The song is “Liberty Bell March” by John Philip Sousa, better known as the theme to Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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The song is “Liberty Bell March” by John Philip Sousa, better known as the theme to Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Love this stuff.
Wow
That oldest photograph was taken the same year John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died.
Amazing pictures, but 6+ minutes of that music can lead to the desire to commit suicide.
Sorry, but that first self-portrait is not of John Johnson, but of Robert Cornelius of Philadelphia.
What an incredible invention was photography. The ability to capture a unique place in time and space, that will/can never be repeated. Thank you to whoever put this together for providing informative captions to locate and put context to the images. Nothing worse than random unidentified images, where the subject is, in effect, lost to knowledge, other than being just an 'old image'.
日本人いないの？。
I'm sort glad I didn't have to deal with John Quincy Adams. I probably would have pissed myself.
Fascinating stuff.
I did not realize they had the ability to take a color picture back in 18,00's
James Clerk Maxwell was ever so slightly more than a photographer!
Photos from 1700s ?!
No matter what’s going on,they all look scary.
This kind of reminds me of those "I've shaken the hand that's shaken the hand of…" stories, or like how President (1841-1845) John Tyler still has a couple of living grandsons.
For what it's worth, I've shaken the hand (my late grandfather's) that has shaken the hand of someone born in the 18th Century.
Brazil's emperor Pedro II did take selfies in the 1880's.
The past are the best
John Johnson was quite handsome.
No smiling faces
Early in the nineteenth century, lacking the advanced technology of the bridle, horse owners led their animals around by their tongues.
Boy, it's amazing how you learn something new every day.
Hello John Johnson!
Amazing, truly amazing:-) Thanks very much for this posting, which I come across 9 years after it was posted:-) Regards, Michael M. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, 6th April 2019.
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17th century photos
Robert Cornelius, not John Johnson.
Interesting collection
FAKE PICTURES
It’s amazing how there are pictures that are actually quite good like the shoe shiner and the Paris buildings, that’s a good quality picture from the mid 1800s
The picture of Harrison is not real. It's a picture of an oil painting. The real picture was lost.
To think there could actually still be older photos out there… you never know. The world is far too vast
Part of me wishes I lived back then 😢
Contradiction, oldest photo 1790's, oldest surviving 1825, permanent 1826. Then why isn't 1790 oldest or if disputed why not 1825? Man leading horse 1825 but oldest of person 1838, isn't a man a person? Dorothy Catherine Draper 1st woman to be photographed, caption says 1st daguerreotype of the human face in existence, not 1st woman. William Henry Harrison 1st President taken 1841, John Quincy Adams 1st sitting President 1843, was Harrison standing? Not sure which one is the 1st, am I missing something?
There is a known photo of Constanze Mozart. That's Mozarts widow. I don't know if it's real but it's strange to think what memories she would have of her husband all those years later.
These guys never would have thought they would make it on youtube someday. 😃😃😃😉😉😉
First Selfie guy is kinda cute. (no necro…)
These pictures still look better than android
The photograph shown at 00:00:36 was taken on the 18th century. The 18th century began in 1700 and ended at 1799.
My favorite old photo is the Duke of Wellington.