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This is a list of people identified as being among the earliest photographic subjects, sorted by date of birth.
The first widely available photographic portraiture technique was the daguerreotype, invented in 1839 by Louis Daguerre. Tens of thousands survive today in public collections. The first paper negative process, in which more than one copy could be produced, was the calotype, invented in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot. The photographic era had begun. The question is, which sitters that we can document today hold the distinction of being the earliest born human subjects for which photographic likenesses survive?
If a centenarian was photographed shortly after the invention of these processes, it is possible that the earliest born human subject with a photographic likeness could have been born in the 1730s.
Image | Who | Dates | Country | Photographer | Process | Date of image | Where held | |
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Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician and diplomat | 29 January 1761 – 12 August 1849 | USA | Mathew Brady | Sixth plate daguerreotype, gold toned | between 1844 and 1849 | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[1] | ||
Hugh Brady, general | 29 July 1768 – 15 April 1851 | USA | Mathew Brady | Half plate daguerreotype, gold toned | between 1844 and 1851 | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[2] | ||
Renty Taylor, Congo-born slave, subject of Louis Agassiz | c1775 – after 1850 | USA | Louis Agassiz | Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerreotypes, 1850 | Peabody Museum, Harvard University | |||
Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian minister, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe | 12 October 1775 – 10 January 1863 | USA | Mathew Brady | Glass, wet collodion | between 1855 and 1863 | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[3] | ||
William Yarrell, zoologist | 3 June 1784 – 1 September 1856 | England | Unknown | 'Hand-tinted photographic portrait' | 1840 | unclear[4] | ||
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, photographer | 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851 | France | Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot | Daguerreotype | 1844 | George Eastman House, Rochester, New York | ||
Roger S. Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut | 1793-1863[5] | USA | Mathew Brady | Daguerreotype | between 1844 and 1860 | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[6] | George Eastman House, Rochester, New York | |
Rev. Henry Anthon, clergyman | 1795-1861[7] | USA | Mathew Brady | Daguerreotype | 1843 or earlier | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[8]
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George Edmund Badger, Senator from the state of North Carolina. | 17 April 1795 – 11 May 1866 | USA | Mathew Brady | Half plate daguerreotype, gold toned | between 1844 and 1860 | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[9] | ||
Category:Photographic processes dating from the 19th century Category:19th-century photography
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