The Earliest Born Person Ever Photographed
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- Photography was invented in the early 19th century, leaving us with only paintings of history up until that point. But some of the first people to be photographed were around 100 years old, and lived through pivotal events of the previous century like the American Revolution. In this video I talk about a selection of these people, and what they experienced over the course of their long lives.
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There are a lot of uncertainties and contradictory information about these people, so take what I said here with a grain of salt. For example I nearly included Joseph Souberbielle, a surgeon who played a part in the French revolution, before realizing that the man in the photo had probably been erroneously identified as him. He was a close friend of Robespierre and was charged with keeping Marie Antoinette alive for the duration of her trial. Apparently he started every day by singing a verse of the Marseillaise instead of saying a morning prayer.
I also forgot to say that Conrad Heyer is listed by some sources to have been born in 1753, not 1749. He is also claimed to have once been a bodyguard of George Washington.
Come on, man. You didn't take heed to the most important advice of that old man. Always verify your sources, lol
I appreciate your honesty about the info 👌 Rare thing these days.
I appreciate you. You're doing AMAZING work!
Thank you
Firstly, quite a quality production, one I very much enjoyed especially for your use of stills, footnotes and a real voice as opposed to a computerized one! Secondly, I’m curious as to whether the 1753 and nearby dates calculate in the date change that happened over 1752/53? It probably wouldn’t change things much even if you hadn’t, other than the Sprague or Heyer birth years. Look forward for more of your productions!
When I was a kid in the 1970s, there was a very old man who came into my dad's shop for a cup of tea now and again; he told us that when he was a little boy like me, he spoke to an old man who had fought against Napoleon at Waterloo.
There's a very real possibility that old man who met a veteran of the battle of Waterloo, also lived long enough to hear the ABBA song Waterloo.
@@DrHotelMarioAs for someone who was born in the early 1800's, who went to Waterloo as a drummer boy...it's unlikely, yet quite possible.
Since it's 1970s let's assume he was 80 when he said this to you. And let's assume he was 10 when old man told him he fought in Waterloo which means the year is around 1900. Which means the old man who fought in Waterloo must've been around 100 - 105. Ain't that quite unlikely?
@@yashshah3484 according to my Amazon echo, the last living veteran of the battle of Waterloo died in 1899. OP described the old man in 1970's as VERY old, so i'm assuming at least 90. 1970s - 90 would be 1880s, so lets say he met the veteran in the 1880s. Waterloo was in 1815, so maybe this guy was 18 in the battle, and let's say the kid was 5 years old when he met him; That means potentially the Waterloo vet would have only been 88 at the time of meeting the kid in 1885.
Well within the realm of possibility.
Also as an added bonus for my own shiggles, the song Waterloo came out in 1974, so if the meeting happened with OP was in 1974, the very old man would have been 94. Old, but within reason. I work retail and see more 90+ year olds than you'd think.
@@DrHotelMario do you remember anything from the time when you were five? Tell me honestly. I was born in 2004 and I don't remember such details of my life from the year 2009. I hardly remember my first day of school tbh.
I have a photo of my great-great-great grandmother who was born in 1790 in Isimir Turkey during the Ottoman Empire and she died at the age of 94 in 1884. She was a Greek Christian who fled persecution to Alexandria in Egypt, married a French soldier in Napoleon’s army and started our family roots in the Middle East. Sadly the family left Egypt during the Nasser revolution in the 1960s…The photograph I have of her is when she was around 90 years old and she wrote on the back in her own beautiful handwriting “Old in appearance, young in spirit”…wish I could’ve known her.
Awww that is lovely. That is amazing
That is a great story.
Interesting
that's an awesome story, thanks for sharing!
Wouldn't she be 8-10 at the time?
Just to be clear the 1850s may seem insanely long ago, but there where people born around then who saw sputnik.
But then again, they were only infants in the 1850s, not full grown adults like most people think when they hear the term "born in".
About seven generations isn't all that long. Great amounts of societal change only makes it seem so.
can't imagine what the future brings
@@majohladky3249 a Techno-Corporate Dictatorship it seams like.
I'm old enough to remember when "The Year 2000" was still the distant science-fiction future when we'd all be living on protein pills and travelling by flying car, and yet there are now adults who hadn't been born in 2000. Time marches on!
Its absolutely incredible to see a photograph of someone born in the early 1700s, who also would've lived amongst people born in the mid-late 1600s.
Makes you realize how short ago historic events actually are hey. Now imagine this. Someone born in the early 20th centure probably held you as a baby. In turn you will probably meet children when in your 90's that will live deep into the 22nd century and may even tick of 2200!
You essentially have touched people in a lifetime that are 250-300 years apart!
It’s not that incredible. There are plenty of photos of people who were born the 1700s. Go look up Dolly Madison, Andrew Jackson, and John Quincy Adams.. I’m sure there are many more.
@supercal3944 I said EARLY 1700s, most of the people you're talking about were born in the latter part of the 1700s.
@@dekippiesip People born in the 1990s who live until 2100 will have lived in two millenniums and three centuries. As someone born in 1995 I hope I can live long enough for that.
@@salam-peace5519. 2100 ! ? i dont think the earth will live that long ! 🤔
nah , just kidding that would be cool thoug 👍
This is so good, and a reminder of something I tell my kids often: "The past wasn't so long ago." I'm 67 and I have clear memories of my great-grandmother, who was born in 1875. She, in turn, told me stories about a great-uncle she knew as a child, who was born in 1793. So I knew someone who knew someone who lived in the 18th century. That makes it seem a lot closer in time, somehow.
fken hell Im just reading all these comments of people talking about old relatives I swear if I scroll down enough I will find someone claiming to know someone who met lucy in person
@@jakeleo4518 Right? You just have to wonder how many of these people are full of kakashka.
@@jakeleo4518 ...are you okay? you have been spamming this entire comment section with this exact same thing. I don't know why you had to ruin a perfectly nice video but ok lol
My grandma was born in 1916 or 17 and her grandpa died in the mid 1920s at 85. So he tool would have known people born in the 1700s.
Being born in 1999 means I might be one of the very last people of the previous millenium still around.
My godmother as a child saw queen Victoria. That always made me understand how close the past history is to our own lives.
That is absolutely incredible. Just curious… how old are you and how old was your godmother? Also in what context did your godmother see the Queen?
@lovecraftianwalrus4490 I'm 69. My God mother was English, I'm American. She saw her at some type of reception as a young girl. She was born in the 1880's.
My great grandmother saw Kaiser Wilhelm II during a parade.
@@Jacxb16 WOW. Did you ever meet her?
@@lovecraftianwalrus4490 Unfortunately not, she passed 20-30 years before I was born. My father has though.
Basically we're looking into the eyes of men who met people born in the 1600's.
True and spooky. Even if we take the verified claims in the 1740s, and those people were kids in the 1750s and they met someone who is about 100 years old, then they met someone who was born around the 1650s, who was around 30 years old in the 1680s. It gets even crazier if you consider the fact that if that person they met who was born in the 1650s also met someone who was a hundred years old in the 1660s, then that person was born in the 1560s. Those people looked into the eyes of people who had seen people born in the 1500s.
and heard stories from the 1500s
If you think about it it wasn't all that long ago
Yes that is amazing.
@@therealdarklizzy On a cosmic scale, that's all a drop in an ocean of time
Back around 1977 I had a friend who met someone who was so old that he danced with someone who had danced with Marie-Antoinette.
@feraudyh If you can remember more of the story I'd love to hear it.
@@kiranolan7104 I am afraid I would have to contact some old acquaintance.
No need to bother your ex wife. Let sleeping dogs be.
The last legally recognised crown prince of the Austrian Empire died in 2007. As a kid he was held in the arms of the Emperor Franz Joseph, who in turn was held in the arms of Marie Antoinette's nephew, the last Holy Roman Emperor (who ruled HolyRoman Empire during her life).
Interesting!
I have a photograph of my Great-Great-Great Father in Law born in 1796. My Great-great-great grandad jumped on a ship to Sweden to escape the second Danish-Prussian war in 1864, got married, bumped into a Polish photographer and started a new career. Always felt very lucky to have photographs from so long ago.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Truly you are very lucky. Please make sure that you keep track of the stories that went with your photos. Please.
Swedish win
I remember my grandma telling me about the first time she spoke on a telephone. She was 19 years old and it was a phone in town she remembered being so in awe that you could hear someone’s voice in real time when they aren’t near you.
Hahaha. That's nothing. I'm only 49 and I remember the first time speaking on a phone, in a phonebox, to another phonebox, as none of us had landlines... Unlike today where it's weird not to have a phone, lots of people didn't get a phone until the 1980s - or later.
@@hellfirepictures rather rude
This actually gave me chills, that is so cool
@hellfirepictures watch out we got a real Alexander Graham Bell here
I remember the first time I used the internet
If you have old or elderly people in your family, it is a good idea to speak to them about the old days when they were young. I am 72 years old now and wish I had talked to my parents and especially my grandparents about their lives when they were younger. My grandfather was born in 1897 and served in WWI. Although he died before I was born, I am sure that my father could have told me about him if only I had asked. I intend to write a little life history about myself so that my 9 grandchildren and 2 great-grand-children will have something of me when I am gone. Thanks for a very interesting video.
i am young right know and this is inspiring me to do the same i know a relative born in 1895 died in 1967 i researched him and pinpointed him because of a document he did in nyc confirming he lived there
Yesa, please dow rtie about your experience. My mother has dementia, and is variably able and unable to remember things. She delights in telling us things she has discovered about her parents' young lives, but her own stories are either not interesting to her, or she simply can't remember them. I feel sad.
please share them here!
I'm amazed you are 72 and can use a computer.
No need to ask about childhood, I got a VHS with my grandfather’s literal entire life growing up
It was filmed in the 1990s of a LOT of old photographs of him and his family that we no longer have. It has stuff like 8 year old him ripping apart and re-assembling a car in working condition, a Halloween costume he had, his brother using the jukebox, etc.
When you think of someone born in the
1730's you don't really think of them as people like you and me, but they were.
When looking into the face and eyes of
an actual photograph of someone really
from such another time, I can't help but wonder, - just what has this person actually seen ? It's like history itself has come alive again.
I think it's impossible for any modern person to really understand how it must have been to live through those periods. In movies and even in books, the characters always have the same mindset and values as us, something made in the 70s will always reflect people from the 70s no matter in what era the story is set in.
One thing that is fascinating for me, is when they mentioned for example that the first guy never really "left" the 1700s in his mind, and didn't really move with the time in the 1800s. For the random people meeting those old photographed models, they must have seemed out of touch, venerable but oldfashioned, and in contrast the 1850s must have felt so new, modern. The same way people from the 1920 would have felt for the 1850s, and the same way we feel for the 1920s or even the 1950s.
How did it feel to see the 1850s as so new and fresh, modern. I wish I'd understand, for me the 1850s feel like another world entirely, as tangible as a fantasy world.
They weren't like you and me. The culture, food, clothing, speech patterns, and daily routine were completely different. We'd likely be a better society today if we kept certain aspects of how they lived, but people of that age and people today are more dissimilar than similar.
Just what happened from 1950/60’s to the 80’s/90’s? I swear people look different. Maybe it was fashion. Maybe it was the hairstyles. Could be the colorization of tvs but dang they look different.
@@jayjohn9680Issac Newton died in 1727
Quite.
My dad, who was born exactly 60 years after Abraham Lincoln was shot (April 14) has told me that his grandmother remembered that day. She was just a little girl but hearing the news and seeing the people weeping made an impression on her.
There's a YT video of a man who remembers when Lincoln was assassinated! I think the interview with him was filmed in the 1950s when he was about 100 years old.
I enlisted in the Marines in 1987. It was some time in 1988 that I remember reading a news article that the last surviving veteran of the Spanish-American War passed away.
What’s even weirder is that the last Civil War pensioner died in 2020. 🤯
this is true but that person was the daughter of a man who fought in the civil war, they themselves werent even alive at the time.
The last person born in the 1800s died in 2017, a woman from Italy.
@@salam-peace5519So we can expect the last person born in 1999 to die in 2117.
As somebody born in 1999 i hope to be healthy in 2101@@PrimericanIdol
I am from Germany and have a favorite ancestor who lived from 1698-1782. When I think that these people were born here around 1750 and could have known and seen my great-grandfather of seven generation, I get goosebumps.
fken hell Im just reading all these comments of people talking about old relatives, I'm thoroughly convinced if I scroll down enough I will find someone claiming to know someone who met lucy the australopithecus in person 💀☠
4:37 blood hell the way he speaks about this gives me goose bumps "Ya when I was 19 on my way to meet this fine lady (whom I later married to, for you degen out there) the lads told me trouble was cooking on the ports..." 💀 Just hearing from someone that has lived a point in time that's only ever mentioned in our history books today, the way he speaks about this in first person perspective 💀 "Ya don't tell me the stories I was there myself" kinda shit
@@jakeleo4518I think there's a video from numberphile named "every baby is a royal baby" or something like that. There they basically explain that if you go back ~1000 years it's highly likely for someone at random to be related with you.
Having considered this, I don't view people saying they have connections with royalty or other groups of people weird. It would be weird if it was a recent relative, like their grand or great-grandfather.
@@jakeleo4518But I agree, this one doesn't really make sense
My mom was from Germany and back in 1939/40 every family had to do their family tree to prove that there were no Jewish people in the family. My Opa got as far back as 1700 and I still have it.
The oldest ancestor I have a photograph of was born in around 1791 (Johanna Eleonore Ulrich d. 1888), photographed in around 1859 with her younger husband, sons, and daughters, and I thought that was pretty long ago!
That is amazing
fken hell Im just reading all these comments of people talking about old relatives I swear if I scrool down enough I will find someone claiming to know someone who met lucy in person
Lucy, as in that ancient fossilied gyal@@jakeleo4518
Liar
@@aarons6935self projection on the first comment?
Amazing
Such a fascinating video! I’ve got a photo of my great-great-grandfather from just a few years after the Papal States were disbanded in 1870; he still has the Phrygian-looking hat and ethnic garb that Italians would wear before the great internal migrations of the country and its subsequent modernization and westernization.
I have a family photo of my grandfather who was born in 1907, and behind him are 4 prior generations, his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather. Although not as old as these photographs or people, I think the oldest 'great xx' grandfather was born @ 1835 or so. My grandfather said he remembered the old man with a beard.
That’s a bold face lie
I also have a photo of my great great great grandfather. I don’t have the original, as unfortunately my piece of shit grand uncle has it.
But it’s weird seeing your ancestor, someone who met people who lived in the 1700s.
