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John Kasaian
6-Feb-2018, 07:47
No info on the lens, however---
https://www.photographytalk.com/photography-articles/8254-these-are-the-only-photos-ever-taken-of-revolutionary-war-veterans

Enjoy!
bgh
6-Feb-2018, 08:22
No info on the lens, however---
https://www.photographytalk.com/photography-articles/8254-these-are-the-only-photos-ever-taken-of-revolutionary-war-veterans

Enjoy!

This is incredible, John! I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.

Bruce
Bill Burk
6-Feb-2018, 08:30
https://books.google.com/books?id=9atCAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+last+men+of+the+revolution&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI1eaozZHZAhVKl1QKHaP9DCEQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false


The entire book is available online for free.
Two23
6-Feb-2018, 16:56
It is fascinating stuff. Have to wonder if some of the veterans had photos made earlier, say in the 1840s or 1850s?


Kent in SD
Jim Galli
6-Feb-2018, 17:05
No info on the lens, however---

Enjoy!

I can fill in a little on the lens John. It was a petzval.

NPR had a story several years ago about 2 ladies who still received checks as wives of veterans of civil war soldiers. I am fascinated by those kinds of spans. They literally had to be in their 20's and married men in their 80's to still be living. One of them just died recently. Turns out the depression caused that. Destitute women taken in by ancient men who then married them and lived out a 140 year span from the civil war.
John Kasaian
6-Feb-2018, 21:54
I can fill in a little on the lens John. It was a petzval.

NPR had a story several years ago about 2 ladies who still received checks as wives of veterans of civil war soldiers. I am fascinated by those kinds of spans. They literally had to be in their 20's and married men in their 80's to still be living. One of them just died recently. Turns out the depression caused that. Destitute women taken in by ancient men who then married them and lived out a 140 year span from the civil war.

Hmmmm......like giving a squirrel nuts after he's lost all his teeth!
ioingjorbor
30-Mar-2018, 16:33
All of those guys lived more than 100 years?


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Bob Salomon
30-Mar-2018, 18:20
Not only did they live that long but they all seem to have had a full head of hair!
pchaplo
1-May-2018, 11:40
One was stationed near my home town. I'm not seeing many spectacles/glasses. Good genes.
Randy
6-May-2018, 15:11
I'm not seeing many spectacles/glasses. Good genes.No...they didn't spend their afternoons squinting at a computer monitor like me...
Daniel Stone
12-May-2018, 19:22
One was stationed near my home town. I'm not seeing many spectacles/glasses. Good genes.

Or they were already blind, so did not require any further image enhancement :rolleyes:
goamules
12-May-2018, 19:57
Generations can stretch far beyond the average 20 years, if a man marries a much younger woman late in life (common until recently), and the woman has children. A 50 or 60 year old man marrying a 20 year old was common a hundred years ago. If he fought at 20 the last year of the Revolution, 1783, he would be 60 in 1823. If he had a child that year it would be 60 in 1883. If that person had a child that year, it would be 60 in 1943. That person's child could still be alive. So it's possible for someone's great grandfather to have fought in the Revolution. When my dad was young in the 1940s, he talked to great aunts and such that were children of Civil War vets. Used to be WWI vets were the "old men" of the town, and the WWII were the middle aged dads and Boy Scout leaders. Time marches on, but our country really isn't that old.

http://www.coltforum.com/forums/attachments/lounge/550737d1526057705-r-e-lee-camp-no-1-confederate-veterans-sword-image.jpeg
Alan Klein
12-May-2018, 21:26
It would be neat to see photos of Washington and some of the other patriots.
goamules
13-May-2018, 05:43
Washington died in 1799, Jefferson in 1826. Photography was invented about 13 years later.
Bob Salomon
13-May-2018, 06:48
Washington died in 1799, Jefferson in 1826. Photography was invented about 13 years later.

Don’t forget, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826!
Willie
13-May-2018, 09:30
It is interesting but asserting " Elias and his photographer, Nelson Augustus Moore, managed to snap the only photographs ever taken of anyone that participated in the War for Independence."

We don't know if some other photographer took any. Just as before her "discovery" we did not know of Vivian Maier. There may well be a few old images somewhere waiting to be discovered.
smrtysusan
1-Aug-2018, 02:01
All of those guys lived more than 100 years?


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They all made a century through age :D