The Earliest Photographs of the United States of America: Part 1 (1840's)
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Published 2014-03-29
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Photography was introduced to the world in 1839 in France by Louis Daguerre and quickly spread throughout Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world. Surviving photographs taken of human subjects outside over the next decade in the United States in the 1840's are some of the most scarce in existence. This video attempts to assemble the largest collection of such photos taken between 1842 and the early 1850's.These are all either daguerreotypes or calotype salted paper prints.
Chestnut and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia, by George Read, 1842: www.geh.org/fm/mismis/htmlsrc2...
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, possibly by Mathew Brady, 1843.
Chestnut Street shops, Philadelphia, by William G. Mason, 1843: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004...
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, by William G. Mason, 1843: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004...
Girard Bank, Nativist Riots, Philadelphia, by W. & F. Langenheim, 1844: explorepahistory.com/displayim...
Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hays, Camp Salubrity, Louisiana, 1845: www.vahistorical.org/collectio...
Grist mill, c. 1845: www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/a...
"Plymouth and Kingston Express Wagon," Massachusetts, c. 1846.
Mexican-American War parade, Dayton, Ohio, c. 1846.
Mexican-American War parade, Exeter New Hampshire, c. 1846.
Mexican American War funeral, Wilmington, North Carolina, c. 1848: susan747.wordpress.com/2010/07...
Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, c. 1846: www.librarycompany.org/catchin...
Arch and 8th Streets, Philadelphia, 1847: libwww.freelibrary.org/diglib/...
Tom Thumb's visit, St. Louis, by Thomas Easterly, 1848: collections.mohistory.org/reso...
California pioneers in Columbus, Ohio, 1849: www.flickr.com/photos/cbustap...
Union Fire Company firefighters, St. Louis, by Thomas Easterly, 1848: collections.mohistory.org/reso...
Cincinnati riverfront view, by Charles Fontayne and William Porter, 1848: 1848.cincinnatilibrary.org/sho...
Montgomery County Courthouse, Dayton, Ohio, 1848.
Confectionery shop, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849: www.flickr.com/photos/cbustape...
California pioneers in Columbus, Ohio, 1849: www.flickr.com/photos/cbustap...
Carysfort Reef Florida lighthouse in Philadelphia, by Frederick and William Langenheim 1849: www.christies.com/lotfinder/ph...
Canal locks under construction, c. 1849: www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/a...
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African American man and steer, c. 1850: www.germainewilliams.com/2013/...
Man on horse-drawn buggy with dog, c. 1849.
American Hotel fire aftermath, Buffalo, New York, 1850.
Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York, by Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 1850: www.syracuse.com/news/index.ss...
A busy Montgomery Street, San Francisco, by Frederick Coombs, 1850.
General Tom Thumb and his miniature carriage. (Correction: Tom Thumb is not in the photograph and it was actually taken sometime in the 1850's as it is an ambrotype.)
A group of men posing on a sidewalk, c. 1850.
Ohio Star newspaper buggy, Ravenna, Ohio, c. 1850: www.flickr.com/photos/cbustape...
Stagecoach service between Rome and Hamilton, New York, c. 1850.
Steam locomotive Tioga, Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, c. 1850: explorepahistory.com/displayim...
Man with an elephant, by Thomas Easterly, c. 1850: artblart.com/tag/daguerreotypi...
Horse-drawn sleigh, c. 1850.
Men posing with a prized bull, c. 1850: www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/a...
College students portrait, Bethany College, West Virginia, c. 1850: www.finedags.com/archives/salo...
School group portrait, c. 1850.
Peddler's wagon, c. 1850.
A family in Cincinnati, by Charles Fontayne and William Porter, c. 1850.
People on a bridge over the Seneca River, Seneca Falls, New York c. 1850: americanart.si.edu/helios/amer...
Four men and a dog, c. 1850.
Union Hotel under construction, San Francisco, c. 1850: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/...
Independence Square entrance, Philadelphia, c. 1850: Library of Congress
Customs House, Philadelphia, by Frederick Langenheim, c. 1850:
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All Comments (21)
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Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-yXjyISkc The earliest 3D photos of the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KLv-wHD5a8
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Black and white photos make the past look dreary but the reality is that it was just as colorful as it is today. Trees were green, the sky was blue, and tomatoes were red.
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in a time when taking a photograph was an event.
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When I was a kid in the 1970's, I bought a book published in 1816, at a flea market. Inside one of the pages, I found part of a very ancient ticket stub to a 'dance' ball with a tiny green fragment of a stenciled/printed woman in a huge hoop skirt.
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Love photos like this. I look at the people and wonder what their lives were like and if their descendants are alive and maybe watching the photos and don't even know that they are related to them. It is hard to imagine that this took place some 15 years before the US civil war (give or take) Really fascinating.
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The oldest American photograph taken was in 1839.
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the frikkin captions stays on longer than the pics!!
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Is it ok if I have more than 2 seconds to look at the photo?
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Would love to time travel.....Just imagine......
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Wonderful content. I love this. Would it be possible to leave the photos up for a few seconds longer so we could enjoy them properly😊
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This is really awsome stuff! Some of these photos are crystal clear. And some were taken only a few years after the Alamo! Unbeliveable!
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The descriptions are up forever, but the actual pictures no more then 1 second. Crazy!!
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If time travel was ever discovered, I always thought it’d be interesting to go back 200 years and grab a couple of my great grandparents and bring them back to now and give them a tour. Their heads would probably explode.
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Kinda even more interesting how you can actually see bit of color in these photos.
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Great photos, many of where I live. One suggestion, slow down the time between photos. I wanted to view details, but 5 seconds was frustrating. Thanks again.
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Some Bowhead whales from that time are still alive and kicking.
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Wow. This is now one of my favorite videos ever. Thank you for keeping history alive.
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One man watching early American photographs uploaded to YouTube and enjoying the experience! (2016)
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These photos are really fabulous! This set has been posted for quite a while, but I just found it. Glad I did!
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Great photographs! But I do wish the images were shown longer, so we could check them out without having to pause. And maybe some music from that time period, like Steven Foster would be cool!