I’m not sure the date of the photograph, but I would assume it was around the time of yours. He has a pretty large beard and the clothes look appropriate to the time
The guy was German though, I’m not even sure which nation from Germany either
I do still have the rocking chair that he and his wife brought over to the US
@@podomuss I think it is a good thing to digitize and if you can scan all your family photos and put them on a blu ray disc and put it in a bank deposit box, in case your house floods, or burns down or something horrid happens, you have a good backup. I think as cool as these photos are, it will be even cooler in 100 or 200 years, can you imagine, your decedents looking at great, great...xxx grandpa from 300 years ago? My niece has 2 photos of my grandmother, from the 1920's and you would think they were the same person, just in different clothing. My niece is the spitting image of my grandmother at the same age. It is very strange. You sure can't claim they are not related.
@@casper191985 why do people feel so committed to deny totally plausible things in the most aggressive way possible lol
There was a radio show in Germany back in the 1970ies. There was and elderly woman requesting a song from her youth. She recalled having met her grandfather who served as a hussar in Waterloo under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Was it Waterloo by Abba?
From Concord, Massachusetts, it's still wild to imagine that these *photographed* people stood on the land I stand on now nearly 300 years ago
I agree. I'm from Medford MA and own a house built by one of the 12 main Clipper Ship builders here. The man in this video was named Sprague from Hingham and is undoubtably the same family of great Shipbuilders in Medford. All of the ship builders here were originally from the South Shore - Hingham, Marshfield etc. coming to Medford after land had been freed up from the Revolutionary War. Sprague is one of the earliest names in New England as the Sprague brothers "found" modern day Medford when they marched through Malden from the Salem Colony in the early 1630's.
What's incredible is the old age some of these people lived to. They were all born at home with natural child birth. They survived childhood without vaccines. Then went through life with minimal health care avoiding pneumonia, tuberculosis and a hundred other ailments that could kill you.
My grandmother was born on a farm in 1912 and died in 2017. She lived through the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918, survived childhood without vaccinations, gave birth to her own children at home in the 1930s and raised them during the Great Depression. She was rarely sick in her entire life, even to the end when she just faded away.
@@lisalu910 No processed food, that stuff will do you in.
well, its not like there is drastic difference in human biology itself. Once you survive childhood/younger years(sadly many many did not, hence the low average lifespan of ppl in the past), you can live for quite a while as long you dont get into those big wars etc etc.
How interesting! Thank you for giving a detailed background of these people. Seeing someone who lived in the 1700s in the flesh via photograph is amazing.
Wow, this is amazing! The oldest relative I have a photo of is a four-times great-grandmother born in 1822 who died in 1911 on January 1st. She came from France with her husband, who died before photography became really big in 1880. We have a few dozen pictures from the 1910s and even half a dozen from before 1900 which is pretty amazing compared to a lot of people, we we're just farmers and things but that was entertainment back then, taking those.
We have a few photos from the late 19th century, unfortunately we don't know which relatives they are of.
I have a photo of my great grandfather, taken in the 1880s. Though he was already in falling health by then, its still treasured in our family. Remarkable that a crofter in the Scottish Highlands had a photo! Must have cost him immensely
And I think for your average farmer, a very expensive thing to do, go get your picture taken. Thank you for sharing.
The oldest relative I have a photo of is my paternal grandfather who was born in 1889 who died in 1958
the oldest photo I have is me when I was 10
This is crazy I’ve literally been thinking about this for ages like I’ve watched interviews of people talking about the 1800s and just think it such a wild concept that photos are only abit over 150 years
In fact, the first permanent photograph taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce is now 195 yrs old. Fascinating!!!
@@bettywiendels5714 that’s crazy we can look back at almost 200 years ago even if the photo is just a blur still insane
@@bennybennerson7728 Yes, I agree!!
Imagine going through the Revolutionary War as a child and before you die going through the Civil War.
The earliest born person verified here was 11 years older than Mozart, crazy!
I like it that the earliest born people on photograph weren't kings or rulers but rather normal people. It's like the fact, that the earliest recorded name in history is the one of a slave.
I have a photograph we are almost certain is of my 4x great grandmother, born around 1778. (It is part of a matching pair, and the other is definitely her daughter.) She died in the early 1850s, and the picture is consistent with photographs from then, so we think it was taken shortly before she died. A family treasure!
My 6th Great Grandmother, Hannah Stilley Gorby was born around 1746 and was photographed sometime before her death in 1840. She’s also descended from a Lady Beata Salinus who served as housekeeper for Queen Hedwig Eleonora of Sweden. Beata’s father was a doctor born in Poland who moved to Sweden and developed called Clissus. Apparently it was used to cure soldiers during the plague years of 1622-24. He is my 11th great-grandfather, Dr Balthasar Salinus.
Awesome little piece of family history! Hannah Stilley Gorby was one of the real OGs (in all due respect) of early photography subjects. Has her birthdate ever been verified as far as you know?
fken hell Im just reading all these comments of people talking about old relatives, I'm thoroughly convinced if I scroll down enough I will find someone claiming to know someone who met lucy the australopithecus in person 💀☠
@@joebabbles3818 As far as I know we only have 1746 listed as her approximate birthdate. We have exact birthdates for her surrounding siblings, one of which people sometimes confuse her with. Elizabeth Ann Stilley Zelbey was born July 18th, 1744. Her other sibling after Hannah was Dinah born 27th of February 1751. I don’t really know why we have most of her roughly 14 siblings exact birthdates but not hers.
