white collar. She
wears a close-fitting white bonnet, such as the custom for elderly women in those
days, and her eyes gaze at the world though spectacles, calmly and with strength and
serenity. Her features have been handed down to her granddaughter, Julia Pomeroy,
her great-granddaughter, Harriet Milliken, and to her great-great-granddaughter,
Edith Hughitt. Studying her picture I think of how that delicately nurtured girl saw
the great War of the Revolution bring into being the little new country that has since
grown so great; followed her husband to a wild and far-distant country; and bore ten
children, surviving six of them and her husband.

Family tradition goes that when Jabez Bradley died in 1817, Esther took her
eldest son during the slack winter season, and drove an ox-team and sledge all the
way back to Connecticut, to bring back the tombstone that marks his grave in the
Kings Ferry cemetery. She lived to her eighty-sixth year, loved and honored and a
power for good in her community. She lies in the cemetery at Kings Ferry, N.Y. her
tombstone bearing this simple inscription: