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The Earliest Photographs of the United States of America: Part 1 (1840's)

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    Photography was introduced to the world in 1839 in France by Louis Daguerre and quickly spread throughout Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world. Surviving photographs taken of human subjects outside over the next decade in the United States in the 1840's are some of the most scarce in existence. This video attempts to assemble the largest collection of such photos taken between 1842 and the early 1850's.These are all either daguerreotypes or calotype salted paper prints.
    Chestnut and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia, by George Read, 1842: www.geh.org/fm/....
    Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, possibly by Mathew Brady, 1843.
    Chestnut Street shops, Philadelphia, by William G. Mason, 1843: www.loc.gov/pic....
    Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, by William G. Mason, 1843: www.loc.gov/pic....
    Girard Bank, Nativist Riots, Philadelphia, by W. & F. Langenheim, 1844: explorepahistor....
    Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hays, Camp Salubrity, Louisiana, 1845: www.vahistorica....
    Grist mill, c. 1845: www.getty.edu/a....
    "Plymouth and Kingston Express Wagon," Massachusetts, c. 1846.
    Mexican-American War parade, Dayton, Ohio, c. 1846.
    Mexican-American War parade, Exeter New Hampshire, c. 1846.
    Mexican American War funeral, Wilmington, North Carolina, c. 1848: susan747.wordpr....
    Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, c. 1846: www.librarycomp....
    Arch and 8th Streets, Philadelphia, 1847: libwww.freelibr....
    Tom Thumb's visit, St. Louis, by Thomas Easterly, 1848: collections.moh....
    California pioneers in Columbus, Ohio, 1849: www.flickr.com....
    Union Fire Company firefighters, St. Louis, by Thomas Easterly, 1848: collections.moh....
    Cincinnati riverfront view, by Charles Fontayne and William Porter, 1848: 1848.cincinnati....
    Montgomery County Courthouse, Dayton, Ohio, 1848.
    Confectionery shop, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849: www.flickr.com/....
    California pioneers in Columbus, Ohio, 1849: www.flickr.com....
    Carysfort Reef Florida lighthouse in Philadelphia, by Frederick and William Langenheim 1849: www.christies.c....
    Canal locks under construction, c. 1849: www.getty.edu/a....
    www.getty.edu/a....
    African American man and steer, c. 1850: www.germainewil....
    Man on horse-drawn buggy with dog, c. 1849.
    American Hotel fire aftermath, Buffalo, New York, 1850.
    Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York, by Ezra Greenleaf Weld, 1850: www.syracuse.co....
    A busy Montgomery Street, San Francisco, by Frederick Coombs, 1850.
    General Tom Thumb and his miniature carriage. (Correction: Tom Thumb is not in the photograph and it was actually taken sometime in the 1850's as it is an ambrotype.)
    A group of men posing on a sidewalk, c. 1850.
    Ohio Star newspaper buggy, Ravenna, Ohio, c. 1850: www.flickr.com/....
    Stagecoach service between Rome and Hamilton, New York, c. 1850.
    Steam locomotive Tioga, Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, c. 1850: explorepahistor....
    Man with an elephant, by Thomas Easterly, c. 1850: artblart.com/ta....
    Horse-drawn sleigh, c. 1850.
    Men posing with a prized bull, c. 1850: www.getty.edu/a....
    College students portrait, Bethany College, West Virginia, c. 1850: www.finedags.co....
    School group portrait, c. 1850.
    Peddler's wagon, c. 1850.
    A family in Cincinnati, by Charles Fontayne and William Porter, c. 1850.
    People on a bridge over the Seneca River, Seneca Falls, New York c. 1850: americanart.si.....
    Four men and a dog, c. 1850.
    Union Hotel under construction, San Francisco, c. 1850: www.metmuseum.o....
    Independence Square entrance, Philadelphia, c. 1850: Library of Congress
    Customs House, Philadelphia, by Frederick Langenheim, c. 1850:
    www.loc.gov/pic....

КОМЕНТАРІ • 709

  • @Chubachus
    @Chubachus  7 років тому +28

    Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/b9-yXjyISkc/v-deo.html
    The earliest 3D photos of the United States: ua-cam.com/video/9KLv-wHD5a8/v-deo.html

    • @billsamuls7620
      @billsamuls7620 6 років тому +1

      looks the same as england does now

  • @bracken1000
    @bracken1000 7 років тому +498

    Black and white photos make the past look dreary but the reality is that it was just as colorful as it is today. Trees were green, the sky was blue, and tomatoes were red.

    • @joeymama4666
      @joeymama4666 6 років тому +71

      Jason Smedley
      Nuh uh, Walt Disney invented color in 1929. Before that everything was grey.

    • @justjess-zl3pm
      @justjess-zl3pm 5 років тому +14

      Ummmm I'm sorry but no shit dude. Lol did u really think u needed to remind us that the sky was actually blue and grass and trees green? ROFL

    • @BamberdittoPingpong
      @BamberdittoPingpong 5 років тому +12

      And people did not dress in all black.

    • @HawkinaBox
      @HawkinaBox 5 років тому +5

      I always think about that.

    • @meem1731
      @meem1731 5 років тому +11

      People didn't understood your metaphor

  • @cmay878
    @cmay878 8 років тому +257

    in a time when taking a photograph was an event.

  • @FORRESTJASPER
    @FORRESTJASPER 6 років тому +66

    When I was a kid in the 1970's, I bought a book published in 1816, at a flea market. Inside one of the pages, I found part of a very ancient ticket stub to a 'dance' ball with a tiny green fragment of a stenciled/printed woman in a huge hoop skirt.

    • @wokeeye6441
      @wokeeye6441 5 років тому +1

      Addisons' Spectator? Johnson's Tattler? The Works of Oliver Goldsmith? The Vicar of Wakefield? Johnson's lives of the poets?

    • @mrmann5053
      @mrmann5053 2 роки тому +1

      @@wokeeye6441 why are you saying all that?

    • @westcarter3862
      @westcarter3862 Рік тому +2

      ..Take it to Either and or Both'.. Antique's Roadshow and Pawn Stars Rick Harrison'.. But NOT TO CHUMLEE !! 😹

  • @chriss1519
    @chriss1519 7 років тому +175

    Is it ok if I have more than 2 seconds to look at the photo?

    • @ahmoseh3718
      @ahmoseh3718 5 років тому +10

      @Macho Man when I push pause my screen darkens the pic

    • @xpeeriments6452
      @xpeeriments6452 5 років тому

      Christopher Milo no it is not sorry

    • @qworky902
      @qworky902 5 років тому +6

      Yeah, it was way too fast

    • @oveidasinclair982
      @oveidasinclair982 4 роки тому +6

      It's called the pause button, lower left hand corner of the video and when you're done looking at the picture you can click it one more time and the video restarts where it left off at. Modern technology, isn't it wonderful Milo.

    • @markwarren7116
      @markwarren7116 4 роки тому +3

      You know how to pause the video?

  • @chewyduck1355
    @chewyduck1355 4 роки тому +32

    Wonderful content. I love this. Would it be possible to leave the photos up for a few seconds longer so we could enjoy them properly😊

  • @ktkat1949
    @ktkat1949 8 років тому +73

    Love photos like this. I look at the people and wonder what their lives were like and if their descendants are alive and maybe watching the photos and don't even know that they are related to them. It is hard to imagine that this took place some 15 years before the US civil war (give or take) Really fascinating.

    • @irisheyesofbelfast
      @irisheyesofbelfast 4 роки тому

      Naturally they have descendants alive today.

    • @mikaeladonges9102
      @mikaeladonges9102 4 роки тому +2

      I always try and picture their personalities. You know the silly one, the thinker, the serious one, etc. 😍

    • @mikaeladonges9102
      @mikaeladonges9102 4 роки тому +1

      Especially the guys at 7:38

    • @Nullybk
      @Nullybk Рік тому

      Proof that slavery and shit wasn’t as ago as people make it seem it’s recent enough to be photographed.

    • @karenharrison885
      @karenharrison885 Рік тому

      I love the silence too. No annoying trashy tacky music. Adds to the reality of the past; silent.

  • @dtadeo2006
    @dtadeo2006 6 років тому +131

    the frikkin captions stays on longer than the pics!!

    • @mysticalmargaret6105
      @mysticalmargaret6105 4 роки тому +1

      You can slow the speed down in the settings a tad if you want.

    • @oiudatropen9548
      @oiudatropen9548 4 роки тому

      this is not very well done.

    • @pobunny508
      @pobunny508 3 роки тому +6

      And on the eighth day, God created the pause button.

    • @charlesronk2989
      @charlesronk2989 3 роки тому

      That is what I thought. I could look at eachphoto for a few minutes. Heck they are only up for a few seconds.

  • @joansmith6092
    @joansmith6092 7 років тому +39

    The oldest American photograph taken was in 1839.

  • @irishtino1595
    @irishtino1595 6 років тому +12

    Great photos, many of where I live. One suggestion, slow down the time between photos. I wanted to view details, but 5 seconds was frustrating. Thanks again.

  • @Mr.56Goldtop
    @Mr.56Goldtop 10 років тому +42

    This is really awsome stuff! Some of these photos are crystal clear. And some were taken only a few years after the Alamo! Unbeliveable!

    • @platter1000
      @platter1000 7 років тому

      THEY ARE MOST LIKELY TOUCHED UP PHOTOS. THINK ABOUT IT

    • @arias6720
      @arias6720 5 років тому +2

      Damn you Austin and his American followers , traitor to the Mexican Government.

    • @corygriffiths4394
      @corygriffiths4394 2 роки тому

      I have some pictures of some of my ancestors that would’ve been probably in their 40s whenever the Battle of the Alamo was because they were born in the 1780s and 1790s.

    • @Mr.56Goldtop
      @Mr.56Goldtop 2 роки тому +1

      @@corygriffiths4394 1836.

  • @johnstanton5164
    @johnstanton5164 8 років тому +222

    Would love to time travel.....Just imagine......

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 років тому

      *****
      You mean: Nevermind. Not Nevermine.

    • @johnstanton5164
      @johnstanton5164 8 років тому +8

      +CA Catr .....No....He meant...nevermine....you silly boy.

    • @GamePlayWithNolan
      @GamePlayWithNolan 8 років тому +10

      I would go to the 1800's and just be like, "Sup, I got some inventions, this is a refrigerator, I just call it a fridge, this is a cell phone, I just call it a phone, this is a television set, I just call it tv or hd tv, this is my Lamborghini, I just call it lambo, this is my computer, but I just call it pc or gaming rig, this is my trumpet, you guys already know what a trumpet is, these are my Sony headphones, I just call them headphones, and this is my drone, I just call it quad copter, I use it to get good videos of you guys and yeah, that's about it."

    • @JohnnyReb
      @JohnnyReb 7 років тому +4

      The 1938 Gettysburg Civil War Veterans Reunion.

    • @JohnnyReb
      @JohnnyReb 7 років тому +4

      You might win a shit load of awards from the sientific community of the 1840's.

  • @martinjavinez9389
    @martinjavinez9389 5 років тому +33

    Some Bowhead whales from that time are still alive and kicking.

  • @mindofmayhem.
    @mindofmayhem. 5 років тому +54

    The descriptions are up forever, but the actual pictures no more then 1 second. Crazy!!

    • @NoCreativeNameGirl
      @NoCreativeNameGirl 4 роки тому +2

      Looking for this comment! That was so annoying and thought only I noticed. WTF, putting up the stupid description for 10 minutes and picture for 1 second. lol

    • @JostVanWair
      @JostVanWair 2 роки тому

      Pause the video when you see the photo then

  • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
    @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 років тому +29

    If time travel was ever discovered, I always thought it’d be interesting to go back 200 years and grab a couple of my great grandparents and bring them back to now and give them a tour. Their heads would probably explode.

  • @swampratsrants501
    @swampratsrants501 4 роки тому +12

    Wow. This is now one of my favorite videos ever. Thank you for keeping history alive.

    • @corygriffiths4394
      @corygriffiths4394 2 роки тому

      A few of my ancestors that I have pictures of would’ve been old whenever these photos were taken because they were born in the 1780s.

  • @wolfpak8228
    @wolfpak8228 7 років тому +72

    Real history for the few of us left who love America

    • @kimsteinke713
      @kimsteinke713 6 років тому +1

      Love it

    • @jasonraczkowski6001
      @jasonraczkowski6001 5 років тому +6

      Wolf Pak I'm a democrat and I love this country

    • @RichWeigel
      @RichWeigel 5 років тому

      Ideal of a human being LOL. OK Jim.

    • @arias6720
      @arias6720 5 років тому

      jim n. wei Submissive.

    • @mr12aT
      @mr12aT 5 років тому

      Are you referring to Native Americans?

  • @klmullins65
    @klmullins65 6 років тому +10

    Great photographs! But I do wish the images were shown longer, so we could check them out without having to pause. And maybe some music from that time period, like Steven Foster would be cool!

  • @MrPolandball
    @MrPolandball 6 років тому +11

    Kinda even more interesting how you can actually see bit of color in these photos.

  • @bentleyr00d
    @bentleyr00d 7 років тому +34

    One thing Americans seem to have lost is a certain aesthetic sensibility. In old photos like these, homes and other buildings are almost always symmetrical (or at least balanced) in their fenestration, and they're generally neat and we'll kept.

    • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
      @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 років тому +4

      They didn’t have you tube to consume all their time.

    • @htown2898
      @htown2898 4 роки тому

      The beer cans are symmetric on my street

    • @BamberdittoPingpong
      @BamberdittoPingpong 4 роки тому +2

      The architecture and fashion was definitely more fancy and better looking than what we have today.

    • @automnejoy5308
      @automnejoy5308 4 роки тому +2

      I have no clue what you are talking about. New buildings and homes today are symmetrical to a robotic degree. I can't think of a single new building that is asymmetrical. We can argue style, but symmetry? You're wrong.

    • @kkarllwt
      @kkarllwt Рік тому

      Fenestration. I know, what is the point of having an education unless you use it once in a while.

  • @seanmc7128
    @seanmc7128 Рік тому +4

    I'd love to go back and see in person how things really were back then

  • @MichaelFay63
    @MichaelFay63 7 років тому +29

    Love old photos. I live in New Zealand and I'ts amazing how in such a short period the USA became so sophisticated and vigorous. Oh that we could go back further. Mustn't grumble though!

