(animated stereo) Bismarck, Dakota Territory (9/3/1883)
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Details and History
The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 1883 stereoview shows a busy street in Bismarck, Dakota Territory (now North Dakota). The city was founded barely a decade before but became an important freight transportation center after the Black Hills gold fields were discovered in 1874.
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American old west themed.
Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landing_of_the_Villard_an... .
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?G90F081_026ZF .
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.
(animated stereo) Bismarck, Dakota Territory (9/3/1883)
To animate the image scroll down to the second 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 1883 stereoview shows a busy street in Bismarck, Dakota Territory (now North Dakota). The city was founded barely a decade before but became an important freight transportation center after the Black Hills gold fields were discovered in 1874.
Quick Links to related animated stereo images:
American old west themed.
Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landing_of_the_Villard_an... .
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?G90F081_026ZF .
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.