A few nice image share images I found:
(animated stereo) Children cycling in the park (c.a. 1890?)
Image by Thiophene_Guy
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Details and History
The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This nineteenth century Union View Co. stereoview shows children cycling in Steuben Park, Utica, N.Y. A high wheel, or penny-farthing, and two heavy tricycles are of a pre-1880 vintage that quickly disappeared during a bicycle boom in the 1890s.
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Images with bicycles.
Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steuben_Park,_Utica,_N.Y,... .
This image is also available with bibliographic notes from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?G91F162_049ZF .
Technical trivia
Contrast was enhanced using Jeff Masamori's quick method (generate a copy, equalize histogram, then blend with the original). Subsequent image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
(animated stereo) Moccassin Bill's daughter
Image by Thiophene_Guy
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Details and History
The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 19th century stereoview is titled Mocassin Bill's daughter. A circa 1880 Colorado photo in which she seems a similar age shows her with Moccasin Bill Perkins (1824-1904).
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Images with Victorian era fashions.
Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mocassin_Bill%27s_daughte... .
This image is also available with bibliographic notes from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm... .
Technical trivia
Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
(animated stereo) Original Ferris wheel, 1893
Image by Thiophene_Guy
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Details and History
The Wikimedia Commons offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 1893 B. W. Kilburn stereoview, shows The wonder of the age, Midway Plaisance, World's Columbian Exposition. The eponymous designer of the wheel, George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., constructed it as a "tallest ever" landmark for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This wheel was moved to St. Louis for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition then was demolished in 1906.
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Other Kilburn images.
Images with Ferris wheels.
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Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:
secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:The_wond...
Technical trivia
The image was darkened (PictureWindow Pro) then subsequent manipulations and gif generation were performed with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
