Meet Conrad Heyer, Born 1749: The Earliest Born Person Ever to Be Photographed -- DL Cade -- May 20, 2014 -- petapixel.com
he looks pissed off.
Easier to understand that statement than the headline.
Earliest known photo of a human.
http://yargb.blogspot.com/2011/06/earliest-know-photograph-of-person.html
He lived in the period that I would prefer to have lived in.
Old enough to experience the Revolutionary passions, and then the war, and out of it (or dead) before the the 1850s.
America’s greatest generations.
Along the same lines here is the first photo taken from space (1946, camera attached to a captured German V2 rocket) ...
I hate it when writers keep repeating info.
In this case, definitely happened with “crossing the Delaware”.
Anyway, very neat.
At 103 any patriot is allowed to be pissed, mad or not much to smile about. That’s a significant age to reach for his era.
My gosh, he must have crossed
The Delaware five
Times!!!
Very cool! Thanks for posting.
Yea but how old was he when he was photographed?
That is unbelievably cool.
On a similar note, there’s a YouTube video from the old “What’s My Line” show with a guest who was at the theater where Lincoln was shot and saw Booth jump down to the stage.
Looks like someone you definitely don’t mess with.
Months ago, someone posted a thread of old pictures of men who served in The Revolution.
They were mostly in their 90s and 100s.
It seems like the source was a newspaper in South Carolina, but it may have been some other.
I have a feeling that their dour expressions are because of old age aches and pains.
From the dailymail.com.uk:
Faces of the men who won America’s independence: Amazing early photos of heroes of the Revolutionary War in their old age
He had a dream the night before; and saw what Obama would one day do to his nation.
FYI
I think there was a thread with a link to photos of revolutionary war vets, posted since I signed up.
bttt - Amazing.
Bflr