36 Invaluable Photos From The 19th Century That Made History Come Alive

what a gorgeous woman! the hair is so elegant.

She looks like she could be an ancestor of my wife's family. We'll never know.

Ohnshit 😟

I would rather have seen him in his original finery.

It was probably really scary to dive in that massive suit.

Again, Buffalo Bill treated these people like zoo animals. He was a horrible person.

For many, photographs were very expensive and not done. The only way for them to have a visual memory of their loves ones was often funeral photographs. Momento Mori.

Some parts of Edinburgh still look like this,

Now you can stand on a platform on the right toward the bottom. Amazing how the Snake comes out just about 10 miles from my house. (I’m in WA, btw)

A hurdy-gurdy!

Two living persons. Shoe shiner and customer.

Kind of a s****y way for a proud Native American to spend his twilight years. Buffalo Bill was not a good person and he treated many of his performers like they were property to be displayed to the public for money.

Douglass, at an older age, is shown on a US postage stamp. A fascinating, important man.

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Taken by Gustave Le Gray in 1856

My parents were there and thought it was absolutely fascinating. Some day I'll go.

I think the word you want here is “attendants”

that’s surreal

I wish I could do my hair like that.

He didn't grow a beard until a little girl wrote and suggested it.

She looks like a lady in a renaissance painting. Beautiful!

Mayall being the photographer?

Yet another bro getting too close to the geysers

https://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/photos/question1.html

That's someone's home in SW England

Looks awfully clean.

Jean-Gaspard Deburau. A little boy recognized him out of costume on the street in 1836. Annoyed, Deburau struck him with his cane, killing him.

There's some fabric in that frock

I thought the one on the right was showing an Angelina Jolie leg. Bit disappointed he wasn't

What native? Native of where? I see locals at home visited by a foreigner.

The vast majority of the workers were Chinese but were excluded from the photo. An example of how history isn presented differently than it actually happened.

Hot air balloon?

Bahamas!

Born in 1792 - son of the noted astronomer William Herschel and nephew of the slightly overlooked astronomer Caroline Herschel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel

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Yeah, no. Not USA. That is a British unit, pictured by a British photographer during the Crimean War.

So 2 people make an entourage. These men are just tasked to keep flies of him.