Here are photos of people born before the Revolutionary War.

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

John Adams was born in 1745:

Hannah Stilley Gorby was born in 1746:

And perhaps even beating both of them, here is a slave named Caesar who was supposedly born in 1737:

These are all copies of daguerreotypes made between 1840 and 1851.

And although she wasn't born before the War, as a bonus, here is perhaps the oldest photo of a legit hottie: Dorothy Draper, born in 1807, and photographed in 1839; it is the oldest known portrait of a woman:

 

[scribe56]

Dottie was probably

a legit 7 back then.
Seriously, those are pretty cool. I majored in U.S. history at IU and love looking at old pics like that
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[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Here's my favorite historical thing of all time.

You might have seen it before..

In 1956, a 96 year old man named Samuel Seymour appeared on I've Got a Secret. His secret was that he was actually in Ford's Theatre and witnessed the shooting of Abraham Lincoln.

This kind of stuff fascinates me. It's amazing to think just how close we are to things that seem so far away. My own dad probably watched this show of a man who saw Lincoln shot. Boggles the mind.

Holy crap.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

This one's even better.

There are longer versions of all of these out there, but this is a Nightline special from 1999 that showcased recordings made in the 1930s and 1940s of actual former slaves remembering what it was like when they were slaves.

Good ol' days

 

[largemouth]

Do you have any pics of the glory days of IU basketball?

They would be from a time long ago. I've heard of it, but am having a difficult time remembering.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Here you go.

This oughta tide ya over.

And This Was Branch

 

[C-$]

You mean when we were the 4th seed?

I swear, some of our "fans" need a history lesson.

They are "special".

 

[Tomwis]

That is fantastic. Nt

Nt

 

[Tomwis]

Was thinking

About this. My dad was born 45 years after Lincoln was assisinated. As we get older we realize what a blink of an eye that really is.

 

[Youngsumm]

That's not John Adams

John Adams died in 1826. The daguerreotype wasn't introduced until 1839.
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[IUhottie]

it is John Adams

It's just not John Adams.

 

[Rangeline Fan]

Is there a point to your post or was this just a random thing?**

Oo

 

[jughaid]

anything in a two-piece? ***

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