[GODREKR]

Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, Daguerreotype. Believed to be the earliest photograph showing a living person. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure time was at least ten minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men near the bottom left corner, one apparently having his boots polished by the other, stayed in one place long enough to be visible. Note that, as with most daguerreotypes, the image is a mirror image. Dated between 24 April 1838 and 4 May 1838.


This was one of the first tornadoes of which there is a photograph. The photographer was F.N. Robinson, who observed the tornado from a street in the town of Howard, about 3 km east of the storm track. The 1884 Howard, South Dakota tornado was a large tornado that occurred on August 28, 1884, near Howard, South Dakota, which was then part of the Dakota Territory. It demolished one farm, located south of Bridgewater, South Dakota. Four people were killed there and two injured. It was one of an outbreak of four very strong tornadoes in the area that day. Contemporary records and survivors' recollections indicate that the storms were F3 or F4 on the Fujita scale.

[murofhsirgo]

shit thats almost 200 years ago cool picture. is that aother person with their head down and sitting twenty feet in front of the guy standing?

[GODREKR]

The exceptions are the man and shoe-shine boy at the bottom left, and two people sitting at a table nearby who stood still long enough to have their images captured.

From:
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...0/#post1834223

[Kelseecat65]

So cool!!

[jlip22]

[HarveySpecter]