Fort Garland, Co. - 1874
3d red cyan anaglyph from stereograph - NARA-524025. Left and right tif file from Wikimedia Commons.
Title: Fort Garland
Date: 1874
Photographer: Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Notes: A correspondent from the New York magazine "Appletons' Journal" accompanied the Wheeler Expedition and published an account of his visit to Fort Garland in the April 29, 1876 edition; a couple brief excerpts below:
“Our cavalcade is composed of Lieutenant Morrison’s division of the Wheeler Exploring Expedition and both men and animals are looking forward to the close of the tedious day’s march…..Across the low divide that separates this valley from the next beyond, we obtain a glimpse of our destination – a rectangular group of brick-red adobe buildings, flat-roofed, squat, and altogether dispiriting in their unmitigated ugliness, with the United States flag clinging to a central staff… And when we are well inside the walls of the fort, we are struck with immediate commiseration for all the unfortunate officers and men condemned to live in so desolate a place.”
"While we sat on the bench in front of the sutler’s store one evening, the old fort was transformed into a very pretty object under the magical influence of the brilliant sunset. The surrounding sandy plain melted into gold, and the mountains were flooded with purple. A pale star rose over the eastern ridge, and while in the west the sky was glowing with gorgeous colors, in the east the light was expiring in a deepening blue. But its only for a moment in a summer’s day that Garland looks inviting, and as we left it to resume our course we again pitied the men condemned to live the year round in this lonely spot."
Full article at the link below - pages 564 & 565:
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acw8433.1-15.371/568:8?rgn=f...
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Timothy O'Sullivan took quite a few stereographs of Fort Garland and many of the same individuals in this photo are in some of the others, including a couple of my previous 3D flickr postings at:
www.flickr.com/photos/110677094@N05/25705755203/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110677094@N05/36933180050/in/photos...
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Links to history of Ft Garland:
coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/fort-garland-0
armyhistory.org/fort-garland-colorado/
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / Civil War Trust.
Fort Garland, Co. - 1874
3d red cyan anaglyph from stereograph - NARA-524025. Left and right tif file from Wikimedia Commons.
Title: Fort Garland
Date: 1874
Photographer: Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Notes: A correspondent from the New York magazine "Appletons' Journal" accompanied the Wheeler Expedition and published an account of his visit to Fort Garland in the April 29, 1876 edition; a couple brief excerpts below:
“Our cavalcade is composed of Lieutenant Morrison’s division of the Wheeler Exploring Expedition and both men and animals are looking forward to the close of the tedious day’s march…..Across the low divide that separates this valley from the next beyond, we obtain a glimpse of our destination – a rectangular group of brick-red adobe buildings, flat-roofed, squat, and altogether dispiriting in their unmitigated ugliness, with the United States flag clinging to a central staff… And when we are well inside the walls of the fort, we are struck with immediate commiseration for all the unfortunate officers and men condemned to live in so desolate a place.”
"While we sat on the bench in front of the sutler’s store one evening, the old fort was transformed into a very pretty object under the magical influence of the brilliant sunset. The surrounding sandy plain melted into gold, and the mountains were flooded with purple. A pale star rose over the eastern ridge, and while in the west the sky was glowing with gorgeous colors, in the east the light was expiring in a deepening blue. But its only for a moment in a summer’s day that Garland looks inviting, and as we left it to resume our course we again pitied the men condemned to live the year round in this lonely spot."
Full article at the link below - pages 564 & 565:
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acw8433.1-15.371/568:8?rgn=f...
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Timothy O'Sullivan took quite a few stereographs of Fort Garland and many of the same individuals in this photo are in some of the others, including a couple of my previous 3D flickr postings at:
www.flickr.com/photos/110677094@N05/25705755203/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110677094@N05/36933180050/in/photos...
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Links to history of Ft Garland:
coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/fort-garland-0
armyhistory.org/fort-garland-colorado/
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / Civil War Trust.