Thanks to the invention of photography, the 19th century is the earliest point in history that we can see as it actually was. Steadily less blurry images tell a story of industrialisation and ...

The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an image of Dolley Madison that's believed to be the first photograph of a first lady. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the first ...

Henry Pointer, "The Old Batchelor" (post-1860s) (image courtesy BG/OLOU / Alamy) We might think of the preponderance of pet photographs as a modern phenomenon, but a new exhibition at the National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian’s ...

In 1885, Wilson Bentley, a farmer in Vermont, became the first known person to photograph a snowflake. He would document 5,000 of them in his lifetime. In a new series for the first day of each month, ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US first lady. The quarter-plate daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley Madison, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently ...