I’ve been posting miscellaneous bits of info this week (including the one and only poem Dickinson wrote where she used the word “miscellaneous”), and I came across a Reels video where I paused to watch – just to see if the footage included Emily Dickinson.
The banner on the video that caught my eye said, “Historical people who lived long enough to be photographed.”
At first that caption called to mind a visit to the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown, VA, where I stopped in my tracks when I saw an exhibit that included photographs of people who had survived the American Revolutionary War.
The banner on the video that caught my eye said, “Historical people who lived long enough to be photographed.”
At first that caption called to mind a visit to the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown, VA, where I stopped in my tracks when I saw an exhibit that included photographs of people who had survived the American Revolutionary War.
| “How could that be?” I thought. Photographs of people from the Revolutionary War? When it comes to the first cameras, I tend to think Civil War era, but it turns out that the first device that could capture and reproduce an image was invented in 1816 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (Niépce's invention was called the heliograph, and it turns out that the first surviving photograph taken by him (taken in 1826 or 1827) is currently in the University of Texas-Austin's permanent collection). By the way, info on “The Last Men of the Revolution” is linked HERE, and the article includes photographs of Revolutionary War veterans which were published in 1864. Back to that Reels video. After I thought about those Rev War photographs, I wondered if the likeness of Emily Dickinson would be included in the footage – which includes Rasputin, Chopin, Andrew Jackson, and more. I was not disappointed. : ) |  |
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