World's Oldest Photographs

[SHELLHEAD1961]

@ maxpowers518...Also, shouldn't The description of the "Boulevard du Temple" picture be of TWO People.

[SHELLHEAD1961]

@ maxpowers518, is there any possiblility that Exist any, early photographs of Real Pirates who were alive in the late 1700's that lived to maybe the early 1840's. Pirates were all over the world back in the day.

[joelfwilson]

head on the left looks like a decapitated kids head next to a carving of an angel. 1:20

[annazt11]

Wow, I didnt know they took pictures so early! I like most pictures of people, the buildings looks very much the same!

[monsieurTriquet]

Maybe monsieur Huet who was employed at a Paris museum was the first person to be photographed. He knew Daguerre who took a picture of him already in 1837.

[darX3mn1a]

Anyone else find this stuff scary?

[therash09]

@darX3mn1a You're not normal.

[darX3mn1a]

@therash09 I knew it... 0.0

[sercanfreak1]

This amazes me because this is soo old adn these people were living their lives back then and not even thinking of the future and thinking they had all the time in the world and now its been almost 200 years. We think that too but time will pass by soo fast we will be like this to other people in like 200 years but this is puely amazing

[MJandST2926]

Old photos have always scared me so I don't know whether I should watch this and scare myself or not watch but be left with the curiosity.

[th3d3storoy3r]

What about the first mugshot

[johneymute]

even my b&w gameboy camera is able to shoot such quality pictures,but offcource what could i aspect from a photograph dating almost 300 years back in time.

this is just amezing.

[BroadwayJosh]

The first woman to be photographed, a Ms. Draper, was kinda hot, wasn't she?

[s0caltrukker]

@BroadwayJosh That's what I was thinking too.

[buttercremehonda]

William Henry Harrison: "I DIED IN THIRTY DAYS!!!!"

[panayi1954]

How much better is the quality of the russian photo... Why is that?

[cooledge47]

Great Video! Thank You!!

[hitlersucks101]

@ 1:59 you got the person wrong. his name is Robert Cornelius

[stuvu6896]

So there's a photograph of someone who fought alongside our first president! Really cool

[Onlymusical]

When Andrew Jackson looked at his photographs, he exclaimed, "I look like a monkey!"

[Onlymusical]

Who would've believed that there's a photograph of a guy who crossed the Delaware (on Xmas Eve) with George Washington.

[DeadBunny69]

Just kept waiting for the giant cartoon foot to come down.

[LyingSecret]

Great video!

I can't help but think I would purposely use new technology for taking the first ever picture/video/hologram or something really inappropriate like a naked woman or an erect penis, just so I could imagine the look on the faces of people in 200 years time, haha.

[fishyc150]

I know it's silly cos it's all so long gone but I'd love a time machine :-) Not to change the future or anything but just to see things for myself, hear voices dead for 1000 years or more... Hopefully avoiding the dinosaurs of course!!!

[youraverageuser]

love this history, now just look around & think what will people still be watching from today in 100 years from now? things that make you go hummm...

[blitzkrieg4334]

I love it! kinda creepy in a way though

[Renee5322]

I love history and old pictures! GREAT video!!!!

[The1985Channel]

@shelkamark1 Well said, it's just a pity more people are interested in watching stupid shit like Bruno Mars and LMFAO videos which will only be forgotten in about 10 years anyway.

[billyboyinbc]

Thanks. Great compilation.!

[Vampiric59]

that guy's name is john johnson? wow

[dillion3384]

Awesome, well done.

[taylor1654]

Isn't it amazing to think who the person was getting their shoes polished? Simply amazing..

[chuckles1357]

FANTASTIC JOB!!! Absolutely amazing, i enjoyed every bit of it!!! Keep putting out great work like this --

[jjobie]

"Monnnnnty Pythonnnnnn's Flyinnnnnnnnnng Cirrrrrrrrrcussss..." :P

[Sigurr0s]

Man, this is one of the greatest video I ever seen in Youtube. Thank you.

[tkoizumi]

this is absolutely fascinating stuff. i cant help but to wonder how would our future ancestor react to our photos. now with the HD quality, would they feel nostalgic like us?

[RJY4356]

Amazing historical collection. The man at 2:43 would have had to have ben 103 years old!!! Hopefully he shared his personal history of the Revolutionary War and being with the actual George Washignton to lots of people who wrote down his accounts of those events!

[TheBeepboop123]

If they had colour film as early as 1861, why didn't it catch on until the late 50's-early 60's?

