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

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  • @Chubachus
    @Chubachus  7 лет назад +29

    Part 2: ruclips.net/video/b9-yXjyISkc/видео.html
    The earliest 3D photos of the United States: ruclips.net/video/9KLv-wHD5a8/видео.html

  • @bracken1000
    @bracken1000 7 лет назад +499

    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 лет назад +72

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

    • @justjess-zl3pm
      @justjess-zl3pm 5 лет назад +15

      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 лет назад +12

      And people did not dress in all black.

    • @HawkinaBox
      @HawkinaBox 5 лет назад +5

      I always think about that.

    • @meem1731
      @meem1731 5 лет назад +11

      People didn't understood your metaphor

  • @cmay878
    @cmay878 8 лет назад +258

    in a time when taking a photograph was an event.

  • @FORRESTJASPER
    @FORRESTJASPER 6 лет назад +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 лет назад +1

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

    • @mrmann5053
      @mrmann5053 2 года назад +1

      @@wokeeye6441 why are you saying all that?

    • @westcarter3862
      @westcarter3862 Год назад +2

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

  • @ktkat1949
    @ktkat1949 8 лет назад +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 года назад

      Naturally they have descendants alive today.

    • @mikaeladonges9102
      @mikaeladonges9102 4 года назад +2

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

    • @mikaeladonges9102
      @mikaeladonges9102 4 года назад +1

      Especially the guys at 7:38

    • @Nullybk
      @Nullybk Год назад

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

    • @karenharrison885
      @karenharrison885 Год назад

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

  • @dtadeo2006
    @dtadeo2006 6 лет назад +132

    the frikkin captions stays on longer than the pics!!

    • @mysticalmargaret6105
      @mysticalmargaret6105 4 года назад +1

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

    • @oiudatropen9548
      @oiudatropen9548 4 года назад

      this is not very well done.

    • @pobunny508
      @pobunny508 3 года назад +6

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

    • @charlesronk2989
      @charlesronk2989 3 года назад

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

  • @johnstanton5164
    @johnstanton5164 8 лет назад +222

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

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 лет назад

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

    • @johnstanton5164
      @johnstanton5164 8 лет назад +8

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

    • @GamePlayWithNolan
      @GamePlayWithNolan 8 лет назад +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 8 лет назад +4

      The 1938 Gettysburg Civil War Veterans Reunion.

    • @JohnnyReb
      @JohnnyReb 8 лет назад +4

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

  • @joansmith6092
    @joansmith6092 7 лет назад +39

    The oldest American photograph taken was in 1839.

  • @chewyduck1355
    @chewyduck1355 4 года назад +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😊

  • @mindofmayhem.
    @mindofmayhem. 5 лет назад +54

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

    • @NoCreativeNameGirl
      @NoCreativeNameGirl 4 года назад +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 года назад

      Pause the video when you see the photo then

  • @irishtino1595
    @irishtino1595 6 лет назад +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 лет назад +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 лет назад

      THEY ARE MOST LIKELY TOUCHED UP PHOTOS. THINK ABOUT IT

    • @arias6720
      @arias6720 5 лет назад +2

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

    • @corygriffiths4394
      @corygriffiths4394 2 года назад

      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 года назад +1

      @@corygriffiths4394 1836.

  • @martinjavinez9389
    @martinjavinez9389 5 лет назад +33

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

  • @chriss1519
    @chriss1519 7 лет назад +176

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

    • @ahmoseh3718
      @ahmoseh3718 6 лет назад +10

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

    • @xpeeriments6452
      @xpeeriments6452 5 лет назад

      Christopher Milo no it is not sorry

    • @qworky902
      @qworky902 5 лет назад +6

      Yeah, it was way too fast

    • @oveidasinclair982
      @oveidasinclair982 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

      You know how to pause the video?

  • @MichaelFay63
    @MichaelFay63 7 лет назад +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!

  • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
    @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 лет назад +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.

  • @abc64pan
    @abc64pan 8 лет назад +18

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

    • @BamberdittoPingpong
      @BamberdittoPingpong 7 лет назад +1

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

    • @cassidy99ful
      @cassidy99ful 7 лет назад

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

    • @thecritigamer4321
      @thecritigamer4321 6 лет назад +1

      Fuck you. (9th feb, 2018)

  • @klmullins65
    @klmullins65 6 лет назад +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!

