The world's first selfie, 1839
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Robert Cornelius' 1839 daguerreotype - the first publicly available photographic process - is widely accepted as the first known photographic self-portrait of a person ever taken.
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The first photo ever taken, 1826
"View from the Window at Le Gras" by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce is the oldest surviving camera photograph. The picture shows the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, as seen from a window.
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The first photo with people, 1838
This photograph by Louis Daguerre depicts Place de la République, Paris, with two human figures in the left-hand corner.
It is the world’s first photograph of the "Ville Lumière" and the first photo with humans.
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The first photo of a President, 1843
This portrait of John Quincy Adams, taken at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, is the oldest existing photo of a U.S. president. The very first photograph of a president (William Henry Harrison) was taken in 1841 but has now been lost.
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The first photo of war, 1870
Carol Szathmari, the first known war photographer, captured the very first photograph of an actual battle. Showing a line of Prussian troops as they advance, the photographer shot the image as he stood with French defenders.
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The first color photo, 1861
The photograph, taken by Thomas Sutton, depicts a colored ribbon, usually described as a tartan ribbon.
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The first underwater photo of a person, 1899
This portrait was taken by Louis Marie-Auguste Boutan in Banyuls-sur-Mer, South of France.
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The earliest-born person to be photographed, 1840
Hannah Gorby was born in 1746 - 10 years before Mozart and 23 years before Napoleon. Neither of those famous figures lived long enough to see the invention of photography, but Gorby posed for a portrait at the age of 94.
The first aerial photograph, 1860
A picture of Boston, as seen from over 2,000 feet in the air, taken by James Wallace Black and Samuel Archer King.
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The first digital photo, 1957
Capturing the son of Walden Kirsch, this image is also one of the first scanned images.
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Great, informative editorial!