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Ran into some really cool, interesting pics, posting them full size so everyone can play :)
Without doing an 'image search' ;) -- does anyone know of, or care to guess, any information about these pics?
--all for now...
http://www.engraver1.com/stuff/picc1a.jpg
http://www.engraver1.com/stuff/picc2a.jpg
http://www.engraver1.com/stuff/picc3a.jpg
The first one is the earliest known photograph of a human being who was seriously pissed off when he was told how long he had to sit still for the exposure to take.
The second one is the first photograph ever taken, period.
The third one, I wasn’t around for.
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Originally Posted by doug dawson
I think the second one is in France, just from the look. The third might be some famous place from the civil war. Picket fence makes it in the USA.
Bil lD
The first picture is John Quincy Adams.
No idea on the other two.
Dawson is half-ish right on 2 accounts,
Dufour is correct, 2nd pic is France-
Anderson is correct, 1st pic is John Quincy Adams,
No one's even close on 3rd pic :)
Dawson also hit on the 'other' significance of these pictures...
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http://www.engraver1.com/stuff/picc1c.jpg
http://www.engraver1.com/stuff/picc2c.jpg
http://www.engraver1.com/stuff/picc3b.jpg
#3 has a circle fence so i will say it is the first auto race track.
Bill
Supposedly the 3rd photo is the earliest know picture of New York City. More Specifically Manhattan. The road in the foreground eventually became Broadway. There are detractors of this
Interesting read about how New York City was leveled after that photo. I bet that hill is leveled now.
Bill D.
Sacramento California was raised about ten feet to reduce flooding around 1866.
San Francisco tried the same grid plan but without the leveling. That is why so many streets are very steep slopes. Sometimes truck drivers get stuck trying to crest a hill.
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/gridplan05
Interesting article about how the terrain of NYC was leveled slightly _before_ the third picture was taken:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Dufour
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/s...sultPosition=1