17 Historical Photos You Might Have Not Seen Before

This still life, shot in 1837, is the world's earliest reliably dated daguerreotype.

Louis Daguerre—the inventor of the daguerreotype—shot what is not only the world's oldest photograph of Paris but also the first photo with humans.

Oldest Ariel Photo in 1860.

The world's first photograph—or at least the oldest surviving photo—was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827.

In April 2019, NASA released the first known image of a black hole.

The first digital photo was taken earlier than you may have thought. Almost 20 years before the original Kodak digital camera, in 1957.

This daguerreotype by John W. Draper from 1840 is the first photo of the moon.

On July 16, 2010, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom uploaded the first post on Instagram.

John Quincy Adams holds the distinction of being the first U.S. president photographed, though he wasn't in office at the time. Captured at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1843.

It was only in 2009 that a digital camera was used to photograph POTUS.

In 1926 National Geographic photographer Charles Martin and botanist William Longley took the first underwater photograph in color.

Robert Cornelius's 1839 image that lays claim to the first self-portrait.

On November 8, 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe took a groundbreaking photograph at 16.9 million miles from the Sun. That's incredibly close when one considers that Earth is located 91 million miles from the Sun.

Carol Popp de Szathmari is the first known war photographer, capturing hundreds of images of the Crimean War.

On August 23, 1966, a lunar orbiter snapped this image of Earth from the Moon.

This 1848 daguerreotype of Manhattan's Upper West side is the oldest surviving photo of New York.

Physicist James Clerk Maxwell is responsible for taking the world's first color photograph, In 1855.