10 Early Photographs Mapped on SepiaTown

1826

First permanent photograph ever created.

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1835
Photograph created from the oldest photographic negative in existence.

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1838
Earliest photograph of a human being.

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1839
Possibly the earliest photograph of London.

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1841
Earliest photograph ever taken of the Czech Republic.

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1846
Early photograph of Frankfurt, Germany.

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1851
Early photograph of San Francisco.

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1850s
Early photograph of New York City.

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1862
One of the earliest known photos of a baseball game.

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1863
American civil war photograph

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Mapped, Historic, Dorothea Lange Photograph on SepiaTown

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Sputnik on SepiaTown

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On this day 53 years ago the Soviet Union lauched Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. See two mapped photos of the launch on SepiaTown.

45 Years Ago Today LBJ Signed the Immigration Act of 1965

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45 years ago today President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into the law the Immigration Act of 1965.  The legislation abolished the 'National Origins Formula' which favored immigration from Northern and Western European countries and tightly restricted immigration from pretty much everywhere else; most notably Eastern and Southern Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. This change brought racial and ethnic equality to US immigration policy, and created large changes in the racial makeup of the United State in the proceeding 45 years.

The Act had wide support in Congress and was championed by the young Senator Edward Kennedy. The House of Representatives passed the act by a vote 326 to 69 (82.5%), and and the Senate passed it by a vote of 76 to 18. (Can you imagine what the fate and vote margins of a piece of pro-immigration legislation would be today).

During the signing ceremony on October 3, 1965 on the esplanade of Liberty Island, President Johnson stated...

 "This [old] system violates the basic principle of American democracy, the principle that values and rewards each man on the basis of his merit as a man. It has been un-American in the highest sense, because it has been untrue to the faith that brought thousands to these shores even before we were a country."  

Some Links
Another image from the signing ceremony on SepiaTown
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 Wikipedia Article
National Origins Formula Wikipedia Article

 

101 Years Ago Today the Twickenham Rugby Ground Hosted its First Match

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101 years ago today the Twickenham Rugby Ground, now regarded as the home of English rugby, hosted its very first match (Harlequins v. Richmond - October 2, 1909).

Above is a photograph taken at the stadium following the Kings Cup match 10 years later.

Another rugby-related image on SepiaTown
A great, photo-filled website about the history of rugby.

Happy Birthday Yosemite National Park!

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120 years ago today, on October 1, 1890, Yosemite National Park was officially created by an Act of Congress. It was the third US national park created, preceded by only by Yellowstone (1872) and Sequoia (1890).

"The Scopes Monkey Trial" on SepiaTown

85 years ago today the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" (officially, The State of Tennessee vs. Scopes) began in Dayton, Tennessee.  Click on the image above to see a handful of mapped Scopes Trial photographs on SepiaTown.

Read about the trial here...

Lots of info and original documents at University of Missouri's Famous Trials Homepage

and here...

Scopes Trial Wikipedia Article

Morning Pic - Jakob's Square, Stockholm, Sweden, circa 1885

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The Nations of the 2010 World Cup Semifinal in Sepia

Four historical views of the nations of the 2010 World Cup Semifinals. Click on any image to see it mapped on SepiaTown.

Palace of the People (Paleis voor Volksvlijt)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, circa 1890

Calle Rincón (Rincón Street)
Montevideo, Uruguay, 1900 - 1929

Leipziger Straße East From Mauerstraße
Berlin, Germany, 1909

La Plaza Mayor
Madrid, Spain, 1850 - 1899

And if you want to know where
our sympathies lie...

Happy 4th of July

Let's celebrate America's promise...

Black and White Boys Fishing off the Kaw River Dam
Lawrence, Kansas , 1900 - 1929

but remember her flaws...

Rally Protesting the Integration of Central High School
Little Rock, Arkansas, 1959

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147 Years Ago - The Battle of Gettysburg Began

Dead Confederate soldier in Devil's Den, Gettysburg, PA, 1863.

See this image precisely mapped on SepiaTown....

See how this scene looks today on Panoramio

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/937478

Pic of the Day - Old Yankee Stadium from the Woodlawn IRT Tracks

Great photo uploaded by the New York Transit Museum of the old Yankee Stadium as seen from the Woodlawn IRT.

Make sure to check it out the Google Street View, which was taken before the old stadium was demolished and the new stadium (on left) was completed.

Also check out  youtube videos of the demolition (sniff, sniff!).

Two Perspectives of Alexanderplatz, 30 yards and 76 years apart.

Alexanderplatz, 1903

Alexanderplatz, 1979

 
Few cities have reinvented themselves more over the past 100 years than Berlin. The comparison of these two images illustrate the dramatic nature of this transformation. Both photographs were taken from the same section of elevated U-bahn track over Rathausstraße (once called Königstraße), and both are looking more-or-less north-northeastward. (Click on images above to see page on SepiaTown).

Over 200 images of old Berlin on SepiaTown

....and more are on the way.

  Click on an image below to see its page on SepiaTown.

Alexanderplatz

Potsdamer Platz

Spittelmarkt

Leipziger Straße

Berlin Stock Exchange and the Friedrichsbrücke

Oranienplatz

Palast der Republik Youth Dance

Hitler Marching in Front of the Kroll Opera

The UK Suffrage Movement on SepiaTown

204 years ago today (1806) John Stuart Mill, the great English liberal philosopher, radical MP, early critic of slavery, colonialism, and the inequality of woman, was born in the Pentonville section of London.

143 years ago Mill celebrated his 61st birthday by introducing an amendment to the Reform Act of 1867 that granted woman the full voting rights of men.  It was the first time such a proposal had ever been made in Parliament. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 196 to 73.  Mill's heroic act not only created an onslaught of criticism and satirizing, it cost him his seat in parliament three years later.

It would take 61 more years (1928), and acres of broken glass, till the woman of the UK won the full voting rights of men.

Some images on SepiaTown documenting that struggle

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Related Links:

More details of John Stuart Mill's support for woman's suffrage at charlespetzold.com
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2009/02/1859-Books-John-Stuart-Mill-On-Liberty.html

John Stuart Mill's Quotes
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

John Stuart Mill Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

'Woman Suffrage in the United Kingdom' Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom

'Women Social and Political Union (UK)' Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union

Grauman's Chinese Theater on SepiaTown

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83 years ago today Grauman's Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood California (May 18, 1927).

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on SepiaTown

67 years ago today the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to its tragic end and the Nazi's plot to deport and exterminate the remaining population of Warsaw's once vibrant Jewish community succeeded.

At the start of the Uprising in April 1943 roughly 63,000 Jews still remained in the ghetto.  By May 16th 13,000 of those had been killed (many burned alive in fires set by the SS) and the other 50,000 had been captured and shipped to concentration and extermination camps, most notably Treblinka.
 
Read more about it here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

See mapped Warsaw Ghetto and Uprising related images on SepiaTown...

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