  • @wdd3141
    @wdd3141 6 років тому +4

    What's remarkable to me is that while photography began in the 1820s in France, by 1850 apparently photosensitive emulsions were sensitive enough to take pictures even of animals that were in motion, without a blur of motion. Not much earlier, photographic plates had to be left exposing for hours to preserve an image, and people couldn't be photographed.

  • @shadygrady3030
    @shadygrady3030 7 років тому +5

    Great photos! I suggest you upload this with accompanying music of the period.

  • @filip4900
    @filip4900 8 років тому +10

    3:45 amazing quality

  • @abc64pan
    @abc64pan 8 років тому +18

    One man watching early American photographs uploaded to UA-cam and enjoying the experience! (2016)

    • @BamberdittoPingpong
      @BamberdittoPingpong 7 років тому +1

      And I'm reading your comment in the future. (2017)

    • @cassidy99ful
      @cassidy99ful 7 років тому

      And I'm Reading Your comment in the Future. (July 20, 2017)

    • @thecritigamer4321
      @thecritigamer4321 6 років тому +1

      Fuck you. (9th feb, 2018)

  • @Michael-it6gb
    @Michael-it6gb Рік тому +1

    These are the photos I'm interested in finding. Mostly we see Photographs of portraits where the person sat for 40 seconds from 1840s. Here we see a glimpse of the past captured on a regular street of that time. It's amazing. Great video.

  • @bruceduece1
    @bruceduece1 8 років тому +48

    Daguerreotypes can reveal remarkable detail. I have a small collection, and when I show them to people, I put them under a powerful magnifying glass. They are more precise than a digital photo. Magnify them enough and you can see button holes and even the pores on peoples skins. Photography has improved through the years, but the very first ones produced the greatest detail!

    • @Frodojack
      @Frodojack 8 років тому +3

      +bruceduece1
      I was noticing how the background was as sharp and detailed as the foreground. If we could only get modern security photography to be that detailed, think of all the crimes that could be solved!

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 років тому +5

      Frodojack
      Off-topic: you wouldn't have to solve so many crimes if you just taught people and their youngsters MORALS.

    • @Frodojack
      @Frodojack 8 років тому +3

      CA Catr
      That goes without saying, but often even when taught morals they don't necessarily listen.

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 років тому +6

      Frodojack
      The social pressure (sometimes called "the social girdle") that used to be in place that helped people adhere to morals is now gone. -- That goes without saying too.

    • @Frodojack
      @Frodojack 8 років тому +4

      CA Catr
      And when kids go to college their morals get thrown under bus anyways.

  • @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039
    @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 5 років тому +8

    A moment in time frozen forever. Absolutely brilliant thanks.

  • @dededenver9560
    @dededenver9560 6 років тому +18

    All I can think of is how badly everyone smelled.

    • @milo5524
      @milo5524 6 років тому +2

      Ah ah! I was thinkin' the same

    • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
      @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 років тому +3

      We smell the same. Our noses haven’t evolved that much in 150 years, nor learned how to use them better.

    • @jejfcjsksksw1209
      @jejfcjsksksw1209 5 років тому

      Not respect our great great great grandpa or grandma

  • @jeffreyd508
    @jeffreyd508 8 років тому +49

    I read that more pics are taken every MINUTE today than all of the 1800s. ...probably 85% selfies.....sigh..

    • @tjw3999
      @tjw3999 7 років тому +8

      and in 100 years no one will give a shit

    • @Chrai0n
      @Chrai0n 5 років тому +1

      Duck face > Top hats and canes

    • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
      @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 років тому +1

      The remaining 15% are probably worthless as well. Food, idiots at Walmart, etc.

    • @HawkinaBox
      @HawkinaBox 5 років тому +1

      @@ALRIGHTYTHEN. But food selfies are better than stupid people selfies. lmao

    • @stlbusker3025
      @stlbusker3025 4 роки тому +1

      Well, some people take alot of selfies, but many do not. I have never taken a selfie once in my lifetime. I would suppose that if a person were insecure, they have to try and convince themselves that they have something to offer the opposite sex. Of course, if an individual is well grounded, and has a solid education, their maturity, and standing, along with their well earned fortunes, such as a nice house, automobile, and hefty bank account, will attract the opposite a whole lot faster, than trying to convince someone how attractive they are. A secure individual doesn't have time for such nonsense as taking selfies!

  • @RedcoatsReturn
    @RedcoatsReturn 5 років тому +15

    Incredible, before our very eyes, images from 170 years ago! I would love to go back and see these things.....live!

    • @ihopcsx
      @ihopcsx Рік тому

      Same here

    • @tinydancergirl4598
      @tinydancergirl4598 Рік тому

      One of my most constant wishes, to be able to do that for any period in history- as long as I always knew I’d be able to get back!

