Camera back in 19th century

tonyheaney

Hi history buffs i need a favour, I have a photo on my site and its the famine. The pic is titled 1870 but I have someone telling me it's not 1800s because cameras were never invented. so to close an argument 2 questions

1: Anyone know thew true year of this photo:



2: When were the first cameras used in:

A) Ireland/UK

The world

Del.Monte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera

As for the photograph - anytime from mid-19th century through to 1900 era - approx.

L1011

Cameras were common, if extremely expensive, by 1870. You are never going to find out when precisely unless you find the actual original and it has a date on it, though.

A lot of imaging related technology is rather older than people imagine - photography, fax machines, cinema, etc.

Arsemageddon

I'm think I've seen that picture before. If it's what I'm thinking of it's part of a larger image and it dates from the Land War and depicts a family being evicted.

Here's a link for some photos from the same period I came across while googling for it, the level of detail is pretty amazing...
http://mashable.com/2016/04/03/ireland-evictions/#VeytoHrRPkq4

tabbey

Superb photos of a sad era, and the OP's question answered, well done Arsemageddon.

tonyheaney

Arsemageddon wrote: »

I'm think I've seen that picture before. If it's what I'm thinking of it's part of a larger image and it dates from the Land War and depicts a family being evicted.

Here's a link for some photos from the same period I came across while googling for it, the level of detail is pretty amazing...
http://mashable.com/2016/04/03/ireland-evictions/#VeytoHrRPkq4

Amazing photos thank you very much for the help

Jellybaby1

Arsemageddon wrote: »

I'm think I've seen that picture before. If it's what I'm thinking of it's part of a larger image and it dates from the Land War and depicts a family being evicted.

Here's a link for some photos from the same period I came across while googling for it, the level of detail is pretty amazing...
http://mashable.com/2016/04/03/ireland-evictions/#VeytoHrRPkq4

It's the same lady in the Gweedore photograph.

Arsemageddon

Arsemageddon wrote: »

I'm think I've seen that picture before. If it's what I'm thinking of it's part of a larger image and it dates from the Land War and depicts a family being evicted.

Here's a link for some photos from the same period I came across while googling for it, the level of detail is pretty amazing...
http://mashable.com/2016/04/03/ireland-evictions/#VeytoHrRPkq4

Exceptional quality photographs bursting with socio-economic insight. Well done on finding them. The condition of so many of those homes as recently as the 1880s (my own grandmother was born in 1897) defy belief like this one in Gaoth Dobhair, c. 1887. Real, raw poverty. The defences on the Land League house in Mitchelstown make me wonder who was going to attack them and how those branches in the window would actually defend them. Are the four men at the back left of this photo (Galway, 1888) with Parachute Regiment-style hats and white bags medical personnel of some sort?

tabbey

It is interesting that there was a DELARUE occupier in Mitchelstown, and that a doctor (Tully) would be evicted in Woodford.

pedroeibar1

Deleted User wrote: »

Exceptional quality photographs bursting with socio-economic insight. Well done on finding them. The condition of so many of those homes as recently as the 1880s (my own grandmother was born in 1897) defy belief like this one in Gaoth Dobhair, c. 1887. Real, raw poverty. The defences on the Land League house in Mitchelstown make me wonder who was going to attack them and how those branches in the window would actually defend them. Are the four men at the back left of this photo (Galway, 1888) with Parachute Regiment-style hats and white bags medical personnel of some sort?

Soldiers, one has a sword – looks like the uniform of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The “WL” and “Image: National Library of Ireland” references indicate that the photos are from the William Lawrence Collection much of which is accessible via the NLI site. Lawrence’s principal photographer (Robert French) had been an RIC man for years before joining WL, so perhaps that helped him get the cooperation of those present in the photos

dubhthach

tonyheaney wrote: »

Hi history buffs i need a favour, I have a photo on my site and its the famine. The pic is titled 1870 but I have someone telling me it's not 1800s because cameras were never invented.

They've obviously never seen a documentary about the American Civil War which by and large are full of photo's of period.

Here's rather well known one of an "Irish Labourer" from the 1850's (someone who would have thus lived through the Famine)

tonyheaney

dubhthach wrote: »

They've obviously never seen a documentary about the American Civil War which by and large are full of photo's of period.

Here's rather well known one of an "Irish Labourer" from the 1850's (someone who would have thus lived through the Famine)

wow great photo, what's it source?

dubhthach

tonyheaney wrote: »

wow great photo, what's it source?

Sean Sexton collection, on the following url it mentions that photo is c. 1858

http://photoireland.org/exhibitions/the-collectors-eye/