  • @filip4900
    @filip4900 8 лет назад +10

    3:45 amazing quality

  • @MrPolandball
    @MrPolandball 6 лет назад +11

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

  • @wolfpak8228
    @wolfpak8228 7 лет назад +72

    Real history for the few of us left who love America

    • @kimsteinke713
      @kimsteinke713 6 лет назад +1

      Love it

    • @jasonraczkowski6001
      @jasonraczkowski6001 6 лет назад +6

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

    • @RichWeigel
      @RichWeigel 6 лет назад

      Ideal of a human being LOL. OK Jim.

    • @arias6720
      @arias6720 5 лет назад

      jim n. wei Submissive.

    • @mr12aT
      @mr12aT 5 лет назад

      Are you referring to Native Americans?

  • @jeffreyd508
    @jeffreyd508 8 лет назад +49

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

    • @tjw3999
      @tjw3999 7 лет назад +8

      and in 100 years no one will give a shit

    • @Chrai0n
      @Chrai0n 6 лет назад +1

      Duck face > Top hats and canes

    • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
      @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @HawkinaBox
      @HawkinaBox 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @stlbusker3025
      @stlbusker3025 4 года назад +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 лет назад +15

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

    • @ihopcsx
      @ihopcsx 2 года назад

      Same here

    • @tinydancergirl4598
      @tinydancergirl4598 Год назад

      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!

    • @Lord_Kratos69
      @Lord_Kratos69 11 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @TheRhNegative
    @TheRhNegative 9 лет назад +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 лет назад +2

      yes very different

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 лет назад

      It was an entirely different world 104 years ago.

    • @Keisha7612
      @Keisha7612 8 лет назад +1

      CA Catr
      very

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 лет назад +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 лет назад +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?

  • @bentleyr00d
    @bentleyr00d 7 лет назад +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 лет назад +4

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

    • @htown2898
      @htown2898 4 года назад

      The beer cans are symmetric on my street

    • @BamberdittoPingpong
      @BamberdittoPingpong 4 года назад +2

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

    • @automnejoy5308
      @automnejoy5308 4 года назад +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 Год назад

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

  • @NUSORCA
    @NUSORCA 6 лет назад +10

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

  • @swampratsrants501
    @swampratsrants501 4 года назад +12

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

    • @corygriffiths4394
      @corygriffiths4394 2 года назад

      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.

  • @bruceduece1
    @bruceduece1 8 лет назад +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 лет назад +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 лет назад +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 лет назад +3

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

    • @cacatr4495
      @cacatr4495 8 лет назад +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 лет назад +4

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

  • @dededenver9560
    @dededenver9560 6 лет назад +18

    All I can think of is how badly everyone smelled.

    • @milo5524
      @milo5524 6 лет назад +2

      Ah ah! I was thinkin' the same

    • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
      @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 лет назад +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 лет назад

      Not respect our great great great grandpa or grandma

  • @bracken1000
    @bracken1000 7 лет назад +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.

  • @seanmc7128
    @seanmc7128 2 года назад +4

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

  • @musgrave6886
    @musgrave6886 8 лет назад +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 лет назад

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

    • @josephineroe8424
      @josephineroe8424 6 лет назад +4

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

    • @bobbyfrancis8957
      @bobbyfrancis8957 5 лет назад

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

    • @bobbyfrancis8957
      @bobbyfrancis8957 5 лет назад

      I meant 1838...

    • @henryosborne7052
      @henryosborne7052 4 года назад

      uncle ruckus
      Man, You’re obsessed

  • @shadygrady3030
    @shadygrady3030 7 лет назад +5

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

  • @ChildOL
    @ChildOL 7 лет назад +9

    Also, never seen so many people wearing top hats before

    • @dennythomas8887
      @dennythomas8887 6 лет назад +3

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

  • @regandevereaux5079
    @regandevereaux5079 7 лет назад +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

  • @wholeNwon
    @wholeNwon 7 лет назад +5

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

  • @IrisBatDavid
    @IrisBatDavid 9 лет назад +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 лет назад

      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 года назад

      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.

  • @deniset2115
    @deniset2115 7 лет назад +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.

  • @garymorris1856
    @garymorris1856 3 года назад +1

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

  • @omegaman1409
    @omegaman1409 4 года назад +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.

  • @wdd3141
    @wdd3141 6 лет назад +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.

  • @cancergurl6998
    @cancergurl6998 2 года назад +1

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

  • @scotnick59
    @scotnick59 7 лет назад +4

    "fascinating" would be an understatement here!

  • @albertmiller3082
    @albertmiller3082 6 лет назад +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 года назад

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

    • @albertmiller3082
      @albertmiller3082 2 года назад

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

  • @thefreedomlass
    @thefreedomlass 7 лет назад +6

    Amazing journey through time.