    • @Miki_big_red_machine
      @Miki_big_red_machine 10 місяців тому +1

      Some oldest photos are 180+ years ago thats before many technologies was invited photos and camera are too old

  • @TheRhNegative
    @TheRhNegative 8 років тому +26

    Wow! These are utterly beautiful pictures. So fascinating. I watched this twice!!! An entirely different world just under 2 hundred years ago...

    • @Keisha7612
      @Keisha7612 8 років тому +2

      yes very different

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 років тому

      It was an entirely different world 104 years ago.

    • @Keisha7612
      @Keisha7612 8 років тому +1

      CA Catr
      very

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 років тому +4

      Keisha Cole​
      I can relate to the era of my parent's young adulthood, the 1940's. But going further back than that, especially as far back as the Twenties, is too difficult "to see" in my mind's eye. I know things about the Twenties, but I can't relate to it, except for the tremendous economic pride the people had in their new-found affluence, and how it changed their attitudes, demeanor, and morals. That I can relate to, because it happened in the Eighties too. We thought we were "SO HOT"/"Cool"/financially empowered, and when people have that attitude, they let their false pride take their morals into the gutter. Before the Twenties, everything was different. And especially before 1912.

    • @justathought973
      @justathought973 7 років тому +1

      Duh! of course things were different but that doesn't equate to "better". Why are you so hung up on "morals" whose "morals", yours?

  • @cancergurl6998
    @cancergurl6998 2 роки тому +1

    Imagine seeing yourself in a past life in an old photo.

  • @deniset2115
    @deniset2115 7 років тому +2

    At 5:43 the man standing behind Fredrick Douglas is Quaker abolitionist and humanitarian Levi Coffin aka Grandfather of the Underground Railroad. Also notice the Quaker women, it appears to be a notable Quaker Monthly Meeting.

  • @cathyburns750
    @cathyburns750 3 роки тому +2

    Beautiful old pictures of a simpler time. Thank you so much for sharing! Really interesting!

  • @maxbluto
    @maxbluto 3 роки тому +1

    Very impressed by the picture quality

  • @bracken1000
    @bracken1000 7 років тому +8

    At 7:38, you can see that young men in the 1840's had long hair. Long hair on men was common then. In fact, much more common than today.

  • @omegaman1409
    @omegaman1409 4 роки тому +2

    I have seen civil war pictures but these predate that. I can only imagine 180 years ago the place where I live was a wilderness. Remarkable.

  • @regandevereaux5079
    @regandevereaux5079 7 років тому +5

    Wow! What an amazing collection. Thank you so much for gathering /composing /posting these wonderful frozen windows into our country's past. The Frederick Douglas with the Abolitionists at convention was very special. I know he was born in rural, eastern Maryland, where one can still visit his birthplace & farmhouse. In your picture (daguerreotype?) he looks remarkably Native American. I wonder if anyone has done a serious genetic-ancestral history of Frederick Douglas' family?
    Thanks again! Regan Devereaux

  • @savedbygodsgrace.9058
    @savedbygodsgrace.9058 5 років тому +2

    Thank you for sharing. .i enjoyed it. .

  • @NUSORCA
    @NUSORCA 6 років тому +10

    A description reading task...plz slow down in the images part

  • @ososwamp
    @ososwamp 7 років тому +37

    The odors of that era were probably awful.

    • @lephilosopheinconnu3952
      @lephilosopheinconnu3952 5 років тому +1

      @T OB Ok. When was the time when people would throw feces and garbage to the streets ?

    • @raymondbarr4854
      @raymondbarr4854 5 років тому

      @DuncanAndFriends Pranks 9o

    • @caspence56
      @caspence56 4 роки тому +8

      Everyone smelled the same, so it probably didn't matter and probably wasn't as noticeable.

    • @wanderinghistorian
      @wanderinghistorian 4 роки тому +3

      Everywhere probably just smelled like a farm with lots of livestock. I grew up on one. You get used to the smells. To this day I'm not bothered by the smell of any animal we raised when I was growing up - but if it's an animal we didn't raise - the smell bothers me.

    • @ryann8680
      @ryann8680 4 роки тому +3

      no worse than a bunch of hippies

  • @edgarallanpoe1822
    @edgarallanpoe1822 4 роки тому +2

    Unbelievable that’s incredible how daguerreotype footage can be that handy and US at that remote period of time so fabulous

  • @ChildOL
    @ChildOL 7 років тому +9

    Also, never seen so many people wearing top hats before

    • @dennythomas8887
      @dennythomas8887 6 років тому +3

      they were the "baseball caps" of the period. ;-p

  • @wandacarpenter4555
    @wandacarpenter4555 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos!!!❤

  • @wholeNwon
    @wholeNwon 7 років тому +5

    Some of the locations in Phila. were still recognizable when I lived there.

  • @IrisBatDavid
    @IrisBatDavid 9 років тому +8

    Nice! It would be really cool if you could compare "past and present" if some of those streets or buildings still exist. A few have been done from Gettysburg ambro/dags...really nice, too.

