Very old photos

[Nihil-Morari]

That first Russian colour picture is great, here it is for the lazy people:



early 1900's ladies and gentlemen!

[jasc15]

^^This made me search for the first color photograph.  Apparently, it was taken by James Clerk Maxwell and was of a tartan ribbon:



1861.    Maxwell

[Chino]

That first Russian colour picture is great, here it is for the lazy people:



early 1900's ladies and gentlemen!

Almost doesn't look real. That's incredible.

[Progmetty]

I got interested in 19th century audio and video recordings too, check this out:

This is believed to be the first audio recording of a human voice ever, it's of a woman humming something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YhTwR5qB3E

This is traffic crossing Leeds bridge in 1888!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7saH58usq4


More old photos with cool facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOkd8ObhN_M

NewYork in the late 1890's:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVsVM3mg_dE
Pics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Im133UxSII

[Rina]

This is really cool. Lately I've been trying out some photography, but this stuff is amazing.

[emindead]

I dunno when smiling was invented but certinly not in the 1800's as far as almost every photo I've seen is concerned heh

I was reading from this photographer's site earlier:

Photography was invented in France in the mid-1800s. Photographic materials were so slow (insensitive to light) that exposures took hours in direct sunlight.

You needed a tripod not just to hold the camera steady; you needed it to hold the camera while the photo exposed!

Not only did you need to leave the camera on a support, braces were used to hold people still for the long exposures! That's why people looked so dull and bored in old photos. People weren't bored in the old days, but that was the only expression they could hold steady for a sharp ten-minute exposure.

So the McFly photograph with the Doc was not possible?

[kirbywelch92]

I feel like I've seen this somewhere....

[Sigz]

 

[Rina]

I feel like I've seen this somewhere....

 

You win this thread. 

[Orbert]

Wow, some cool stuff in this thread.

[Anaesthesia]

This thread is beautiful.

[mizzl]

This thread is awesome

[Rina]

This thread is verging on epic. 

[Orbert]

Am I the only one who thinks that Eva Braun was kinda cute?

[Dark Master Of Sin]

Thanks to this thread I got no work done in accounting today, thanks.

[El Barto]

Last year, Time Life and Google started scanning and cateloging their archive.  They've continued to add stuff.  An unbelievable collection. 
https://images.google.com/hosted/life


War looks the same in any era.  Richmond Va, 1864.

[Fluffy Lothario]

[Fuzzboy]

I know this is an old thread, mah bad, but I just found these:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/sets/72157606203168340/

[Progmetty]

Gosh this is unbelievable! I've stood next to that Mohammed Ali statue in Alexandria! but most of the Cairo pictures I don't recognize the areas at all even though there isn't a place in Cairo that I haven't seen!
Thanks for posting that Fuzzboy, I'm gonna stare at these pictures for a long time lol

[Summers]

In a few hundred years' time, if we haven't blown ourselves up, it will be really cool to be able to look at very clear colour photos from the 20th/21st centuries recording all the historic moments that have happened or just everyday life.  Just a thought I had 

[MetalManiac666]

Am I the only one who thinks that Eva Braun was kinda cute?

No.

There are some mindblowing pics in this thread.

[Progmetty]

That's not Eva Braun, that's Gauletier Forster's wife in that picture with the Führer and Professor Morrel.
That's Eva https://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/2e7eb4f61b495070_large

[Orbert]

Thanks for the correction.  In that case, Forster's wife was cute, Eva not so much.

[Progmetty]

German soccer (could be wrong about the sport) team in 1936, they look super not-happy about the tank tops heh:



More pics from everyday life in the Third Reich https://www.flickr.com/photos/26538613@N07/page20/ very fascinating.

[cthrubuoy]

I remember this thread yesterday, weird you should bump it!

[kári]

I dunno when smiling was invented but certinly not in the 1800's as far as almost every photo I've seen is concerned heh

People didn't smile on pictures back then because exposure times were thirty seconds or even a few minutes. Try smiling that long.

[Chino]

[Fluffy Lothario]

Hiroshima:




A map of the South Pacific, drawn in 1644, from Abel Tasman's expedition on which he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand. You can see part of Papua New Guinea, a huge chunk of the coast of Australia, part of Tasmania, and part of New Zealand.

I was in a museum in Germany last year where they had a giant globe produced in the early 18th Century. At that point, Australia still hadn't been fully circumnavigated, but they had seen enough to hazard a decent guess of the shape of the country, so it was on the globe in full. New Zealand, however, wasn't touched again until 1769, 125 years after Tasman, so it was still just that one stretch of coast. I was actually pretty impressed that someone had bothered to include it on there at all.


New Plymouth, my home town, 1859. A year after this, the Maori in the region declared war. The town was fortified, and actually came under siege (insofar as a town on the coast can come under siege).

[AndyDT]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/our-battle-to-restore-the-sommes-unknown-heroes-to-their-families-2176120.html?action=Gallery&ino=4

[Fuzzboy]

The 3'rd guy is my Grandfather, who is about 70 years old now:


This is my Great Grandfather (my mom's mom's dad) looking badass, as usual (probably late 1930's):



And this is my Grandmother when she was a teenager in the middle (also in her 70's now), my great grandfather from the above pic on the right, and my great grandma on the left who was known for being a vocal supporter of the Nazi party until she died well after the Nazi party died :

The 3'rd pic is kinda weird for me, since I'd never seen any pictures of my grandma when she was young. She's always been "that old lady" to me, so seeing her young is strange. Especially since she still looks so much like she used to.

[Orbert]

I dunno when smiling was invented but certinly not in the 1800's as far as almost every photo I've seen is concerned heh

People didn't smile on pictures back then because exposure times were thirty seconds or even a few minutes. Try smiling that long.

I've never heard the explanation before, but that certainly makes sense.  You basically had to stay as still as possible, and trying to hold a smile would only result in your mouth coming out all blurry, or seriously aching if you did manage it.  So people just stood there straight-faced.

[Progmetty]

The 3'rd guy is my Grandfather, who is about 70 years old now:

Where was your grandpa stationed? and when?

[Fuzzboy]

The 3'rd guy is my Grandfather, who is about 70 years old now:
[img width=700 height=446]https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn115/sydanyo/1.png[/img

Where was your grandpa stationed? and when?

I'm pretty sure it was Parana, Argentina. I have no idea when though. Maybe late 50's?

[Progmetty]

Oh cool, I thought he was in Europe, I love talking to American veterans or their sons/grandsons about the experience in Europe, there's always a few stories passed on, collecting stories and life experiences from that period fascinates me to no end.
So your great grandma was German or the whole family was?

[Fuzzboy]

Oh cool, I thought he was in Europe, I love talking to American veterans or their sons/grandsons about the experience in Europe, there's always a few stories passed on, collecting stories and life experiences from that period fascinates me to no end.
So your great grandma was German or the whole family was?

Yep. She was 100% german. I have a picture of her in her 20's and she was quite pretty. My great grandpa's family is also German, but also Lappish, which is why he had jet black hair, dark skin, and very very blue eyes. Towards the end, he put on weight so everyone says that by the time he died, "you couldn't tell him apart from a Mexican"