First photograph

Louis Daguerre took this photograph of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris in 1838. Daguerre was the inventor of the Daguerrotype (the image in a Daguerreotype is formed by an alloy of mercury and

A list of the first photos of various things. These may be the earliest photos ever captured or the oldest surviving image known.

With Tennessee Senators voting to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment.

Scottish man John Thomson toured China for four years from 1868, photographing landmarks, scenery and the native population as he went. Pictured: A prisoner in chains.

The story behind Nicéphore Niépce's 'View from the Window at Le Gras', the first photo known to have been made using a camera.

The record for world's largest camera is currently held by an aircraft hangar camera, but back in 1900, a photographer by the name of George R. Lawrence

Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911. Plenty of living historians and enthusiasts of the city have paid intensive attention to that booming time period when the city's population fast approached five million, but none experienced it first-hand. Open Culture, openculture.com

The Wright Brothers are famous for being the Pioneers of Aviation after their first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight on Dec. 17, 1903.

Original Comic Art titled Raymond, Alex - In His Studio with a Model, located in Ray's Raymond, Alex Comic Art Gallery (260148)

He had to scamper in front of the camera after removing the cover on the lens