    • @platter1000
      @platter1000 7 років тому

      THAT IS EASY ENOUGH TO DO. SOMEONE JUST NEEDS TO TAKE SOME MODERN DAY PHOTOS AND PUT THEM SIDE BY SIDE BUT WHO HAS THE TIME THESE DAYS

    • @irisheyesofbelfast
      @irisheyesofbelfast 4 роки тому

      The St. Louis photos I can vouch that those buildings still exist and I live right around the corner from that first St. Louis photo. How cool to see that! I'm an RN and kind of slammed at work right now, but next off day if it isn't raining I will try to get photos of those same areas and show comparisons in a video.

  • @d.chance
    @d.chance 4 роки тому

    These photos are really fabulous! This set has been posted for quite a while, but I just found it. Glad I did!

  • @musgrave6886
    @musgrave6886 8 років тому +16

    ...superbly crafted presentation of how people really looked like 160+ years ago...i'm most fascinated with 1840s photos because they are so rare & eerie...

    • @uncleruckus1160
      @uncleruckus1160 6 років тому

      Future Marine if you're a person of color you wouldn't 😂

    • @josephineroe8424
      @josephineroe8424 6 років тому +4

      uncle ruckus
      Frederick Douglass and other black people are pictured here, and they actually appear relatively happy.

    • @bobbyfrancis8957
      @bobbyfrancis8957 5 років тому

      My 1938 big penny is older than these photos...

    • @bobbyfrancis8957
      @bobbyfrancis8957 5 років тому

      I meant 1838...

    • @henryosborne7052
      @henryosborne7052 4 роки тому

      uncle ruckus
      Man, You’re obsessed

  • @romevicki1
    @romevicki1 8 років тому +1

    Thank you so much for putting this video together....I enjoyed it very much.

  • @lisathuban8969
    @lisathuban8969 7 років тому +3

    Nice job! I have not seen many of these photos.

  • @robinblankenship9234
    @robinblankenship9234 4 роки тому +1

    It is really daunting to see the reality of what people were able and willing to do in the way of construction of buildings in a time before electric power equipment, precise measuring devices and other necessary items.

    • @nayah9423
      @nayah9423 4 роки тому

      Check out JonLevi UA-cam videos and find out!

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 5 років тому +3

    And this is how you tell a nation’s story...

  • @thefreedomlass
    @thefreedomlass 6 років тому +6

    Amazing journey through time.

  • @garymorris1856
    @garymorris1856 2 роки тому +1

    It is fascinating and wonderful to view these photos from over 170 years ago. Thank you for posting this

  • @albertmiller3082
    @albertmiller3082 6 років тому +13

    Fascinating photos...the descriptions were onscreen at LEAST 2x as long as the actual images they describe.
    The photos are the point, & should have been visible 3x longer than they were. I did not need to spend seven minutes reading descriptions for images onscreen for three minutes total.

    • @ba1696
      @ba1696 2 роки тому

      bla bla bla, just enjoy the work the op has put into this vid

    • @albertmiller3082
      @albertmiller3082 2 роки тому

      @@ba1696 constructive input from one is “blah blah blah” to another. As you will, Pilgrim.

  • @billbrimmer1739
    @billbrimmer1739 8 років тому +88

    I'm happy to be living in this modern era.

    • @nymuseum4918
      @nymuseum4918 8 років тому +6

      I agree. Do not now have the same levels of diseases, concentrated political power, widespread gang power, inherited social placement by birth as the only means to education military and political power, ad nauseam

    • @jeffreyd508
      @jeffreyd508 8 років тому +14

      All eras were modern for their day. This era is an 8 track 200 years from now. Jealous of people 30,000+ years from now. Imagine being able to see vids and pics from that long ago!

    • @eloyex
      @eloyex 7 років тому +6

      very smart comment Mr !!!
      my dad lost his mother when kid for a terrible outbreak ...
      saw the war. the famine in europe. Had to emigrate with no money at all
      and had a terrible time for many years.
      He thinks like you.. He is 85
      He say modern times, are by FAR better than the best old times.
      a true believer of the future.

    • @martinezroger9862
      @martinezroger9862 7 років тому +1

      Mr McMahon ,FDR proved that Socialism destroys a third world country! Know your history!

    • @whiff1962
      @whiff1962 7 років тому +2

      None Given Your history of America at the time, with notions of "concentrated political power" (whatever that is supposed to communicate), "widespread" gang power, etc., is no more true for then, as it is, today, with a federal govt. that has grown many fold, and which controls more of our lives than ever before. Moreover, America had never been about "inherited social placement", like it was in the old world, with its class system.

  • @ballinglikechoji6558
    @ballinglikechoji6558 7 років тому +2

    @0:20 I skateboard on that street weekly and it's so damn weird to think that I skateboard where every president and lawmaker has walked...

