The document outlines several "first photographs" throughout history, including the first photograph taken in the 1800s by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, the first color photograph taken in 1861 using the three color-ray method, and the first digital photograph taken in 1957 from a digital scan. Some of the other notable first photographs mentioned are the first photograph of a person taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838, the first self-portrait taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839, and the first photograph taken of Earth from the moon by Lunar Orbiter in 1966.