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SereneProdigy
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Pictures of Firsts


I think that people who love both photography and history will adore this. A friend of mine just sent me this by e-mail because he knows that I love these kinds of things; for some weird reason, some of these pictures get me very emotional, haha.

So anyway, here it is: pictures of firsts. Feel free to contribute with historical pictures too!



The earliest photo of Abraham Lincoln. [1840]:




Minneapolis women lining up to vote for the first time in a presidential election. [1920]:




Sally Halterman, the first woman granted a license to operate a motorcycle in Washington, D.C. [1937]:




The first photo of The Beatles with Ringo Starr as the drummer. [August 22, 1962]:




The world’s first underwater photo. [1893]:




Madam C.J. Walker. The first woman in America to become a millionaire by her own endeavors:




The first team photo in baseball history. [1858]:




The first McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino. [1948]:




Photographs of the first modern Olympic Games, Athens. [1896]:




Bertha Benz, with the help of her two sons, became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance – 66 miles. [5 August, 1888]:




Sputnik 1, the first satellite, being launched into orbit by the Soviet Union. [1957]:




The first photo taken from space. A V2 rocket was launched straight up, with the film protected in a steel case. [1946]:




Recipient of the world’s first human heart transplant, Louis Washkansky, in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, three days after the surgery. [6 December 1967]:




The first known photograph of a Presidential inauguration, taken in 1857 at the swearing in of James Buchanan:




Glenn Burkes and Dusty Baker, of the LA Dodgers, perform what is believed to be the first high-five. [2 October, 1977]:




Henry Ford poses on the first car he built, the Ford Quadricycle. [1896]:




ENIAC, the world’s first computer. [1940]:




The first public showing of the bikini, Paris. [1946]:




Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. She was followed everywhere by US Marshals because of threats on her life. [1960]:




Construction of the world’s first Ferris wheel for the Chicago world’s fair. [1893]:




Installing the first neon sign on the Las Vegas Strip. [1941]:




The first passengers of New York City’s first subway. [1904]




Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. She is the earliest born individual captured on film:




And last but none least... the first photograph ever taken in human history. It shows the view outside of a window in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France. [1826]:
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Awesome stuff thanks!
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Quote by SereneProdigy
for some weird reason, some of these pictures get me very emotional, haha.

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Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. She was followed everywhere by US Marshals because of threats on her life. [1960]:



Yes, that one gets me emotional. This little brave girl being a player in a grown-up fight.

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As Bridges describes it, "Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras." Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her."

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


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First day Disneyland opened in 1955
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May 16, 1929
The first Academy Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt's Blossom Room (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Before a large gathering of motion-picture celebrities and other notables, the first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Academy President Douglas Fairbanks handed out 15 statuettes for outstanding achievement in 1927 and 1928.



Best picture: “Wings”
Actor: Emil Jannings, “The Last Command” and “The Way of all Flesh”
Actress: Janet Gaynor, “Seventh Heaven,” “Street Angel” and “Sunrise”
Director: Frank Borzage, “Seventh Heaven”
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The photo of ENIAC is mistakenly labeled 1940. It was the 1st prototype however.

http://ftp.arl.mil/mike/comphist/eniac-story.html

The ENIAC was placed in operation at the Moore School, component by component, beginning with the cycling unit and an accumulator in June 1944.

This was followed in rapid succession by the initiating unit and function tables in September 1945 and the divider and square-root unit in October 1945. Final assembly took place during the fall of 1945.

By today's standards for electronic computers the ENIAC was a grotesque monster. Its thirty separate units, plus power supply and forced-air cooling, weighed over thirty tons. Its 19,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, and hundreds of thousands of resistors, capacitors, and inductors consumed almost 200 kilowatts of electrical power.

But ENIAC was the prototype from which most other modern computers evolved.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
SereneProdigy
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Quote by WellMadeMale
The photo of ENIAC is mistakenly labeled 1940. It was the 1st prototype however.


You're right, I just Googled that very same picture and the accurate year is 1946.

I didn't verify all these dates, but there might be a few slight inaccuracies here and there. The 'first photograph ever taken' (the last picture of my post) was originally dated 1842 in the e-mail I received. It didn't make much sense as some of these other pictures are dated 1840 (eg. the picture of Lincoln); I verified it and it really is the very first photograph ever taken, only the correct date is 1826.


PS: Thanks to the other contributors so far. Very nice pictures too!
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A few other awesome pictures. Truly historical.


The first time I lit one of my farts. [1991]:




The first time I watched the movie Twilight. [2009]:




The first time I tried to convince my friends that I really am Batman. [2001]:




The first time my pusher asked me a favor (which was coincidentally also the last). [2004]:




The first time I visited dpw's profile on Lush. [2013]:
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Too bad the photos seem not to have survived the server migration (or is that still an ongoing process?).

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Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. She is the earliest born individual captured on film:



Here's a 'close' runner up. Sixteen years younger (born 1762), but more famous: Constanze Mozart (left), widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The photograph (daguerrotype) is from 1840 as well. This one is a copy of the original btw, made in the second half of the 19th century:



Source: Unique photo of Mozart's widow revealed


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Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, on March 26, 1930. O'Connor made history as the first woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court. As a justice, O'Connor was as a key swing vote in many important cases, including the upholding of Roe v. Wade. She retired in 2006, after serving for 24 years.
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It sucks so much that all the pictures of this thread were lost (Lush had issues during the week that I created this thread). And I can't post them again as I actually deleted the e-mail that my friend originally sent me.

Anyway, here is the very first drawing of Batman ever presented to the public (1939):





Notice how he already looked so badass back then. Plus he's 76-year-old today and still kicking major ass.

Legends never die.
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sorry ... just could not resist ..