  • @ki-adimundi8695
    @ki-adimundi8695 3 роки тому

    Thank you Chubachus for posting these video's. I have almost watched all of them and am seriously hooked on these old foto's!
    My kindest regards to you my friend

  • @michaelmichael9940
    @michaelmichael9940 7 років тому +1

    Amazing!! I love these old photos

  • @Appleholic1
    @Appleholic1 4 роки тому +1

    3:44 what an amazingly clear photograph that 1848 is.

  • @grifce
    @grifce 7 років тому +13

    love historic photo but you move to fast through to the next you dont have time to really look at them

    • @aaronhurst4379
      @aaronhurst4379 7 років тому +2

      You can pause the video to look at the photos for longer

    • @thewiseone629
      @thewiseone629 6 років тому +3

      grifce There's a pause button ya know lol

    • @shantolion1576
      @shantolion1576 4 роки тому

      Slowdown the speed

  • @scotnick59
    @scotnick59 7 років тому +4

    "fascinating" would be an understatement here!

  • @jimmymags6516
    @jimmymags6516 Рік тому

    What a privilege to view these photos . Thank you for sharing .

  • @patriotares
    @patriotares 9 років тому +19

    Windows to the past.

  • @suzycreamchez123
    @suzycreamchez123 4 роки тому +1

    Cool vid, but please next time pause longer okkn the photos. Give us a chance to really look at them. Thanks

  • @tymesho
    @tymesho 7 років тому +2

    imagine the sheer enthusiasm of knowing your part of a great new "beginning"....

  • @braddelany6234
    @braddelany6234 5 років тому +1

    at 9:23, obviously New Hay, South Carolina

  • @stephaniefrazee3955
    @stephaniefrazee3955 2 роки тому

    Love the photos but the descriptions are up longer than the photos are in this montage and it's hard to even get a decent look at the photo before it flashes to the next description without hitting pause on each one.

  • @matildabond..2390
    @matildabond..2390 5 років тому +1

    I would like a time machine,to visit certain events in time,there are so many .

    • @irisheyesofbelfast
      @irisheyesofbelfast 4 роки тому

      Ha! I just said similar right above your comment. Did you ever think there would be a time in which we had access to the entire world right in the palm of our hands?

  • @gasaholic47
    @gasaholic47 7 років тому +2

    The canal lock looks exactly like the type used along the Erie Canal I live in Syracuse, and Rochester prior to that, and these types of locks are a common sight along parts of the canal.

    • @josephineroe8424
      @josephineroe8424 6 років тому

      True, but they would have been built considerably earlier.

  • @rickilynnwolfe8357
    @rickilynnwolfe8357 4 роки тому

    I love looking at history and these photos are lovely .Thanks so much for posting

  • @suekatz
    @suekatz 4 роки тому

    These priceless old photos need to be restored and colorized before they are lost forever.

  • @karalianisthmus8548
    @karalianisthmus8548 3 роки тому

    Why not have the captions beneath the photos at the same time? And leave the pics up twice as long to really observe them.

  • @peteandrepete528
    @peteandrepete528 5 років тому +1

    Some of these pictures turned out pretty good for the time they were made.I enjoy these pre automobile photos.

  • @harryjames3905
    @harryjames3905 5 років тому +1

    The Tioga train at six minutes and 54 seconds of the video is on Richmond Street in Philadelphia south or east of Allegheny Avenue.

  • @williamwyer8520
    @williamwyer8520 6 років тому +1

    Thanks being into photography myself found this very interesting

  • @MichaelAuthorAllAges
    @MichaelAuthorAllAges 3 роки тому

    Wow. Very coo! My dad and my brother are big history buffs. I enjoy history too. Also, I make daily recordings for the elderly, featuring wonderful old songs. And that's history, too. I will really look forward to watching this video in its entirety tonight, after I finish my errands and musical recordings. Thank you so much for posting. Like, shared and subscribed. :-)

  • @dennythomas8887
    @dennythomas8887 6 років тому +33

    From a time when a mans word was his bond, and many deals were completed on a handshake. And how would I know? I'm an old fart and my great grandfather (who was around back then) and my grandfather had many great story's of the "good old days" My great grandfather was a German immigrent and made the journey from New York to Texas then a few years later to California by wagon train. Loved listening to him tell the tales of what once was.

    • @rayjr62
      @rayjr62 6 років тому +2

      LMAO. You really don't believe that 19th century folklorish crap, do you? Like all the treaties we made with native Americans, only to re-neg on our "words" later on? And let's not forget the robber Barron and the massive corruption that existed in the banking industry. What a load of shit. Man, put down the crack pipe and take off that tin foil hat.

