I’m Polish with a passing interest in early photography who is about to again visit your beautiful country. I was wondering what is the oldest surviving photograph taken in current-day territorial Croatia? This would likely be in the then territory of the Austrian Empire of course. This search has proved difficult for me and the earliest I managed to find was an 1865 postcard of Zagreb found [here](http://singidunum-online.com/postcards-r39100-croatia-reproduc-of-the-postcard-of-zagreb-from-1865-p-4949.html?language=en), but I really doubt that’s the oldest there is. If anyone knows about it, or can easily find out about it, I’d be very thankful.
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If you don’t intertwine the question with some complaining, start a war between localpatriots or mention the new Zagreb mayor, you’ll probably have better luck getting that info in some museum or archive in a bigger city/town in Croatia.
Besides that, the only thing coming to my layman mind is to check HAZU, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
[Maybe on ebay](https://www.ebay.com/)
Oldest should be from Zagreb 1840.
https://www.zagreb.hr/zagreb-na-fotografiji/20131
Quickly I can’t find them on the net. This should be one of them in the article above I suppose. Or not, I do not have info. [Edit. Certainly it isn’t, there are cars on photo]
Ps. Here is one from 1860. from a reddit post. https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/okohs5/najstarija_fotografija_kaptola_odnosno_stare/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Here is the album from OP’s post. https://imgur.io/a/tEcBmBp
http://www.mgs.hr/2021/02/26/najstarija-fotografija-splita-autor-petar-zink-mgs-5472-a-b/
Photo of Split from 1859.
Some photos made in Zagreb, 19 century.
https://www.reddit.com/r/croatia/comments/13uqysq/stare_fotografije_zagreba_19_stoljece/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
OP from the link above might help.