  • @billbrimmer1739
    @billbrimmer1739 8 лет назад +88

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

    • @nymuseum4918
      @nymuseum4918 8 лет назад +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 лет назад +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 лет назад +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 лет назад +1

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

    • @whiff1962
      @whiff1962 7 лет назад +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.

  • @grifce
    @grifce 7 лет назад +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 лет назад +2

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

    • @thewiseone629
      @thewiseone629 6 лет назад +3

      grifce There's a pause button ya know lol

    • @shantolion1576
      @shantolion1576 4 года назад

      Slowdown the speed

  • @patriotares
    @patriotares 9 лет назад +19

    Windows to the past.

  • @ososwamp
    @ososwamp 7 лет назад +37

    The odors of that era were probably awful.

    • @lephilosopheinconnu3952
      @lephilosopheinconnu3952 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @raymondbarr4854
      @raymondbarr4854 5 лет назад

      @DuncanAndFriends Pranks 9o

    • @caspence56
      @caspence56 4 года назад +8

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

    • @wanderinghistorian
      @wanderinghistorian 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

      no worse than a bunch of hippies

  • @Appleholic1
    @Appleholic1 4 года назад +1

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

  • @ballinglikechoji6558
    @ballinglikechoji6558 7 лет назад +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...

  • @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039
    @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 5 лет назад +8

    A moment in time frozen forever. Absolutely brilliant thanks.

  • @stephaniefrazee3955
    @stephaniefrazee3955 2 года назад

    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.

  • @s1234pro
    @s1234pro 6 лет назад +2

    I love the fashions. Those hats!

  • @itsmovinfast
    @itsmovinfast 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @KitKat24531
    @KitKat24531 4 года назад +1

    Look at all those buildings, Roman architecture. A day when you could walk down the street without getting mugged or murdered. All that beautiful white culture!

  • @tymesho
    @tymesho 7 лет назад +2

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

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 5 лет назад +3

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

  • @kenb.1829
    @kenb.1829 7 лет назад +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.

  • @edgarallanpoe1822
    @edgarallanpoe1822 4 года назад +2

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

  • @leod-sigefast
    @leod-sigefast 9 лет назад +3

    6:18 a bunch of lads. What the fuck are you looking at! Great pictures!

  • @cathyburns750
    @cathyburns750 4 года назад +2

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

  • @kjellhl1975
    @kjellhl1975 7 лет назад +4

    If I had a time machine; I Would go back in the times with no cameras just to take pictures of them. I wonder what people 200 years ago or more would say if I did selfies with my phone :)

    • @n.i.t.f919
      @n.i.t.f919 6 лет назад

      Kjelly Lund hey ! Sir may I ask ! What is that odd object in your hands ?

    • @BrandonLeeDani5
      @BrandonLeeDani5 6 лет назад +1

      they would probably try to kill you

    • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
      @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 лет назад +1

      They’d probably ask you where you’re going to charge it.

    • @htown2898
      @htown2898 4 года назад

      They would call you a witch or demon,then burn you at the stake! Take extra plutonium and be ready to bail if you go back in time !

  • @savedbygodsgrace.9058
    @savedbygodsgrace.9058 5 лет назад +2

    Thank you for sharing. .i enjoyed it. .

  • @Michael-it6gb
    @Michael-it6gb Год назад +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.

  • @cherylhutchinson2206
    @cherylhutchinson2206 6 лет назад +6

    Almost everybody in the pictures were men.

    • @snowdog03
      @snowdog03 6 лет назад +4

      Busy at house work.

    • @ALRIGHTYTHEN.
      @ALRIGHTYTHEN. 5 лет назад +2

      I don’t like where this thread is headed.

    • @Kinobambino
      @Kinobambino 4 года назад

      @@ALRIGHTYTHEN. it headed to you.

    • @jimbarr4606
      @jimbarr4606 4 года назад +1

      Cheryl hutchinson I paused the clip to do some quick research on Tom Thumb and found a description of how elaborate his grave was. He outlived his wife some 35 years but she was buried next to him. Her tombstone supposedly simply said “his wife”.

