These days, when cameras are everywhere, from our phones to security cams in public spaces, it’s easy to forget that the major part of history has passed without them. Only in 1888, when Kodak released the first commercial camera, did they slowly begin permeating our lives.

In 1826, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor, came up with what forever changed the way we see, experience, and remember the world and its history. It was the birth of a camera that took the first photograph on a piece of paper coated with tar of the view from his window at Le Gras. Of course, it looked nothing even remotely similar to what we think of as a camera.

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Les musées et les galeries d’art sont devenus une expérience accablante pour les visiteurs. Heureusement, certaines personnes démêlent et simplifient les vieilles idées et les vieux concepts dans un langage que nous, les mortels, pouvons comprendre. Nous vous avons déjà présenté des peintures historiques avec des sous-titres hilarants, mais aujourd’hui, nous vous présentons quelque chose

Atavism: the means by which suddenly any creature -- humans included -- can sprout physical traits that they thought they had abandoned millennia ago.

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The Swing by Jean Honore Fragonard. In various sizes. Giclee printed on high quality matte canvas using archival inks. Archival inks can last 75 years if kept out of direct sunlight. Prints are not framed or mounted. All prints have an approximate 1/2" white border in addition to the print size. Items ship free to the U.S. in one business day. Prints are carefully rolled and shipped in a crush-proof tube or sturdy mailer. Available in other sizes, just send me a message.

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Mao’s last public appearance—and the last known photograph of him alive—was on May 27, 1976, when he met the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the latter’s one-day…

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Download Image of [Holstengate, Lubeck, Germany], Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1879". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.. Dated: 01.01.1890. Topics: photochrom prints, color, holstengate, lubeck, germany, historic sites, 19th century, lot 13411, photo, print, ultra high resolution, high resolution, landmarks, tourism, travel views, views, detroit publishing company, prussia, historic buildings, architecture, building, postcards, library of congress, views of germany

California, 1918. The 1918 Spanish flu killed up to 50 million people around the world and has been called “the mother of all pandemics”. Between 1918 and 1919,

The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, including 31 times by the Royal Air Force (RAF). Air

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C'est en 1525 que Ludovico Capponi, banquier et homme politique florentin, confie à Pontormo la décoration de la chapelle qu'il vient d'acheter en l'église Santa Felicita de Florence.

A study of the Medieval king's skeleton reveals traumatic wounds he received at the time of death.

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But throughout time and across cultures, shaving, beard trimming, and even hairstyling carried heavy cultural meaning for men.

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The wise words of Father Michael Mueller, 1880. Fr. Michael Müller C.Ss.R. (1825–1899) was a prolific Catholic writer of the 19th century in the United States. Father Müller always sub…

Behind the number 12, rue Chabanais, a typical building on a typical back street not far from the Musée du Louvre in Paris, used to be one of the most notorious and prestigious bordellos of the golden era. Today, it's an apartment building, but just across the road at number 11, an inconspicuous lit

Clarence Frederick Underwood create images for magazines Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ World magazine and others, as well as works by many literary works. Underwood was born in Jamestown, NY, during his studies took place in Paris, after which he chose for himself a career illustrator.

To animate the image scroll down to the first comment below or view original size. Details and History The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This circa 1871 William Gunnison Chamberlain portrait of a Ute man has minimal bibliographic detail. Further information on the photographer's life and work can be found in Palmquist and Kailbourne's bibliographic dictionary "Pioneer Photographers of the Far West". Chamberlain first photographed the Ute people during an 1871 trip through the Rocky mountains. He continued working int he Denver area through the 1890s. His irreplaceable library of negatives was destroyed in an 1883 fire, along with any information not published on the extant stereoviews. The Ute people were wary of being photographed. Accounts of the time attribute this to worries of becoming sick, something we might attribute to interaction of an outsider with a relatively closed community. Often neglected is the political climate of the era. The long running Black Hawk War (1865-1872) with Mormon settlers gave Native Americans an immediate reason to be waryr lands in Utah were seized. Five years later conflicts in Colorado lead to the seizure of the gold-rich lands promised by treaty. Quick Links to related animated stereo images: Native American people. Ute people. Browse the 19th century or by decade: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s. Browse the 20th century or by decade: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s. Copyright Advisory This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ute_Indians,_from_Robert_... . This image is also available with bibliographic notes from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?g92f046_017zf . Technical trivia Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.

Holland is a region situated on the western coast of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. "Holland" is often mistakenly used to refer to the entire country.

Note: The band entered Sydney Harbour playing their newly composed "Australian Stomp" on deck, with their dancers performing. After good reviews, the Truth newspaper organised for the band to be raided. They were found with Australian women and deported. African American bands were banned from visiting until 1954. The Library has photographs of the Louis Armstrong tour, the first Afro-American entertainer to visit after the ban was lifted, and of the Harlem Blackbirds in 1955, the first Afro-American group to visit. Format: Photograph Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=153397 Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/SimpleSearch.aspx From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au

El arte es un reflejo del mundo y nada mejor para mostrar lo que es ahora el mundo que el arte... combinado con memes. Estos hijos del matrimonio entre los museos y los smartphones son lo mejor que pudo haber pasado. Primero fueron los snapchats y las pinturas; ahora es tiempo de algo más. Estos

Striking images - shortly to be auctioned - show the Caribbean island in the early years of photography.

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YES. The Reichsadler was originally the banner of Saint Maurice, martyred commander of the Theban Legion. In Donald F. O'Reilly's Paper, The Theban Legion of Saint Maurice, he traces this symbol back...

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