Some cool image share images:
(animated stereo) The Ceiba, a large tropical tree. 1863
Image by Thiophene_Guy
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Details and History
The Library of Congress website offers a multitude of historical images, many with no known restrictions on use. This image is derived from the 1863 Constant Guillou stereograph depicting the Ceiba. The reverse text is rich with detail:
Amateur Photographic Exchange Club
Views in Cuba No. 4
The Ceiba
The Monarch of the Cuban Forests is decidedly the Ceiba. (Bombax Ceiba of Linnaeus). It presents one of the very strongest evidences of design in creation. In consequence of the great height of this tree (frequently 100 feet and upwards), it would be particularly liable to be overthrown by the hurricanes of the tropics, were it not supported at its base by triangular buttresses, perfectly calculated to resist the force of the winds; these buttresses are sometimes nine or ten feet high, seven or eight wide at the surface of the ground, and of about three or four inches in thickness. Towering above all other trees, it could not escape destruction by the vivid lightning of the tropical storms, were not its upper branches garnished with the countless hard points of a parasite of the cactus order, which serve to attract the electric fluid gently and imperceptibly. Measuring on the ground from point to point of the buttresses, one specimen was sixty-three feet ten inches in circumference.
Negative, Wet Collodion printed Sept., 1863
C. Guillou
615 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Copyright Advisory
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from the Library of Congress website, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. There are no known restrictions on publication.
LOC source page: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005683858/ .
Technical trivia
Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
(animated stereo) Victorian Era Fountain Gazing, circa 1880
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 circa 1880 Mangold & Son stereoview is from a series titled Hart's Daily Line Ocklawaha Steamers shows a man and woman standing behind a fountain. The Mangold studios were destroyed by fire along with the business district of Palatka, FL on 9/7/1884 but may have been rebuilt. His wares are advertised in an 1890 edition of The Photographic times, observing "Some of your readers may think that Florida has no scenery worth photographing".
A short list of J. G. Mangold's stereoviews is available on rootsweb.
Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:
secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:Hart%27s... .
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?G90F135_078ZF .
Technical trivia
Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
