(animated stereo) Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1860
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Details and History
The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This circa 1860 Langenheim, Loyd & Co. image shows docks and ships at the Philidelphia Navy Yard one year before the onset of the Civil War. This appears to show a steam sloop in the foreground and a sail-less steamship behind. Though this ship is unidentified, it seems to have similarities to the larger USS Roanoke before conversion to an ironclad. Contemporary hybrid sail/steam ships for which images have been found include the steam sloop USS Pawnee, the screw steamship USS Mohawk (steamship Caledonia), and the screw gunboat USS Wyandotte.
In the US, brothers William and Frederick Langenheim introduced Steriopticon ("Magic Lantern") technology in 1850. The brothers, early pioneers in photographic processes, were also the first to produce stereo views domestically.
Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain. 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?G91F360_009F .
Technical trivia
The digital image was enhanced by adjusting the color curve in HSV color space to fit image detail to the visible window (dark details were darkened and highlights were lightened), then blending this darkened copy with the original. Subsequent image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
(animated stereo) Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1860
To see the animated image scroll down to the first comment below or view original size for the large.
Details and History
The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This circa 1860 Langenheim, Loyd & Co. image shows docks and ships at the Philidelphia Navy Yard one year before the onset of the Civil War. This appears to show a steam sloop in the foreground and a sail-less steamship behind. Though this ship is unidentified, it seems to have similarities to the larger USS Roanoke before conversion to an ironclad. Contemporary hybrid sail/steam ships for which images have been found include the steam sloop USS Pawnee, the screw steamship USS Mohawk (steamship Caledonia), and the screw gunboat USS Wyandotte.
In the US, brothers William and Frederick Langenheim introduced Steriopticon ("Magic Lantern") technology in 1850. The brothers, early pioneers in photographic processes, were also the first to produce stereo views domestically.
Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain. 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?G91F360_009F .
Technical trivia
The digital image was enhanced by adjusting the color curve in HSV color space to fit image detail to the visible window (dark details were darkened and highlights were lightened), then blending this darkened copy with the original. Subsequent image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.