Not -exactly- on topic but close enough, I think. And VERY interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Heyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Heyer)
A photo of a Revolutionary War veteran.
I'm sure someone else has noticed this before, but I stumbled across it today and had to share.
Very interesting. He certainly lived a long life relative to most people in those days!
A little history on this first portrait photography technique, introduced in 1839. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype