What is the oldest photograph you own?

Question

What is the oldest photograph you own?

Answer 1

3rd Great-grandmother. Taken circa 1860's. The photographic reproductions are quite nice, and the tin-type original has held up amazingly well.

Answer 2

i have one of my great great great grandma taken bake in the late 1880's

Answer 3

I'm 87, Sweetheart. Take your pick.

Answer 4

I have two. One is of my Grandfather holding a shire horse in about 1898. The other is older and is a picture of my great grandmother & great grandfather and three of their children, back in the 1880's

Answer 5

my great grandparents that came to the US from Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) in the early 1900s (about 1900 or 1905)

my great grandpa was an American at war when he met my great grandma and he bought her a ticket to the US to live w/ him <3 awww

Answer 6

one of my great grandma in 1945. we also have one of an uncle ernie that looks older but we dont know the date?

Answer 7

Me, A baby in diapers, apx. 1 yr old, standing in some grass.

(27 yrs old)

Answer 8

My family has a daguerreotype who I think is my 4th great grandpa who died in 1843.  If not, it is my 3rd great grandpa who died in 1855.  

The picture therefore, has to be at least 153 years old.

Answer 9

One of my great great great grandpa I think its like 90 or 100 years old.  We also have a journal from him and htas 111 years old!

Answer 10

what of myself? i have a pic just out of my mum's belly!! unwashed and still with the cord

Answer 11

Hey,

I have a picture of my grandfather and great greatfather standing together in their garden, circa 1945. Looking at the picture, I can tell my greatfather was a typical victorian style gentleman.

Answer 12

I have several of the Generals that served in the Civil War.  Everyone wanted a picture of their favorite General, especially General Grant, so they were very plentiful.

Answer 13

I have one of my great great great grandmother and grandfather taken in the late 1880's.

Answer 14

An 1895 photograph of our local football team, the brother of my wife's grandfather is in it !

Answer 15

Lots of them from the late 1800's and 1900s. Mostly family pics

Answer 16

of my dad, when he was a baby in th 30's

Answer 17

The oldest photograph I own is one of my gr gr gr grandparents.  It is an old tintype and would have had to have been taken before  September 1876 when my gr gr gr grandmother died. People looked so serious back then.

Answer 18

I have one of my Grandmother who died in 1920, not very old really but oh so precious.