1838 Window to the Past

There is one particular daguerreotype that has always fascinated me. It was taken by Louis Daguerre himself, and is the very first photograph known to show a human being! This photo was taken in 1838. 1838!! That’s 173 years old!! Think about how amazing that is: a photograph taken a mere fifty-five years after the American Revolution and less than forty years after the French Revolution, twenty-three years after the Battle of Waterloo and twenty-three years before the start of the American Civil War; like I said, amazing.