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 3 года назад

      Well, it was still very much 'a man's world.'
      Women voting for anything was nicely into a far future; the 'communal imperative' as set to EVERYTHING EXTANT, was nowhere in-sight.
      The horror Amendments that led to taxation on one's labor for God's sake; female voting (i.e. dictating, because in-the-majority number's-wise); plus, the establishment of a central banking scheme to transfer wealth earned by labor to it's foreign ownership plus, all manner of other monstrosities leading to our present nightmare of year 2021, was THEN yet-to-be passed into suicidal law!
      Soon, very soon, this is to be the very remedy to it: "Where Law fails, Necessity rules."
      Buckle-up Establishment! YOU slime are to inherit the wildest of wild-winds ever and, NO mercy shall accrue unto you, you undeserving wickedness. (Best believe it!)
      +|+

  • @gasaholic47
    @gasaholic47 7 лет назад +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 лет назад

      True, but they would have been built considerably earlier.

  • @robinblankenship9234
    @robinblankenship9234 4 года назад +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 года назад

      Check out JonLevi RUclips videos and find out!

  • @robbybonfire9944
    @robbybonfire9944 7 лет назад +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 года назад

      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.

  • @dennythomas8887
    @dennythomas8887 6 лет назад +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 лет назад +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 лет назад

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      @akramkomeni309 6 лет назад

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    • @pavelow67
      @pavelow67 6 лет назад

      stupid

    • @joeymama4666
      @joeymama4666 6 лет назад +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

  • @lisathuban8969
    @lisathuban8969 7 лет назад +3

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

  • @MPresheva
    @MPresheva 4 года назад +1

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

  • @bm.3759
    @bm.3759 3 года назад +1

    No music, photos on left for 3-4 seconds. I don’t know. Not an enjoyable video.

  • @suzycreamchez123
    @suzycreamchez123 4 года назад +1

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

  • @Lord_Kratos69
    @Lord_Kratos69 8 месяцев назад +1

    This is just too crazy i knew that cameras were in like 1890
    But 1840?!

  • @paintinganimalsonrocks7633
    @paintinganimalsonrocks7633 4 года назад +1

    Thank you. ( A little slower, please?)

  • @jaskoe1
    @jaskoe1 7 лет назад +5

    So cool!

  • @xg6hpyk
    @xg6hpyk Год назад +1

    I was disappointed at how few pictures there were of women and the ones that were in photos were part of family groups. It was as if women weren't important enough to have their images preserved

  • @opalfishsparklequasar8663
    @opalfishsparklequasar8663 4 года назад +2

    I freaking LOVE this stuff, man.
    I CRAVE it.

  • @Dani92670
    @Dani92670 4 года назад +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 года назад

      Roger That Check out JonLevi RUclips videos and find out!

  • @wandacarpenter4555
    @wandacarpenter4555 Год назад +1

    Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos!!!❤

  • @maxsalazar8222
    @maxsalazar8222 7 лет назад +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 ..

  • @greatplainsman3662
    @greatplainsman3662 4 года назад

    Wow...just wow. Thanks.

  • @matildabond..2390
    @matildabond..2390 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @irisheyesofbelfast
      @irisheyesofbelfast 4 года назад

      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?

  • @reginahagel6035
    @reginahagel6035 5 лет назад +1

    7:03..anyone notice his height???against an elephant whith huge tusks???

  • @harryjames3905
    @harryjames3905 5 лет назад +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.

  • @braddelany6234
    @braddelany6234 5 лет назад +1

    at 9:23, obviously New Hay, South Carolina

  • @maxbluto
    @maxbluto 3 года назад +1

    Very impressed by the picture quality

  • @raindanse8466
    @raindanse8466 4 года назад

    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).

  • @TayDays1128
    @TayDays1128 7 лет назад

    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.

  • @davidk6271
    @davidk6271 5 лет назад +1

    Very interesting but it scrolls too fast

  • @kentuckylady2990
    @kentuckylady2990 8 лет назад +5

    Amazing

  • @roderickshelton1011
    @roderickshelton1011 5 лет назад +1

    So I guess this was way before Ellis Island...imagine that..

  • @castorkat4868
    @castorkat4868 3 года назад +1

    The text is on screen longer than the picture itself ....Geeeeeez

  • @trishexploring1508
    @trishexploring1508 4 года назад +1

    It goes too fast. You got time to read it but not enough time to look at the pictures

  • @carlthornton3076
    @carlthornton3076 4 года назад

    Very Good!!

  • @michaellehr741
    @michaellehr741 9 лет назад +5

    Would be nice if you gave credit to the people who own the images.

  • @lourdesajramos6774
    @lourdesajramos6774 3 года назад

    This is a very important video because of its recorded historic content and significance.

  • @BrandyTexas214
    @BrandyTexas214 4 года назад +1

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

  • @todd8781
    @todd8781 5 лет назад +2

    1:05 Hill Valley Clock Tower