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(animated stereo) decorated San Francisco, circa 1890s

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The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This late ninteenth century stereograph, by an unknown photographer, looks down Spring street while decorated for a parade or patriotic holiday. The upper banner likely welcomes the Ancient Order of United Workmen, an early fraternal benefit society that evolved into a life insurance company.

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Lewistown_Station

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Lewistown_Station

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The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This E. & H. T. Anthony view of the railroad station at Lewistown, PA may date to the 1860s. Lewistown was a crossroads for rail traffic, due to its central PA location, until the twentieth century.

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(animated stereo) It's in the book, circa 1870

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The Library of Congress offers a multitude of historical images online, many needing no license to redistribute. This image from the circa 1867-1873 Sophus Williams stereograph is titled [Woman looking at book as another woman points to something in the book].

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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/96519653/ .

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(animated stereo) Meiji-era Sakura Watching

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The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Okinawa Soba's stream, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. Soba-san notes that the original B&W image, which he has titled Gazing at Blossoms in a Rustic Park of Old Japan, dates to the 19th century. This is one of many contact prints (proofs) from the studio of master photographer T. Enami.

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Okinawa Soba posted several CC licensed stereoimages, including the largest available collection documenting Japanese life and culture from the Meiji period through the early 20th century. Most have no known restrictions on publication and the digital images are shared under a creative commons share-alike license.

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Image rotations, resizing, alignment, and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes. Scaling: Left, 100.2; Right, 99.6

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(animated stereo) March of the Boys' Brigade, 1899

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The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This circa 1899 R. Y. Young image, published by the American Stereoscopic Company, is titled Boys' brigade, Philadelphia. Peace Jubilee. With the motto "Sure and Stedfast" (sic), the Boys Brigade is an organization striving to combine drill and other fun activities with Christian values. As noted by Robert Peterson in the Scouting Magazine article Marching to a Different Drummer the organization's US affiliates largely defected to the nascent Boy Scouts of America at its inception. Steadfast was apparently no match for "Be Prepared", the scout motto.

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Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.

(animated stereo) proofreader Sophie Baldwin, 1901

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The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 1901 Thomas R. Lewis stereograph, from Cambridgeport Mass., shows proofreader Sophie Baldwin and an assistant at work in her office.

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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.

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(animated stereo) The Ceiba, a large tropical tree. 1863

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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.

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Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.

(animated stereo) Victorian Era Fountain Gazing, circa 1880

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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.

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(animated stereo) Children cycling in the park (c.a. 1890?)

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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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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

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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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Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.

(animated stereo) Original Ferris wheel, 1893

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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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(animated stereo) Officer taking a break, pre 1890s

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The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 19th century American Stereoscopic Company stereoview shows a policeman sitting beside the path.

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(animated stereo) Meiji-era Jinriksha Ride

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The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Okinawa Soba's stream, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. Soba-san notes that the hand tinted gelatin print, titled Japanese ladies out for a jinriksha ride, dates to the 19th century. The minimal color variations observed between images indicate the extraordinary skill of the artists at Enami's studio.

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Okinawa Soba posted several CC licensed stereoimages, including the largest available collection documenting Japanese life and culture from the Meiji period through the early 20th century. Most have no known restrictions on publication and the digital images are shared under a creative commons share-alike license.

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Image rotations, resizing, alignment, and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes. Rotation: Left, -0.1; Right, +0.1; Scaling: L, 99.3; Right, 100.1

(animated stereo) Sakura in Nogeyama, 1898

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The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Okinawa Soba's stream, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. Soba-san notes that this hand tinted view of Cherry Blossoms at Nogeyama park, Yokohama, dates to the 19th century.

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Okinawa Soba posted several CC licensed stereoimages, including the largest available collection documenting Japanese life and culture from the Meiji period through the early 20th century. Most have no known restrictions on publication and the digital images are shared under a creative commons share-alike license. The original page is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2506743153/

Technical trivia
Image rotations, resizing, alignment, and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes. Scaling: Left, 99.6; Right,100.4 The gif does not appear as sharp as the original due to rescaling on the small original.