John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed (1842)

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Historical Figures Who Lived Long Enough to Be Photographed

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Historical Figures Who Lived Long Enough to Be Photographed

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This is Civil War veteran Jacob Miller, a man who was shot right between the eyes and lived for 17 more years

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American civil war soldier Jacob Miller was shot through the head and left for dead by his fellow soldiers. He walked around with not only a visible bullet hole, but a bullet in his head for 31 years.

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My third great grandfather was a Quaker abolitionist who helped people escape slavery and get into Canada

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My grandfather's graduation photo from Yale medical school, 1927.

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John Brown (Abolitionist), c. 1856

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A lovely family portrait from the 1800s

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My great grandfather. Year unknown.

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Possible never before seen Billy The Kid and Doc Surlock photo.

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Some photos of people smiling and having fun during the Victorian Era (late 1800s)

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My husband’s great-granduncle and wife c. 1900 in western Virginia. Born of an enslaved woman and her owner, he was raised as a free “mulatto” by his white stepmother (who co-owned his biological mother). Moved out of town and passed as white throughout his adult life.