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(animated stereo) New Orleans main landing, c.a. 1870

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Details and History

The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 19th century Samuel T. Blessing stereoview shows New Orleans Principal steamboat landing, from Gravier street, looking down the levee. This image is indicated circa 1866-70 at the Steamboat Times.

 

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Copyright Advisory

This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Principal_steamboat_landi... .

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?G90F204_003F .

 

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.

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Uploaded on November 23, 2011
Taken circa 1870