(animated stereo) Victorian Era Fountain Gazing, circa 1880
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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.
(animated stereo) Victorian Era Fountain Gazing, circa 1880
To animate the image scroll down to the first comment below or view original size.
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.