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Lord Marcovan Original500© Member  Robertson Shinnick
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View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826. The first known photograph.  Self-portrait by Robert Cornelius, 1839. The first known photographic portrait of a person.  A view of Angoulême, France, in 1877, by Louis Ducos du Hauron, a French pioneer of color photography. This isn't hand-tinted- it's an actual color photograph. If you had asked me to guess when the first color photograph was taken, I would've guessed sometime in the late 1920s or so!  Frozen little slices of time like this fascinate me. To me, these are the next best thing to having a time machine. (Old photos like this, and a metal detector to find buried relics and coins that people dropped centuries ago).
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newbiecollector Pioneer100© Member  You can't fake real
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  Great photos Rob. Thanks
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Lord Marcovan Original500© Member Robertson Shinnick
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Wouldn't it be cool if they invented some sort of remote-viewing camera that could take videos of the past? I mean, you could program in the date (year, month, day, hour, minute, etc) and point the camera at a spot, and it would show you a picture or video of that exact spot a hundred, or two hundred years earlier? You could do like time-lapse movies of one particular spot, with buildings crumbling away and new ones being built, then demolished, and so on... To me, that would be about as good as going there. If I didn't have a time machine for actual travel, then at least a camera that took pictures of the past would be awesome. I remember watching an episode of "The Twilight Zone" once, where a guy had a camera that took pictures 20 or 30 minutes in the future. That could be handy, but I would wanna see a century or two (or ten) into the past!
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24HourNut Administrator  Body pillows rock!
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Rob, I am with you on this 100% - I share the fascination and appreciation. It's like getting a real view of the past we almost shouldn't be allowed to see. 1826 is damn old for a photo!!
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Lord Marcovan Original500© Member Robertson Shinnick
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Y'know what else makes that 1826 photo even cooler? The house, room, and window from which the picture were taken still exist! Here is a link to a video about the restoration of the house. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcTHpuqQIs
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24HourNut Administrator Body pillows rock!
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Awesome, thanks Rob. I am watching the video now.
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shirohniichan Original500© Member  Obscurius per obscurum
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Good topic. When I was a kid the local library had a mural running along the top of the wall in the kids' section. It showed a house and the area around it over a 100+ year period (first the house with a wagon road in front of it, then the house with a gravel road and a couple more houses, and so on). I'd love to know what the castle near my apartment in Japan used to look like. The oldest picture of it is a painting made 200 years after it was completely destroyed, and the picture didn't look anything like the original castle. I figured that out by walking the site and examining the few remains. I can imagine a little of what it looked like based on what is known of 16th century construction techniques, unearthed roof tiles, and descriptions on other castles left by Jesuit missionaries, etc. I'm even big on photos showing landscape changes over the past 100 years.
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Shiro, was it you that was able to trace their family back real far, and even had a photo? I thought I remember that from the old CU open forum.
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Aethelred Pioneer100© Member  Ye Olde Dead King
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I could almost see myself collecting old photographs. I had an 1860s era photo of a man in a uniform which I sold on eBay a few years ago, I almost kept that one. Just what I need, yet another hobby!
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Lord Marcovan Original500© Member Robertson Shinnick
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I'm like you... I could almost see myself collecting old daguerreotypes and tintypes. Not quite, but almost. I do have an old Civil War-era tintype of three women in period dress. Many people looked different back then- it wasn't just the clothes and hairstyles. I suspect nutrition and so on had something to do with it. People just looked... different. Robert Cornelius, in the 1839 self-portrait above, actually looks relatively "normal" by our 21st century standards, but some folks were really strange looking.
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Lord Marcovan wrote: I'm like you... I could almost see myself collecting old daguerreotypes and tintypes. Not quite, but almost. I do have an old Civil War-era tintype of three women in period dress. I know what you mean. And you are right, I felt that when I first saw the photo above - he could almost fit in today exactly as is. His face said "modern" to me, too.
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Aethelred Pioneer100© Member Ye Olde Dead King
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but some folks were really strange looking You don't get out enough, many people are really strange looking NOW! We like to call them "the ugly." 
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shirohniichan Original500© Member Obscurius per obscurum
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24HourNut wrote: Shiro, was it you that was able to trace their family back real far, and even had a photo? I thought I remember that from the old CU open forum. I have wedding photos of my great-great-great grandfather and grandmother from around 1860. I also have photos of their parents taken around the same time. The oldest ancestor I have a photo of was born in 1792, and he does have an "old" look about him. He looks like an engraving from a Dickens novel. Perhaps it would be better to say he has an "old world" look about him. My great-great-great-great grandmother would probably fit in well in the modern UK. I found it odd it was so easy to see my resemblance to my great-great-great grandfather since we are separated by so much time and genetic influences. I wish I could say I had Civil War era photos of ancestors in uniform, but that side of the family was made up of Quakers. They did have interesting stories about helping slaves escape and living in sod houses on the Kansas prairie, but no war stories.
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shirohniichan wrote: 24HourNut wrote:Shiro, was it you that was able to trace their family back real far, and even had a photo? I thought I remember that from the old CU open forum. Love it .. wish I had old stuff like that too.
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