Welcome to the people area of YesterdayTimes.com! In this section we have a links to historical people from a variety of areas. Many of the people are referenced through articles and blog posts throughout the site.
Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor
was a French photographic inventor. He started experimenting in 1847 with negatives made with albumen on glass.
Born January 10, 1851 in Albany, New York. Catharine Weed Barnes was an editor for the American Amateur Photographer, an advocate for women photographers, and a photographer.
Father Jacques Marquette was a Jesuit Missionary from France. He was born in 1637 and founded the first European settlement in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.
Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, orator, writer, statesman, and a leader in social reformation. Mr. Douglass was born in 1818 and died in 1895.
Was an American photographer who promoted photography as a career for women. She was trained as an artist, then chose photography as her artistic medium.
Katawabeda was the son of Biauswah II. He inherited his father’s chieftainship of the Sandy Lake Band and became the first “general ruler” the Minnesota Ojibways ever had.