Pozdrawiamy z Polski
Oldest photo I have is of my great great grandfather, Edvard Munch Roll, born in 1849. He was the cousin of Edvard Munch, who painted The Scream😱 I've always found this very interesting, they wrote letters to each other and stuff. In one letter Munch writes that they played chess and had a good time. Although, we are Norwegians, and it doesn't take long for anyone to find someone who is related to someone historically noteworthy or even famous lol
Not as old as some of these but I have my 4th great grandparents’ photos and they were both born in 1792 and died in 1892/93. They had their first and only pictures taken at a family reunion in 1892, right before my 4th great grandma passed. They were 100 years old. I treasure those photos.
On Christmas Day, 1999, I held my cousin's granddaughter, who had been born the day before. It suddenly struck me that my grandparents, her great great grandparents, had been born in the 19th century, and that the child in my arms could still be alive in the 22nd century.
Later, I began to think that my own great great grandparent's were possibly born in the 18th century (the date of birth of my great grandmother suggests this was the case for at least one of her parents). My grandmother, an elderly lady when I was born, could have been held by her great grandmother, she certainly held me as I've a photograph showing me with my grandparents (I also have photographs of my great grandmothers from the 19th century).
In turn, I held the new born, possibly linking the end of the 18th century with the start of the 22nd century, through a chain of 4 people.
Photographs seem to make these links seem more real, and films even more so. I recently watched a film and was rather shocked to realise that every main actor in it was now dead. We are a generation where it is possible to be entertained by the antics of the dead!
I'm 41 years old, and I have met people who were born in the 19th Century when I was small. I also knew my great grandmother really well, and she was born in 1904.
Taken in 1838, Louis Daguerre's photograph of a Paris street scene shows a man standing along the Boulevard du Temple getting his shoes shined. It is widely believed to be the earliest extant photograph of human figures.
You can also see such figures as The Duke of Wellington in a photograph.
2 photographs exist of a 75yo Duke of Wellington. Taken at the same time shortly before his death. One profiling his right side and the other the left. Although not the earliest born person it's not something that was known to exist until the family revealed them just over 10 years ago.
The duke of Wellington lived well into his 80s so he was either not 75 in that photo or he was but then it was taken years before his death.
If memory serves - the pictures were known about. It's just that one of them wasn't in the public domain so it's existence wasn't known of outside of the family. The other was.
Oh, I love this channel. :D That's exactly the kind of stuff that fascinates me. It makes you realize that recorded human history isn't actually as long as we tend to think.
Have you heard of the earliest known sound recording of a human voice? (from 1860) There is a video on UA-cam (by project "First Sounds") about how they discovered it. It's a really fascinating story, because the inventor, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, never intended it to be replayed. Still, they managed to do exactly that.
Yeah, I've seen a video about that. It's really fascinating! I also remember listening to a recording from ca 1880 where you can faintly hear the sound of a choir. All of those people, long since gone. Haunting stuff!
@@kingsandthings Yeah, I remember that as well. It's also interesting that they initially thought it was a women who sang "Au claire de la lune", but then discovered that they had played it too fast and that it was really Scott de Martinville's voice.
There are also sound recordings of Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke (the Elder). Very fascinating stuff. I think there is also a recording of a piano piece that might be played by Johannes Brahms himself, but there is no definitive proof for that. :D What a pity that the Phonograph wasn't invented earlier, because then perhaps we could still listen to the voices of the people on the photographs you showed in the video.
Interestingly the earliest birth date of someone who we have a sound recording of is Sir Robert Christison who was born in 1797. His voice was recorded in 1878 and he died in 1882
@@kingsandthings the record with the choir you are referring to is from 1888 and it was a concert of GF Handel’s piece of classical music “ Israel in Egypt” and it was performed around June 29 of that here. It was performed in the now long gone crystal palace in London.
It doesn't matter you could not find out exactly who the earliest born person ever photographed was but we want to thank you for the information and for all the research and hard work that went into the making of this video: it's much appreciated. Great production. ❤
Great how this shatters the notion of 'history' and shows how famous events are just a little older than old news.
Good video. A correction: Magdalen College, Oxford is pronounced maud-lin.
My grandmother lived well into her nineties, and I often spoke with her. Born in 1888, she remembers going to the local Church to ring the bells after the Relief of Mafeking in 1900. (This was during the Boer War, and caused much joy in Britain.)
When she was in London staying with aunts, from Constitution Hill she witnessed the parade on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I’m 37. My nana’s (my dads mom still alive) dad was born in 1895. I was 15 when my great grandpa born 1911 passed away. His parents were born in 1870’s and my grandpa born in 1935 knew them well. He even met his grandparents born in 1850. My great grandmother born 1914 passed away 2009. It’s crazy to think that my immediate family that I’ve known knew people born
as early as 1820.
my grandmother was born in 1906 and my dad was born in 1936. I'm 35 years old so I was born in 1988
I’m 44, and my grandfather was born in 1895. Growing up in the 80’s, it didn’t sound weird. But now it does.
@@christosyal5883Did you ever get to see him?
Your Nana is 128 now, that is impressive.
Sorry misread, you are referring to a great grandfather.
I always find the continuity our relatively long life spans give us, to be amazing. Im in my late 30's, so I have been lucky enough to have met half a dozen or so returned WW1 soldiers, in my youth, as schools would have returned soldiers visit in the week around Anzac Day. All but one of which, who falsified his age to serve, where born in the late 1890's. Meaning they where born at a time when some 1700's era people where still alive. That's a single degree of seperation between myself, and the 1700's.
Wouldn’t that be two degrees?
@@ANTAlex-pe9li It's two degrees of seperation total, but only one degree between. For instance, your grandparent is two generations away, but there's one generation, your parent, between the two of you.
We must collect samples from you!!!
I prefer not to dwell on it too much, although these kinds of thoughts cross my mind now and again. Better to live in the moment!
My grandpa and his father both served in the Navy, the latter having been at Pearl Harbor the day it was attacked, and on the USS Indianapolis weeks before it was sunk. My grandpa has a letter hung up on the wall written to him by his father from 31 years ago, when his first grandson was born. I believe he passed away when I was 7, around 2005.
The first colour photograph was taken in 1861. There’s some great colour photos from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. There’s even a colour photo of Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy.
We take photography for granted now. More pictures are taken every two minutes today than had been taken during the entire 19th century. More pictures have been taken in the past two years than in all history prior.
I remember when if i wanted to show everybody a picture of my dinner, I would have to take the photo, then take the film to the photo hut, then write addresses on envelopes, then stamp the envelope, put it in the mailbox and a week later, my friends would see the picture.
We are very privileged to be able to see these people in photographs and others in black and white video footage over 100 years ago. Amazing seeing the past
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You're choice of audio and the panning of quality photos and your voice works as a symphony!
Photos tend to bring subjects into what we feel like is sort of modernity, contemporaries of our selves. People known only from paintings might as well be characters from Lord of the Rings. It brings a concreteness to their existence. The same thing with being filmed in color. Color footage of WW I and WWII makes those events seem much more relevant to us now and not just the products of some unenlightened time. I also enjoy hearing audio recorded accounts of long past history like former slaves, Civil war vets and frontier fighters.
It’s assume to see color photos and films that make it almost tangible.
Thanks, very interesting! I was born in 1956. My father was born in 1892. His father in 1850... quite a generation leap!
Stumbled upon this channel last night... watching the "18th century megastructures" video and have been addicted right off the jump.
You have fantastic narration, a soothing and articulate voice. I love your research and the vast amount of photos you source!!
Keep it up! I don't suggest channels to my friends often but this one is definitely being shared around my circle.
Martin Routh became President of Magdalen College in 1791 and served for 63 years until his death aged 99 in 1854. He was succeeded by Frederick Bulley, who served over 30 years until 1885, and then by Herbert Warren who served for 43 years until 1928. So in the 137 years from 1791 to 1928 the college had only three Presidents.
I was at Magdalen 25 years ago and they're currently on the third President since then!
Splendid. Just splendid. I was mesmerised with the idea of the first-ever person to be photographed, as well as your sheer dedication to detail and their stories. I love the video so much.
I wonder what's the first ever photograph taken. Maybe it's a person or a place, maybe it exist somewhere or it's been lost to history. Either that or the earliest known photograph would be a fantastic subject for you to discuss. I'm excited to see what you'll tackle in your next video.
the first ever photograph using a camera is actually quite well known! It is a photo made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1827
@@sylvievandenelzen9227 That was the first permanent photograph that still exists but many photos were taken much earlier even in the late 1790's but faded away almost instantly.
@@casualcadaver Wow! Great to know! Fascinating!
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Isn't it just Nicéphore's neighborhood roofs or something?
1839 is when the first "permanent" photographic images process was developed. Unstable photography existed before then.
The past really isn’t that far away. There are people alive today who’ve met American civil war veterans. And there were civil war veterans who had met revolutionary war veterans.
Thank you for this video! I’m glad to see that so many others also spend their time pondering this. I was born in 1971 with a grandfather who was born in 1912 and lived until 2004. His father took part in the 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish rebels rose up against British rule and would have been executed had he not made it to Boston. My Grandfather, who was born the year Fenway Park opened and the Titanic sank. I have spent a lot of time pondering what events he made me one or two degrees of separation from by way of some of the old timers he must have me along the way. Easily could, in theory at least, be people alive when these pictures were taken.
I can relate. I was born in 1981 and my grandfather was born in 1897. It is strange to ponder. I never met him as he died a few years prior to my birth.
I often think about who might have spent time in years gone by, on the very spot where I now live. What things might have happened there? How many generations of people have lived there? A bit off topic, but when thinking of such things I often also think of how odd it is that we are all created from matter that was formed in the early years of the universe, 13.5 billion years ago and that that same matter will, in one form or another, continue to exist until the end of time itself. Weird.
Sort of like me, I was born in 1987 and my grandfather was born in 1895. He lived to the age of 96 and died in 1991. I have a few scattered memories of him.
