American Daguerreotype Portraits From the 1840's

YouTube ^ | 03-19-2016 | Chubachus

[NRx]

Faces from the land of long ago.

[NRx]

This person's youtube channel is full of similar images from the distant past.

[laweeks]

Brian Wilson took all those photos, ya’ know.

[Bobalu]

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Daguerreotype&go=Search&qs=ds&form=QBILPG

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Red Badger]

Of the Beach Boys?..............

[freepertoo]

Just like us.

[BenLurkin]

Could have been Tom Brady...

[laweeks]

Of the Beach Boys?..............

You read that wrong . . . Brian Wilson is supposed to be Brian Williams . . . using Common Core Reading Materials.

[Bobalu]

While searching bing for Daguerreotypes, at first quick glance, I thought this was Steve Wozniac

[pbear8]

Brian Wilson took all those photos

Actually it was Keith Richards.

[Red Badger]

The portrait of the ‘unknown family’ near the end was a bit weird. The one ‘female’, second from the right looked like a guy in a dress...................

[Larry Lucido]

Lemuel Cook, 1759-1866, could very well have known a Civil War veteran, who could very well have known a WWII veteran, who could very well survive today.

[CMSMC]

I would expect “sleeping” child with the parents early in the video is probably a corpse. Such pictures were quite common.

[Big Red Badger]

Fascinating!
Thanks.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I couldn’t find Ruth Bader Ginsburg . . .

[Bon mots]

I couldn’t find Ruth Bader Ginsburg . . .

[Bon mots]

[Verginius Rufus]

My grandfather's grandfather was born in 1780--he was three years old when the Revolutionary War ended. I knew my grandfather but he didn't know his grandfather, who died before he was born.

The last Civil War veteran died in the 1950s so undoubtedly many World War II veterans knew a Civil War veteran. When I was a child I knew an old woman who was born in February 1869--if Lincoln had not been assassinated he would still have been President when she was born.

[Oatka]

Back in the ‘70s I worked with a little old lady who said she came to California via Cape Horn in a sailing ship. I was in awe of the history that stood before me.

[Verginius Rufus]

I had a great-aunt who was born on the day Jefferson Davis died (Dec. 6, 1889) and died in Dec. 1976. I met her once a few years before she died. When she was young she knew her two grandfathers. The paternal grandfather, born in 1806, had been a Confederate soldier (and prisoner of war). The maternal grandfather, born in 1820, had been a Union soldier (but his brother was a Confederate). Both grandfathers were born in Virginia but the maternal grandfather had lived in Missouri since 1831. Either one in theory could have met Thomas Jefferson but they did not live in the vicinity of Charlottesville so they never would have.