27 Jun 2020

VERY old photo - NOT amateur radio

This photo first appeared on my blog in 2010. It shows a man who is supposed to have been been born in 1746!

If correct, this must be one of the earliest photos of a human being ever. This is well before the French Revolution, when the USA colonies were still "owned"  by Great Britain and more than a century before the American Civil War.

I have no idea where this first appeared. As I recall, the first photos were taken in the late 1830s or early 1840s.
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1 comment:

  1. MarkDSun Jun 28, 06:13:00 am GMT+1

    Roger
    Using Google image search I found it on this web site http://www.borguez.com/inmaraviglia/page/2/
    Apparently it was developed in the USA in 1848 and he is supposed to be 102 years old at the time of the photograph, so born in 1746.
    73
    Mark VK6WV

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