The Earliest Born Person Ever Photographed

There are a lot of uncertainties and contradictory information about these people, so take what I said here with a grain of salt. For example I nearly included Joseph Souberbielle, a surgeon who played a part in the French revolution, before realizing that the man in the photo had probably been erroneously identified as him. He was a close friend of Robespierre and was charged with keeping Marie Antoinette alive for the duration of her trial. Apparently he started every day by singing a verse of the Marseillaise instead of saying a morning prayer.

I also forgot to say that Conrad Heyer is listed by some sources to have been born in 1753, not 1749. He is also claimed to have once been a bodyguard of George Washington.

There is a game show from the 1950's I believe that asked participants to guess who the person was. He ended up being this old man that was present at the Lincoln assassination as a young boy he remembered watching John wilke booth jump from the balcony breaking his leg. It was incredible seeing this man recorded on a game show and to be a witness to such a massive piece of history!

An American civil veterans wife died in 2012.
She married him at 17 when he was in his 90s. Edit: it wasn't seedy, it was of convenience

I'm 102 and I have memories of my great grandfather, he was born in 1783

The first photo ……The Shroud of Turin . It’s a DaVinci self portrait

WoW .. Mary was around during the French Revolution?

A Reader's Digest story in the 1990s was authored by a man who, as young child, recalled shaking the hand of a very old man who, when five years old, shook Abe Lincoln's hand not long before the assassination.

Its crazy how these comments are talking about great grandparents born in the late 1700s and idek my grandparent's 😂

This reminds me of seeing a photograph of Mozart's Wife earlier this year !!! I was amazed and sceptical - till realising that the photo was from 1842 and she was 80 years old (?). It brought the distant past into the not-so-distant past !

To be a slave and work until you’re 80 is horrendous. His revenge was he lived another 35 years under the masters care

My dads parents were born in 1897 and 1918 my grandmother(born 1918) father was born in 1876 thats only 4 generations back. Things didnt really happen that long ago in context (my grandmothers maiden name was cromwell i am the lord protectors 8th great grandchild with the oldest boy in the family having the name oliver (currently my fathers older half brother oliver isaiah cromwell)

Oh wow, being from Lexington MA and living still here, it’s crazy to see those old pics and seeing the Monroe tavern from back in the day

Interesting

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The earliest born person ever photographed was whoever the guy was who appeared on the Turin shroud. It is a primitive photographic negative made about a thousand years ago, probably made using a camera obscura combined with cloth soaked in iron salts to generate the image.

I took that picture of her.

The older you get the more you realize 100 years isn't that long a time at all.

Keep in mind- the 10th President of the US- John Tyler who served from 1841-1845 has a GRANDSON (not great grandson but GRANDSON) who is still alive...I believe living in VA. HE is old (in his late 90s) but still living.

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It's wonderful reading the comments and how many of us have links to what normally seems like the distant past. In looking up my relatives on Ancestry, I found my 3 or 4x great-grandparents. The photo was taken in the 1880s and they were approximately 80 years old so I was looking at blood kin born around 1800, over 200 years ago!❤ Astounding!

My great-grandparents were born in the late 1880s and both lived to almost a hundred so I remember them both well.

Magdalene College is pronounced Maudlin College. I know, I live in Cambridge UK.

My best friend is a photographer. Besides his main job, he often spends his weekends wandering around taking photos. He has a deep passion for it.

When you think that Pres. John Tyler, born in 1790, who served in 1840,( 20 years
before Abraham Lincoln), currently has a living 95 year old grandson, we can
see how short the centuries are!

Very difficult to understand what the narrator is saying.

John Quincy Adams was eyewitness to the Battle of Bunker Hill.He was photographed before he died.

Sublime...

So the one who spoke to someone who had interacted with someone from the 1600s had a direct link to someone who had engaged with someone who might have crossed the path at a very young age with someone who breathed air while Elizabeth 1 was still taking oxygen into her lungs

a friend of mine had a great-grandfather who had shown him a school photo of him from 9th grade
and hitler was in his class

Old people are basically time capsules. Talk to your grandparents, because even if the some of the stuff they say sounds batshit insane, they might be telling the truth.

How about earliest born on video?

Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a woman in her nineties who told me that when she was a young woman, she rode in a Model T with a friend who inherited it from her brother who died during WWII.

When you’re off to see a broad at 7, but decided to start a revolution at 5🤣

Fascinating history, thanks! As one, I was happy it included so many Americans, very interesting. I was wondering if Joe Biden would be in this, lol.

Because of paintings, I always had this vision of the people from the XVIIIth century and earlier looking different than today's people. Being able to see people from those times photographed shakes my understanding of reality, because if they were dressed in modern clothes, I wouldn't have bat an eye if I saw them on the street

How interesting! A good subject for those who are fascinated by early lives, events and documents, like I am!

WE ARE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS! You aren't obligated to believe, but I'm obligated to tell you: Jesus is coming back, Amen if you believe!

My great-grandmother was born in 1900. We all knew she had an older sister, of course, but one day, child me asked her if she wished she'd had brothers. And that day I learned she'd had three brothers. The Great War had taken them, just like it had taken three of her husband's siblings. After that, I never looked the same way at the many monuments to the dead that are present in every town and village here in France.

That made me think that the oldest verified gentleman was still on earth when Bach and Handel were alive!

Fantastic! What a great minidoc!

Fuck American revolution. I am a royalist.

Could you imagine someone who was born in the 20th century being recorded or "digitized" by some future technology that was developed in the late 21st century?

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I was born in 1952 in Stratford-u-Aven, England, and I can remember my grandfather (who raised me as my father died in a mining accident) discussing his grandfathers memories - and that HIS grandfather (so x4 greats') was a French immigrant who started as a pantomime actor that worked with William Shakespeare. His name was Alfons Huhr

My great great grandmothers father and grandfather served making germany in 1871.
She would pass away in 2003 at 112 years old.
I miss her

Hearing these people's ages, they had REAL FOOD with no preservatives.

My dads dad, his family in the late 1800s, fought with famous Canadian, Louis riel. He was 1 of the 200 people that fought with him. Im friends with a guy who may be potentially related with him. I need too talk more about it though.

One of the most popular in social media is Hannah Stilley Gorby. Born 1746. Photographed at 94 years old in 1840.