[Professor6871]

@TheBeepboop123 I suppose colour film was very experimental. And any way many of those early photos purporting to be colour were coloured in after they were taken.

[LaszloBencze]

The photo of William Henry Harrison which I'd never seen before is absolutely first class, much better than the well known photo of John Quincy Adams.

[IanHunedoara8]

In those days color photo negatives were hand -tinted using vegetable dyes.

[kirkgreensr10]

This video is fake the white house didn't look like that until the 1900 and the capital building was built after 1855

[RJY4356]

@kirkgreensr10 The capital was constructed starting in 1793. They had the bicentennial in 1993 with the original cornerstone. But it was a work in progress and expansion until well into the 1800's.

[Carnosaurus1337]

Yeah, sure waste new evolutionary technology on a FUCKING LEAF!

[mcmillard50]

A truly remarkable collection but some recognition of the photographers and depiction of methods would have been helpful.

[MrCrusader363]

All these great inventions are made by whitemen..We should celebrate this.

[marcxopoco]

Amazing.

Thank you, maxpowers.

[Jaydenfat2]

Dorothy Draper is a hottie

[JSDsChannel]

@Jaydenfat2

 W-A-S

[jonbakeruuutube]

that was amazing, especially the colour photos - truly arresting

[JesseAnneDesigns]

Wonderful video! Thanks for putting this together! That picture of John Q. Adams has always scared me a bit...looks like someone from an Edgar Allen Poe story.

[Legometallica09]

@JesseAnneDesigns the first andrew jackson one scared me to death

[JesseAnneDesigns]

@Legometallica09 Andrew Jackson is scary in general...

[Agonar81]

@Legometallica09 so you're a literal ghostwriter

[FlowerPot9198]

fascinating!

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

the lady born in the 1740s could have remembered meeting very old people when she was a little girl who were born in the 1650s (30 years after Shakespeare and just after the English Civil War!) and some of those could have remembered people born in the 1550s/1560s!

[GordDunker]

@LondonAcidHouse1988 I think about that sort of thing a lot!

[johnson1095]

@LondonAcidHouse1988

I think everybody should take the time to talk to their elders since they only have a finite amount of time on Earth.

[sisalrug]

@johnson1095 And when they talk to the elders it's probably good they don't mention that part.

[SHELLHEAD1961]

@LondonAcidHouse1988 Yeah it's weird isn't it !....one of.my Grandfathers who was born in 1888 actually knew Living Civil War Veterns when he was a young man and my father was told by Him that He, my father, had met a few of them when he was about 5 years old in the mid 20's

[SHELLHEAD1961]

@LondonAcidHouse1988 ....but by then, in the 20's, any living Civil War Vets were very old.

[SHELLHEAD1961]

@LondonAcidHouse1988 ...my grandfather was a WW-1 veteran and my father a WW-2 veteran.

[bozzy446]

Not John Johnson his name is Robert Cornelius

[unclejuniorsoprano]

Wonderful video of some of the world's most precious photographs. Amazing. Thanks for posting. Very nicely done.

[FrFrankiejr]

Absolutely magical.

[JDsizzlle]

i thought it was very interesting

[Dantesierra]

What's the name of the song??

[deltaleader37]

What about thomas edison

[SymphonyOfSword2Swan]

Scientists did find a way to time travel. it is impossible though!! :( I want to give it a shot, but I'm not sure where to start to begin with.

[jayramzbee]

I like this video and you picked the perfect song for it too.

[TheRegart]

John Adams and Andrew Jackson were photographed?!

[C2Dlive]

Still better looking than my mobile phone cam

[mechster1]

I did the math, and that old lady who was born in the 1700s that had her photo taken in 1840 has living relatives today that can see their great-great-great-great-great-­great-great-great-great grandmother in a photo! Amazing.

[Leonorexplore]

Thanks for posting this incredible video. The pictures are awesome!

[freoltic]

the very first portrait photo was taken in 1837 by Mr Daguerre a collaborator of Nicephore Niepce. and he take Mr Huet a painter

[acerb45666555]

3:01..Harrison. hes the pig that ruined Tecumsehs world! a very long sad story. (anyone from Ohio should know the states awful war ravaged history. Ohio was like Aghanistan once!! ever tree hid death!

[acerb45666555]

there are two photos in the USA archives. both taken around 1837-1840? one is of vary derpessed sullen Pawnee leader, one is a very pissed off Sauk and Fox warrior! his face is very angry. (he probably wanted to kill everyone in that studio! and considering the times in old USA, i dont blame him!)

