Figures From History Who Lived Long Enough To Be Photographed

Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis was born in 1808 and served in the Mexican-American War, as a Mississippi senator, and as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce, but he is most remembered as the Confederacy’s president during the Civil War. This photograph was shot in 1861, a few years before the Confederacy surrendered.

Jefferson Davis

John Herschel

Sir John Herschel was gifted in a variety of fields, including mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, and photography. He also created the blueprint and founded the Julian Day calendar, which is still used by astronomers today. Herschel lived between 1792 and 1871. Julia Margaret Cameron took this photograph in 1867.

John Herschel