History’s Early Photos That Still Carry Serious Weight

More than 5 billion photos are taken across the globe every single day.

That means, the average person takes roughly 15 photos per day, primarily on a smartphone.

That’s why some of these early shots from the late 1800s still hit hard. There’s no filter, editing, or “let’s take another” — just raw, first-ever moments captured by people who were (obviously) unaware that 100 years later, we’d all have the capacity to take hundreds of photos a day, without thinking twice.

So, I did some digging, and these are history’s earliest photos that still look pretty damn interesting.

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Jonnychiwa via Wikimedia Commons