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      @akramkomeni309 6 років тому

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      @akramkomeni309 6 років тому

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    • @pavelow67
      @pavelow67 6 років тому

      stupid

    • @joeymama4666
      @joeymama4666 6 років тому +5

      Tysons Accosta
      The government broke almost every treaty they made with Indians. The fact no one ever points out, though, is that the Indians broke most of the treaties they'd agreed to as well

  • @blasterelforg7276
    @blasterelforg7276 5 років тому +1

    Cool pic of the Grand Junction Railway locomotive

  • @dynodon8592
    @dynodon8592 9 років тому +2

    Great post

  • @kenb.1829
    @kenb.1829 7 років тому +1

    I was hoping for random photos of young men standing on street corners, singing acepella, longing for a doo wop career. Oh, wait. Wrong century.

  • @raindanse8466
    @raindanse8466 4 роки тому

    1839 is considered the birth year for photography. Although the art is a bit older, this was the year photography was officially recognized by the Academy of Science, in France. August 19, 1839 the French government bought the “invention” from Lois Daguerre. Exposure time was long and took up to 8 hours to a few days (talk about holding a pose). Daguerre invented a new method of exposure using Silver Nitrate and copper. The method was called “Daguerreotype” process. The word “photography” literally means, ‘drawing with light’. Greek word ‘phos’ meaning “light” and ‘graphe’ meaning “drawing or writing”. (I took Intro to Photography 101 this summer 2020, got an “A”. Love the class).

  • @Dani92670
    @Dani92670 4 роки тому +1

    I used to go into Girard bank with my mother as a toddler in the early 70s and it makes me sad they destroyed all of the old buildings on purpose, to keep the truth from us.

    • @nayah9423
      @nayah9423 4 роки тому

      Roger That Check out JonLevi UA-cam videos and find out!

  • @s1234pro
    @s1234pro 6 років тому +2

    I love the fashions. Those hats!

  • @longdogt6724
    @longdogt6724 Рік тому

    These photos are amazing, but please allow a longer time to view them, they seem to scroll to fast for a good look.

  • @itsmovinfast
    @itsmovinfast 5 років тому +1

    Great photos. I did not know photography was this old. Thanks for posting these.

  • @dudleydoright9473
    @dudleydoright9473 4 роки тому +1

    1848 is right before my great great grandparents left Pennsylvania and head to Chicago were they settled and it's been 170 years and family still lives there.

  • @robbybonfire9944
    @robbybonfire9944 6 років тому +7

    Amazing - no internet, no telephone, no TV, no autos, no tattoos, no McDonald's on every corner, no inflated currency, no indoor plumbing, plus the railroads and steamship lines were king. My great grandfather made a fortune investing in them - 50 million tax free dollars estate in 1900.

    • @wanderinghistorian
      @wanderinghistorian 4 роки тому

      There were tattoos. It's just putting ink under the skin. Primitive man was able to create tattoos. Granted very few of these white people had any. The native Americans had tattoos, though.
      Also, while 99% didn't have indoor plumbing, the richest class from times going back as far as ancient Rome had indoor plumbing and running water. In general the sentiment is correct, though.

  • @MPresheva
    @MPresheva 4 роки тому +1

    So, the first photo-camera appeared to be in Philadephia.

  • @sharendonnelly7770
    @sharendonnelly7770 2 роки тому

    Amazing how just 10 years (previous video) later photography improved so much!

  • @maxsalazar8222
    @maxsalazar8222 7 років тому +1

    These are remarkable. Sometimes I like to imagine, what if videos of these people or even the Civil War were taken on an iPhone in Full HD. Obviously it didn't exist but just imagine all these 1840s-1860s pictures in High Definition Like we do today ..

  • @TayDays1128
    @TayDays1128 7 років тому

    At 1:19,a photograph of Ulysses Grant and Alexander Hays is displayed.
    Not only were they friends then,meeting during their service in the Mexican-American war,but had continued to stay in contact even 20 years later during the civil war.
    Both men had served in the Union army together,but sadly,Hays was killed in service during battle.

  • @ih2022
    @ih2022 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing to see history. Wish there were pictures of my ancestors like this.

  • @davidk6271
    @davidk6271 5 років тому +1

    Very interesting but it scrolls too fast

  • @BrandyTexas214
    @BrandyTexas214 4 роки тому +1

    We did a family tree and one of the ancestors fought in that war.. he survived.. 2:03

  • @roseypeach8363
    @roseypeach8363 3 роки тому

    The picture at 5:47 shows Frederick Douglass at a Quaker monthly meeting. The man and woman sitting at the table are taking the minutes of the monthly meeting. The man standing behind Frederick Douglass is Levi Coffin aka the grandfather of the underground railroad.

  • @aroundtheworld1692
    @aroundtheworld1692 4 роки тому

    The world was so much more peaceful back then, no lawlessness, people are not lovers of self but relational and kind. The family didn't break down, parents play their roles. The world was safe, kids can play and run in their neighborhood. The world has changed so much.

  • @jaskoe1
    @jaskoe1 7 років тому +5

    So cool!