@@stephenpeterson7514 amazing you are very lucky in my country we didn't record birth dates even my fathers birthdate is not known people just remember it as being before monsoon in 1967 lol ......we have only one surviving picture of my grandpa i never met him but i wonder about the people before him and there lives we don't even know there names universe has forgotten about there existence......we inherited vast estate's from them and we know nothing about them
@@peterjames6620 nothing truly matters all our worries all our problems some day will all be forgotten.....we should thus spend time doing what we love.....and taking care of people that we love that's where happiness and meaning is....i am gonna leave a lot of things for my grand grand children to look at.....and help them wonder about the universe ,the nature of our existence....in this digital age we are probably going to leave a lot of details about our lives
such an interesting topic! it felt so nourishing to be able to see these old photos of people and as you say, look into their 18th century eyes. I also loved very much that you didnt claim as other youtubers tend to do for marketing reasons, that these are the oldest photos of the earliest born people out there, and instead you offered room for doubts and other possibilities in an elegant and honest way.
This is so cool. Informative, interesting, and very well-produced. Well done! Thank you ✨
God, they spoke so eloquently. Too bad we've lost that language. It's a shame.
Fabulous!!! I hope you'll update this video when and if you find more about these people or perhaps others. The stories that they tell, true or not, bring life to their existence. Thanks for your work.
My oldest grandparent was born in 1882; witnessed the birth of telephone, horseless carriages, Wright brothers, refrigeration, Titanic etc.
I asked my oldest uncle (1917) what grandpa thought of these and he responded that when they first appeared it was awesome but just after months everyone was adapting to them. This is one reason we’re special, we adapt quickly to leaps in progress.
My grandmother was born in a small town in Italy in 1902. I remember asking her when she saw her first plane. It was in Italy when she was a teenager and she was frightened by the site. Just a few years after she told me this story she experienced the moon landing.
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Must be something to see an early plane that’s top speed was like 110kph and then watch the Apollo landing where the spacecraft was traveling at 25k kph; all in just six decades.
Compare today almost six decades later and spacecraft have not increased speed since, everyone thought we’d have spaceships traveling 200k kph by now.
I asked my dad who was military intelligence why we don’t have faster ships; he said to me in the 90’s the aerospace industry have designed engines capable of 500k kph and then explained the military and gvmt prevent the development of them because there’s no defense against vehicles traveling at those insane speeds; basically a vehicle or weapon can travel from Beijing to New York in a minute and no way to stop it
@@tysonas1 That's very interesting. As an aside, my grandmother noted that most times after we sent a rocket into space we experienced bad weather soon after. She thought it was doing damage to the atmosphere. She passed in 1991.
It will be the same for or grandchildren when we tell them how we witnessed the early development of the internet, social media, the first smartphones, the rise of AI art etc. To them it will be a normal established thing they grew up with but we experienced the pre-smartphone and pre-AI art time.
@@tysonas1 500k kph would send a spacecraft on a trajectory to literally the other side of the universe.
the exhaust alone would fry every living thing on the planet.
Thank you! This is fascinating! I appreciate that you gathered some information on the people pictured. My maternal grandmother was born in in NYC in 1901, and as a young woman worked at a photography studio during WWI. Part of her job was to hand watercolor photos. She had her own camera, and I have her photo albums, in addition to her collection of older family photos (including some actual tintypes), dating back to 1870. My other grandmother was born in 1894 in rural Wisconsin, and passed away in 1992. As a child I was amazed to hear her talk about driving a horse and buggy to teach in a one-room school in North Dakota. She never did learn to drive a car.
A fascinating video that puts the past in great perspective and makes our ancestors that much more tangible. Something else to wrap your mind around is that the lives of only about 20 consecutive centenarians separate us from first-century BCE Rome. That's right, only 20 consecutive, long-lived individuals separate us from the likes of Cicero, Julius Caesar, and Augustus!
I have seen a photo of my great great great great grandmother who was born in 1785 and died in 1869. It blew my mind to look at it, knowing she was born before the French Revolution.
I was amazed to find in a MA newspaper from 1921 a poor quality print of a photo of 4 generations of my ancestors and my grandmother's half-brother who was in the arms of my 17 year old great-grandmother. The picture also includes her mother, grandfather, and great-grandmother, the latter born in 1844. The shorter generations in this line made me and my siblings/cousins the last of 8 generations to live in some part of the 20th century.
Your output is excellent; accurate, well-researched and thought-provoking. You also have a very pleasing voice as a narrator.
These videos are underrated. Great stuff!!
This video is a beautiful work of art. I enjoy watching historical videos and then witnessing certain events while playing Civilization V.
It is obvious much research, time and care has been taken in the making of this video. I appreciate it. Very informative.
Great video. I found the story of Caesar to be particularly interesting and wanted to see if there was any chance that the claim of an 1737 birth date was possible. It seems highly unlikely given that the first verified 110 year old was recorded in 1899, the first verified 115 year old in the 1980's, and the longest lived male recorded even now was 116. Perhaps someone mistakenly wrote 1737 in place of another year such as 1747.