[GuyWithBluePoop]

I wonder what woman was the first to let someone take pictures of her boobs

[swampzoid]

fascinating and beautiful

[msliberry]

This was terrific! Thanks for sharing.

[evsynator]

Excellent upload . Really enjoyed it .

[fubleduck]

You get a shoeshine & become the 1st human photographed. Sounds like Monte Python music.

[Avionttay]

This song sounds so much better than justin bieber's voice!

[jessebucasas1]

Monty Python's Flying Circus!  Awesome!

[ThePankate]

sweetness!

[gerjerry99]

it would be cool if there were photos of george washington and thomas jefferson

[gerjerry99]

how can will henry harrison's photo be colour? please tell me I want to know.

[gustgriswold]

@gerjerry99 It isn't really color, i just think the photo has gotten some green tinting over the years.

[emoboy724]

i thought cave men drew on walls, fuck this video.

[emoboy724]

@PSTroopers fucking little bitch, it was a joke, but a true one, stupid ass. go fuck yourself

[emoboy724]

Respond to this video... by the fucking way, i liked this video fuckface

[emoboy724]

@PSTroopers motherfucker, its a fucking screen name bitch, i'm not emo.however your profile pic is a fucker with blood coming out of his eyes, fuck you faggot, it was a joke fucker. GTFO

[nicolas6722]

Very very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[MYHEARTMUTMINI10]

amazing

[46FreddieMercury91]

this is awesome.what i don't get, a colour photo taken as early as 1877,yet the idea was taken up until many years later

[mcrettable]

i still don't even know how a camera works -.-

[Eraserheaddf]

The color photo from 1877, at the end, kind of messed with my mind for a second lol. I've never seen anything in color from anywhere near that time period. It makes it feel (in a way) not so distant.

[wicketr]

When was the "smile" first invented?

[M4rkh0lm]

@wicketr

Smile? Photography wasn't something to smile and joke about at that time, the pictures costed a fortune and they wanted to portray themselves as serious people.

[kylandpl]

@wicketr billions and trillions of years ago i would imagine. :)

[UnitedStateofMonkey]

@wicketr Cave man: What are you doing?

Cave man 2: Making my face go up, I think...

Cave man: Why?

Cave man 2: It just... feels right.

[OrlopRat42]

@wicketr 1897.

[hitlersucks101]

@wicketr well i dont know if anyone already told you, but they didnt smile in these kind of photographs because the exposure to take in could take 8 minutes or it could take an hour. nobody could really know.

[Lockbar]

I like your video very much. But I kept expecting a giant foot to come down and crush something.

[RammatRamzi]

@Lockbar

Ditto!



[thefogster61]

gotta love those 19th century babes...

[DIGITALSCREAMS]

Absolutely fascinating.

I have often wondered what it would like to watch moving images (film) dating from 1500's 1600's 1700's. The thing that excites me the most is that people in the future....like 500 years from now will be able to see us...in digital, crisp clarity going about our daily lives. Digital photography and film doesnt degrade like these 'old looking' pictures do. Can you imagine what it would be like to see a 500 year old photo in 'as new' condition/clarity?

Just AMAZING!

[hyperrion1990]

One of the most fascinating videos on Youtube. I really mean it!

Congrats for the video!

[TheSara90]

i think that the times when electricity and photographs were invented, where the times when "modern" were born. this video is really amazing.only 200 years later and we have star wars, 3d movies, i phone, facebook and youtube. i wonder what will be next technological breakthrough

[8Ho03EdONl1liL]

The earliest-born person was born 10 years before Mozart. It would be so cool to see a real picture of Mozart or Beethoven. Of course, it would be even better to have DVDs of them performing but I guess that's hoping for a bit much.

[DMJENI1]

these are so amazing! thanks for sharing them :)

[davidstighansen]

thank you!

[mininojuan]

wao que bien gracias por subir estas imágenes!

[tkoizumi]

omg... Conrad Heyer knew George Washington. That's amazing!!!

[BuIletForMyVaIentine]

Lol you meant 18th century.

[truthsofwolf]

At 2:00 - that's not John Johnson. That's Robert Cornelius, a Dutch daguerreotype photographer.

[marylandria]

Very cool!

[Kuhlfurst]

I remember seeing a photograph of a Grande Armee veteran somewhere in the internet. it was a colored photo, and total win. He was in his uniform, too bad it isn't included in this vid.

