50 Historic Moments Photographed For The First Time Ever

The first photograph ever taken, 1826

First Photograph of a Person, showing the view of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, 1838

Oldest Photograph of New York City, showing the Upper West Side, 1848

First Self-Portrait Photograph, a self-portrait of Robert Cornelius in daguerreotype, 1839

First Photographic Hoax: “Self Portrait as a Drowned Man” by Hippolyte Bayard, 1840

Oldest Photograph of a US President, the photograph of President John Quincy Adams, 1843

Oldest Aerial Photograph from 1860, a view of Boston from 2,066 feet in the air

First photograph of people playing chess with Nicolaas Henneman, 1841

First Photograph of an Amputation, 1847

First Photograph of Drinking, 1844

First News Photograph, also believed to be the first photo of an arrest, 1847

First Photograph to Illustrate a News Story: the Barricade in the Rue Saint Maur-Popincourt, 1848

The first color photograph, 1861

First Photograph of Lightning, 1882

First Photograph of a Tornado near Garnett, Kansas, 1884

First Photograph of the Moon, 1840

First Photograph of the Sun, 1845

The Wright brother's first flight, 1903

First photograph of a fatal plane crash, 1908

First Photograph from Space, a view of the Earth from a V-2 missile, 1946

The first photograph inside a hydrogen atom taken using a quantum microscope, 2013

First Photograph of Separation Between Binary Stars, 2013

The oldest known photo of Abraham Lincoln, 1840

The first public Jewish religious service in Germany held by American troops, 1944

LA Dodger's Glenn Burkes and Dusty Baker perform what it believed to be the first high-five, 1977

Henry Ford riding on the first car he built: The Ford Quadricycle, 1896

Hannah Stilley, the earliest born individual ever captured on camera, born in 1746, photographed in 1840

The world’s first underwater photo, 1893

Sally Halterman, the first woman granted a license to drive a motorcycle in Washington, D.C., 1937

The oldest known photograph of a Presidential inauguration,1857

Louis Washkansky, recipient of the world’s first human heart transplant, 1967

Minneapolis women lining up to vote for the first time ever in a presidential election, 1920

The first picture from the surface of Venus, 1982

The first team photo in baseball history, 1858

Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman in America to become a millionaire, 1900s

The first bananas to arrive in Norway, 1905

Photograph of the first modern Olympic Games, 1896

The first public showing of the bikini, 1946

Otto Lilienthal, the first person to make a successful glider flight, 1894

Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls, 1901

Construction of the world’s first Ferris wheel for the Chicago World's Fair, 1893

ENIAC, the world’s first computer, 1940

Installation of the first neon sign on the Las Vegas Strip, 1941

Sputnik 1, the first satellite, being launched into orbit by the Soviet Union, 1957

The first riders of New York City’s first subway, 1904

Bertha Benz, the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance, 1888

Ruby Bridges, the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South, 1960

The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, 1931

The first wheelie ever photographed, 1936

Howard Carter and his assistants viewing the tomb of Tutankhamen for the first time, 1924