The picture above is reputed to be the world’s first photograph. It was taken in 1826 and was developed by French photographer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. He called this process “heliography” or sun drawing and the entire process took eight hours.
The next picture below is reputed to be the world’s first color photograph. Taken by by Louis Ducos du Hauron in 1872, the photo is of a view of Angouleme in Southern France.
mulatto diaries 
That’s a lot of work for that first one…I honestly can’t tell what that is