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He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and Caesar, an African.
Born in 1749, she is one of the earliest-born people to ever be photographed. The image of Aunty Moser is a sixth-plate daguerrotype—a small, unique image on a silver-plated copper plate which was framed in a small traveling case.
Many of us are lucky to uncover photographs of our ancestors from the early 20th century, and even luckier to find photos from the late 19th century. That means that the earliest photographs most people may have access to feature ancestors born sometime in the 1800s.
He was photographed in 1852 at the age of 103. Heyer, says the New Market Press, is the person with the earliest birth date ever captured in a photograph. Heyer himself was a veteran of the...
This photo is of a woman known as “Aunty Moser,” who was possibly 102 years old when she sat for a daguerreotype portrait in 1852, making her one of the earliest-born people to be photographed.
John Owen was born in 1735, in Salisbury, making him one of the strongest contender to the title of the earliest born person to be photographed. A veteran of the Revolutionary War, Owen lived up to the ripe old age of 107.
This Is The Earliest Born Person Ever Photographed. Feast your eyes on Conrad Hayer, a New England-dwelling vet of the American Revolution who, at 103 years old, decided to take advantage of a good old fashioned photo op.