Earliest Born Photographed Person
score:11
From Wikipedia's reference desk (originally discussing moving images):
On the German wikipedia, we had a fascinating discussion about the earliest born person of whom a photograph exists. We managed to go back to a birth date of around 1746
Skimming the German discussion, it seems the winner there was Hannah Stilley Gorbey, an elderly American lady photographed circa 1840, born 1746. There is also this image of one Baltus Stone recorded as born 1747; not much information, but some more details here.
It's quite possible that someone else slightly older was photographed, but unlikely you'd get back before about 1740 - this would put them at over 100 when the first daguerrotypes were being made.
For moving images, the answer seems to be probably Pope Leo XIII (born 1810, filmed 1898), with the tantalizing suggestion that Vasily Goncharov's film 1812 (made 1912) contained two people aged over 110. This is possible, but seems very unlikely - people of this age have been recorded, but very rarely.
Upvote:2
I'm not sure anyone knows for sure, but the prime contenders seem to be this landscape with a man getting a shoe shine in the background from 1838 and this self portrait of Robert Cornelius from 1839.
More post
- 📝 What was the timetable for Germany's Invasion of the Low Countries (Fall Gelb) in WW2?
- 📝 Were the societies envisioned in the Dharmasastras ever reflective of reality?
- 📝 Help for identifying a shell
- 📝 What was the staple food of the natives of South East Asia before rice?
- 📝 What do these lines on the origins of Hindu/Muslim communal consciousness mean?
- 📝 Did Archimedes spend time in Alexandria, Egypt?
- 📝 Why did former warfare so focused on capturing fortifications persist till modern times?
- 📝 What metallurgy advancement allowed the transition from mail hauberk to plate armor?
- 📝 Why didn't Anne Boleyn consent to divorce?
- 📝 What evidence is there relating to Matilda of Scotland as a wife (to Henry I) and mother (to Empress Matilda and William the Adelin)?
- 📝 US Army stations in France during World war 2
- 📝 Were certain soldiers considered to be neutral by both sides?
- 📝 Were there attempts to rename the French language Prussian order Pour le Mérite, why was it never Germanised?
- 📝 How were the cities of Milan and Bruges spared by the Black Death?
- 📝 In the "Immigrationist theory" of Romanians (Vlachs), how did they became the vast majority in Transylvania?
- 📝 How Successful Were the International Brigades?
- 📝 What cipher did Jefferson and Madison use to correspond?
- 📝 What is the relevance of the Confession of Augsburg to the Colloquy at Poissy?
- 📝 Why did Russia support Serbia in the years leading to World War I?
- 📝 Why did General Gürsel plea to forgive Adnan Menderes after overthrowing him in coup?
- 📝 In Mongolian Conquests, how did they screen the population for engineers?
- 📝 How long did it take to build siege engines in the middle ages?
- 📝 In WW2, which midget submarine program was the most successful?
- 📝 What were the post World War 2 effects on Germany?
- 📝 When did the US colonies/states stop making their own currencies?
- 📝 Hitler And Nazism - Did Hitler ever express remorse over killing?
- 📝 What made California Indian baskets so good?
- 📝 What is the significance of a battery charging hulk and how is it used?
- 📝 How did the white minority in South Africa see their situation in the apartheid times?
- 📝 Is this article on Nero even remotely accurate?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Earliest Born Photographed Person
- 📝 Earliest evidence of objects intended for future archaeologists?
- 📝 Who is the earliest recorded person?
- 📝 What is the earliest known account of the modern military salute?
- 📝 How many different countries could a person alive today have lived in without leaving their hometown?
- 📝 What is the earliest mention of space travel?
- 📝 Why did the person in charge of a principality not just declare themself king?
- 📝 Why were so many of the earliest banks founded by cloth merchants?
- 📝 What is the earliest evidence of contact between Ireland and Egypt?
- 📝 Was the "natural born citizen" requirement for the President inserted into the US Constitution by Alexander Hamilton's enemies?
- 📝 What is the earliest recorded female name in history?
- 📝 In medieval Europe, were children born in an annulled marriage automatically illegitimate?
- 📝 What is the earliest reference to "space aliens"?
- 📝 Would a common person in the 18th century have heard Mozart's music during his lifetime?
- 📝 Who is the latest famous person to have no known likeness?
- 📝 Which is the earliest surviving inscription of "SPQR"?
- 📝 What is the earliest reliably dated event exact to the year?
- 📝 Why did the states that were born out of the Louisiana purchase adopt a common law system, and not a civil law system?
- 📝 Who was the last person "Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered" under British jurisdiction?
- 📝 Who was the richest person in the world at the start and end of WW2?
- 📝 What was the perception of the average British person of the Boston Tea Party?
- 📝 Was Donald Knuth the first person to typeset a book using a computer?
- 📝 Could a person get from the outer districts of Vienna into the city center via the sewage system?
- 📝 What is the earliest mention of an estimate of 71% water (or 70.8%) / 29% land (or 29.2%)?
- 📝 Was Ford the only person who became a US president without winning an election?
- 📝 What was the earliest professional recording of "Happy Birthday to You"?
- 📝 How many acres per person were needed for the early American settlers vs. the native Americans?
- 📝 Were the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs ever discovered really found in Qustul in Ancient Nubia?
- 📝 Where can I find the earliest surviving versions of Herodotus's Histories?
- 📝 What surface area per person is required for hunter-gatherers?