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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by Caliban View PostHannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. More than likely the earliest born individual captured on a photo.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI've been working on our family history for a few years now, and this is the oldest photo of a relative I've managed to find. The Massachusetts branch of our family goes back to 1635 (when my 9x great grandfather arrived on a pilgrim ship), and this is one of my great-great-great-great grandfathers, Ephraim Reed Snelling (1788-1872) captured in old age. The image is much faded (I've done what I can to enhance it), his head has almost disappeared, but the eyes are still there and he still has a certain presence. He's described as "shipwright, shipbuilder, caulker and graver". He saw service against the English – he was a Corporal in the 1st (Binney's) Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia in the War of 1812, (the “forgotten war”), when England was seeking to enforce a blockade against Napoleon's France). His granddaughter Miss Martha Lincoln Snelling is listed as a Daughter of the American Revolution.
Absolutely amazing!
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Originally posted by ardcarp View Post...I was partly practising getting photos on the Forum. But they're all photos of photos taken in Stoke Abbott. Life of the rural poor in Hardy country.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostMany thanks for these.
Staring at the group of children, I wonder how they managed to get those smocks so gleamingly white in an era before Daz![FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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