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Silver used in photography.....brought us this historic image.

MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
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Earliest known photo image of a person (actually two) in 1838 Paris.

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    One of the dots at top left is Renman flying in a load of rivets from Cologne for an early prototype of the Statue of Liberty!


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting picture...thanks, Cheers, RickO
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,634 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty good resolution! Factory smoke in the background. Sidewalks. Rainguards on smokestacks. Drain tiles and gutters. Cobblestones. Looks pretty modern. Thanks for the post!
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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Must have looked about the same 50 years earlier when Ben Franking was in residence.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,916 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Must have looked about the same 50 years earlier when Ben Franking was in residence. >>



    Who was Ben Franking?image

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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent site to view some very old B&W photography

    A former "old school" photojournalist myself, this is one of my favorite historical B&W pix. A group of British kids taking shelter during the German bombing raids over London:

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  • rawteam1rawteam1 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>Must have looked about the same 50 years earlier when Ben Franking was in residence. >>



    Who was Ben Franking?image >>


    Wasn't he the master coin minter?, hence the franc was born... Lol...
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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Must have looked about the same 50 years earlier when Ben Franking was in residence. >>



    Creator of the Franking privilege.....look it up!





    Damn----how did I mangle Franklin like that..... image
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is the first know photograph, taken from a window in 1826 or 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, much enhanced. (I saw the original at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas earlier this year. Amazing!)

    Mglicker: if you only knew how many times my first-version posts included wild misspellings like that... image We just get in a hurry....

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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 6,976 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder what the earliest photo of a coin looked like.

    My Adolph A. Weinman signature :)

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