[AlienBeliever897]

5:14 is a painting. If it were real then the two children at the bottom would be blurred.

[Holowachuk]

do another one about the first screeshots. =)

[Holowachuk]

according to the first photographs i must admit that the elders were right.

they had more imagination in the old days.

[Shqyptaria2]

Why the photographic machine is invented so later?!.. After the European Renaissance,after Da Vinci,Michelangelo,Colombus,Ne­wton,Bonaparte,Bach,Mozart,Bee­thoven etc etc? !..What loss for the human history.....

[ChatDeMontmartre]

Brilliant, thank you so much for posting this !!

[happyuk06]

Great posting!

[SuperCrazyWaffles]

this is amazing stuff

[DBro65]

These photos are remakable.

[LilScotty32]

1:30 there is a ufo in the upper right corner

[TheWwweee]

@LilScotty32 nope

[adamdd09]

You must of worked long and hard to gather these photographs and get the info on them. I found your video very entertaining. Good job!

[DJVM95]

Who was the first black man to be photographed?

[suckmycod]

@DJVM95 If you look real hard you can actually see a nigger trimming the bushes of the White House! amazing

[karlalana]

interesting stuff, thanks for posting

[colmonhs]

There should be a prize for people like you.

Good job.

[locoparrandero2007]

hey! the "picture" in 2:58 is a portrait!

[Geense1963]

There is a fault in this clip. At 1.57 the man in the photo is Robert Cornelius, descendant of Dutch colonists who went to the USA. It was a picture of Robert in front of his shop. The year is correct: 1839

[childofdemonicwind24]

The quality of the last photograph was so perfect. i love seeing things like this.... It's remarkable to see how far we've come in the technology in such a relatively short space of time, and to have it put into perspective like that...

[cezza57]

Dorothy Catherine was quite a hottie in 1839!!

[libertatus]

The aerial photograph of Boston in 1858 is impressive.

[shortyblackwellll]

monty python flying circus theme music! gotta love it!

[xDONTxTREADxONxMEx]

How cool is this?

[rytufke2]

1:30 UFO in the foto top right ????????????? You see more clearly in full screen mode.

[SmilingProtoss]

@rytufke2 That was just dirt on the picture, or whatever it was, just look at the scratches on it as well.

[v1kt0r159]

song name? :D

serious

[astephens1963]

Can't speak for anyone else, but I really enjoyed this and got a little education in the process. Great Video

[zoomtokyo]

10 minute exposure?!? He should have used a faster film.

[balthiercollas]

3:33 is fricki´n Keith Richards!

[dmsaa]

you miss chopin

[pastorsteveadam]

maxpower, there is a photograph of a man in our local TA truckstop of a local man who fought in the Revolutionary war as well. The caption says his name was Nicholas Veeder and he was 99 when the photo was taken.

[r29341s]

they look like drawings



[supercorneybroadcast]

the horse "photo" is a drawing!

[itsrainingocelot]

@supercorneybroadcast It's a photograph of a drawing... it did say that in the video.

[AlienBeliever897]

Simply amazing...

It's a shame that some of the earliest photos haven't survived though. But who knows, mabye someday one will turn up in someone's attic :D

[ForensicsOnTheScene]

2:00 he's fucking hot.... I'd ride him.... This was back when men were still men.... (masculine) grrr... :(

[XxXsitarheroXxX]

oh...fuckin great...a leaf

[PhantasyGod]

Why does everything looks soo dam pretty in old days.

[Dancing88Mike]

I fapped to that Draper chick :D

[eLfuTaChee]

ako si czar mamatay ka na

[MrCombat1965]

The picture at 5:15 is a drawing. The two people at the bottom would be a blur if it was a photograph.

[mysteriousDSF]

2:27 this woman on the photo was born before USA was a country!

[winterstellar]

This is fantastic! That old lady was born more than 10 years before Mozart!

[NoGuff]

Extremely interesting. Thanks a lot for posting.

[VivienForum]

1:27 top left theres a UFO

[jonimeo]

@VivienForum The exposure time for that photo was 10 minutes. If it was a UFO, it would have to remain completely still for all 10 minutes of the exposure time in order to be visible. And even though I don't personally believe in UFOs, I'm pretty sure that one would not remain completely still like that for that long. I'm pretty sure it would, you know, move.

[VivienForum]

sorry i meant in 5:15 i see the people in the bottom are like drawings :]