{"id":276461,"date":"2018-11-28T04:25:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T04:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/28\/muirin007-ancientfaces-she-was-born-more-than\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T05:46:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:46:26","slug":"muirin007-ancientfaces-she-was-born-more-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/28\/muirin007-ancientfaces-she-was-born-more-than\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-276461 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/28\/muirin007-ancientfaces-she-was-born-more-than\/attachment\/276462\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_pinyk8zarr1r0i4y2o1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_pinyk8zarr1r0i4y2o1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_pinyk8zarr1r0i4y2o1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muirin007.tumblr.com\/post\/180421734845\/ancientfaces-she-was-born-more-than-200-years\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">muirin007<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ancientfaces.tumblr.com\/post\/180420901967\/she-was-born-more-than-200-years-ago-and-theres\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ancientfaces<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nShe was born more than 200 years ago and there\u2019s something about the<br \/>\nelderly in the 1800s that fascinates us. \u00a0Can you see her glasses? And<br \/>\nthat bonnet!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Victorian portraits of American Revolutionary War veterans are also fascinating!<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>This is <b>Lemuel Cook<\/b>, photographed in the 1860s and interviewed for the 1864 book,<i> The Last Men of the Revolution.<\/i> He enlisted in the war in 1781 at age 16 and served at the Battle of Brandywine and was present when the British surrendered at Yorktown. He died at the age of 106 in 1866, having lived through both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/46f3a4a957aeb4618a7f9361080f55a2\/tumblr_inline_pinyum37me1r927jb_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>Samuel Downing<\/b> was 15 when he joined the Continental Army and guarded forts in New York. He was born in 1764 and was roughly 100 years old when this photograph was taken:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/8582347f5b343d7bd799ad7f311e469f\/tumblr_inline_pinyzglMaS1r927jb_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>Albert Gallatin<\/b> was born in Switzerland in 1761. He served as a volunteer at Fort Machias in Maine. After the war, Gallatin served three terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, became the U.S. minister to France, Secretary of the Treasury, and helped found New York University. Gallatin died in 1849. This photo was taken in the 1840s, only a few years after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_photography#\/media\/File:RobertCornelius.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">first known portrait<\/a> of a human being was taken:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/7bcb1bb4d43d6fe806bd5d6cbb6524c6\/tumblr_inline_pinzifiNDP1r927jb_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>Abraham Wheelright<\/b> was born in 1757\u2013only one year after Mozart. He was 19 in 1776 when he joined an infantry regiment. Wheelright was present at the crossing of the Delaware (the event<a href=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/815zgCyWauL._SL1500_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> that famous painting depicts<\/a>. You know. The one where George Washington looks like he\u2019s on the cover of<i> Vogue.<\/i>) Wheelright also fought at the Battle of Princeton and the Battle of Trenton. He died in 1850, meaning the photo below, like Gallatin\u2019s picture, was taken when photography was growing in popularity but still in its infancy:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/e0c1314e413fa2fb45a3c442d321032c\/tumblr_inline_pinzpuxuvv1r927jb_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The fact that photos exist of men who fought in the Revolutionary War\u2013 more than 240 years ago\u2013really brings things into perspective: we can look into the faces of men who knew Washington, who went from candles to gas lamps, from hamlets to major cities, from wooden ships to steamboats. History is<i> right there\u2013<\/i>it isn\u2019t a cold marble bust on the mantle. It\u2019s living and breathing, and very, very close to us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>muirin007: ancientfaces: She was born more than 200 years ago and there\u2019s something about the elderly in the 1800s that fascinates us. \u00a0Can you see her glasses? And that bonnet! Victorian portraits of American Revolutionary War veterans are also fascinating!\u00a0This is Lemuel Cook, photographed in the 1860s and interviewed for the 1864 book, The Last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/28\/muirin007-ancientfaces-she-was-born-more-than\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,138,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276463,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276461\/revisions\/276463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}