With a bit of luck, you might have even unearthed some photographs from the early 19th century.
There are many contenders.
Conrad Heyer
Conrad Heyer is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive.
However, his year of birth is contentious.
Heyer was born in the village of Waldoboro, then part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Heyers parents themselves emigrated to the US in 1752.
Mary Munroe Sanderson
Mary Munroe Sanderson was born in 1748, in Lexington, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
She died in 1852, at the age of 104 years.
If her reported age is correct, she was born in 1749, a contemporary of Mary Munroe Sanderson.
Ezra Green
Ezra Green, Jr. was born in 1746 in Malden, Massachusetts.
He graduated at Harvard College and became a surgeon in the army of the Revolution.
He died in 1847, at the age of 101.
He fought in the Continental Army during the American revolution, and later became a shoemaker.
On the occasion of his 100th birthday, Adams posed for a daguerreotype portrait.
He died in 1849, aged 104.
He posed for this photo in 1846, when he was 103 years old.
He died shortly afterwards.
A veteran of the Revolutionary War, Owen lived up to the ripe old age of 107.
Caesar’s purported birthplace was the Bethlehem House property in Bethlehem, New York, owned by Rensselaer Nicoll.
He died in 1852.
