when there’s an old photograph, AND the guy in it is really old, it’s like, wow, that guy is super old
Conrad Heyer, photographed in 1852 at the age of 103. He was born in 1749 and is thought to be the earliest-born person ever photographed.
i am experiencing Emotions about locking photographic gaze with a man who was born in the middle of the 18th century
this dude was an adult already during the american revolutionary war (ish)? he was getting real time news of the unfolding of France’s emperors? what
whaaat
he is looking at me
Not nearly as old as the above, nor anywhere near the oldest I have, but this is among my little century of family photos. (Two folks in this photo are my direct ancestors.) My brother saw them - particularly Betsy in the middle - and had the same process of ‘age of photo’ plus 'age of subjects’ and sputtered, “oh my god, these are OLD PEOPLE.”
