A few nice image source images I found:
(animated stereo) Altoona group detail, 1860
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 1860 Pennsylvania Photographic Society stereograph is titled Group taken at W.H.W.'s residence in Altoona, Pa. The reverse offers this cryptic identification: Mary H r; Mary W n; Joe W n (likely photographer and engineer Joseph Miller Wilson); John T s; & Mrs. W n .
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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. The original image has no known restrictions on use: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005686140/ .
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) Sanjuk Dar, Damascus, Syria (c.a. 1920)
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 scene is from the early 20th century American Colony (Jerusalem) stereograph titled Damascus (Esh-Sham). Street of Sanjak Dar. A closeup of the faces in the lower right is animated here.
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Browse the 19th century or by decade: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s.
Browse the 20th century or by decade: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s.
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. The original image has no known restrictions on use: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2004001234/PP/ .
Technical trivia
Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