The 1850 census records Caesar aged 110, implying a birth year of 1740 or 1739. If correct, this means he died at age 111 or 112.
The first person to reach 110 may have been a man named Thomas Peters, allegedly born in 1745 who died a few days before his 112th birthday in 1857. He was formerly verified by Guinness World Records but the documents used to verify him have been lost.
A French lady lived to the old, ripe age of 122 and passed away in Aug 1997. Was born in 1875 and even met a Dutch painter named Vincent Van Gogh in Paris, France. Found him rude and dirty.
verified is the key word. Birth certificates are common relatively recently but people could have lived to the same age long before then.
@@arago8649 There's people in further back in history that have lived way longer
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I would be both honoured and delighted if someone were to describe me in the way Martin Ruth was described.
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Top notch video. Excellent video in all ways! Congratulations!
Intriguing video. Wonderful collection of old photos. Fantastic narration.
This was a very interesting and fascinating video! Good work. Thank you.
There are some other ones that I have found sketching through family tree sites, here's 2 of them
Charles Cromwell Addington, Sr. (1777 - 1882), lived up to 104 years
Fereby Lou Benton (disputed but one source is 1756 - 1864), which is 108.
So well done! Thank you!
What a fascinating video. Thank you so very much for making it for us.
Wonderful video! Thank you for all the work that was put into this.
What a fascinating video! And I spent a long time reading the interesting comments too. Needless to say, you have a new subscriber!
Extremely interesting video as always.
Content such as this deserves at least 1 million subscribers, keep it up.
This was excellent. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Thanks for making it.
Brilliantly and beautifully done!
My 5th great grandfather, 3rd great grandson of Pocahontas was born in 1749 and he was photographed with his wife and every generation since has been photographed. I never realized they were among the earliest born people photographed like these others. Thank you!!! 🥰
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This was very informative, thank you for posting it.
Fascinating video! It’s so important to preserve old and any photographs
Fascinating stuff, very well presented, thank you. These connections to the past are always touching. My great aunt Dot, who lived well into my teens, knew a relative of ours who had fought in the War of 1812.
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@@aimee-lynndonovan6077 I imagine he was a piper or a drummer and might have been as young as twelve.
very interesting video idea and great content as always
Man.. Your videos are all things I've wondered about and looked up to some extent.
Utterly superb content, bravo!
Excellent video! You should do one on the earliest born people who were photographed in color.
Great idea! Why not?
Whenever people talk about historical events, I try to remind them that the time wasn’t so long ago. I try to make them think about who they know that would have been alive at that time or how we’re connected to that time. I was born in 1995 but both sets of my grandparents were born between the 1910s and 1920s. Almost all of my aunts and uncles were born before and nearly adults before segregation ended in the U.S. My parents were part of the school desegregation/busing program in St. Louis because St. Louis dragged out the process. Both of my grandfathers were WWII veterans. One of them had been a sharecropper prior to the Great Migration. The house I own was completed in 1899 but it sits on land that was owned by the governor of Missouri during the civil war. The governor that was put in place to make sure Missouri didn’t officially secede from the Union. And my mother used to spend the summer with her aunt who was the child of a formerly enslaved woman. The march of time moves forward but it doesn’t mean we don’t interact with it.
You’re 25 and own a house. You sure you’re from this generation?
@@pathologicaldoubt lol. I own the house because my grandparents bought the house in 1962 and it’s remained in my family ever since. Passing from parent to child when the parent dies. It’s a fixer upper but I’m glad to have it. I’m currently doing a renovation that’ll cost around $125,000 which seems like a lot of money until you think about how much a house that size would cost if I had to buy it. And I turn 28 this month.
Just to put it into perspective, this was essentially two 85 year olds living back to back.
My grandmother is around 85, and she speaks without pause. No hesitation like you'd expect from someone elderly. It is relevant when you think about how short life is. This really wasn't that long ago.
ain't that the reason we keep telling y'all that the holocaust of the chattel of slavery was a forthnight ago . the memories of it are not only palpable but the trauma has been ingested and is expressed regularly
@@PHlophe I think the anger you have is misdirected at me. I wouldn't deny that.
You have a wonderful speaking voice and these videos are really enjoyable!
I am in admiration of the way you present these epic pictures of the distant past. People of and born in the era of George Washington and Louis XVI can be seen in photos nowadays nearly as crystal clear as the ones we capture on our Android and Apple phones. We've got remastered motion flicks - with updated effects of sound - of people born in the late 18th century.
I find this most interesting! Well made video!
same
I miss when the history channel shown shows about actual history.
I am so happy to have found this channel. Wonderful work here.
this topic wasnt crazy interesting to me but its still so enjoyable to watch, your videos ambience/vibe is really peaceful and soothing. its relaxing to watch and listen hehe
Its kind of funny how the stereotype is that people from older times had shorter lives...but so many of these people lived passed 100. Crazy.
They lived to 104 in the mid 1800s. Crazy
In dog years is more like it…..
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Fascinating video. Thanks for doing the research and putting this video up.
Excellent presentation. This has always been an interest of mine. It's so fascinating.