Rare Pictures

[robert_elv]

Hi friends, what about posting some rare and rarest pictures - being nostalgic... Well I am starting with this 100 years old picture of an important news.

[Áine]

I remember watching this on TV

[purplefan]

Ah but did man actually land on the moon,

Was it not filmed in a TV studio or something?

[Musky]

Ah but did man actually land on the moon,

Was it not filmed in a TV studio or something?

That is an old "conspiracy theory". The astronauts went to the moon. There is no way to keep the number of people who would have had to be in on a hoax quiet for all these years!

[jeanigal2]

A happy family in the day! )'>

[campanula]

The very first number of communist newspaper Pravda with the note of Titanic catastrophe

[photofan]

How about a colorized photo of Abraham Lincoln

some more great iconic images colorized here

http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/famous-old-photos-colorized-281t

[My4CatsAndMe]

Technically, once these photos were digitized, they are no longer "rare." They can now be viewed by anyone anywhere.

Here is the first known photograph of a human. It was taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre.

This is a busy street in Paris, but the exposure took so long that no people were captured by the camera. The one exception is a man standing on the sidewalk near the bottom left corner. You can see that he is getting his boot shined, which is why he stood still long enough to appear in the photo.

If you want to see a larger version of it to zoom in and see him better, here it is:

www.listspress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre.jpg