(animated stereo) Antebellum Independence Day, 7/4/1859

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Details and History

The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 1859 view of the Rag Rorums celebration at St Johnsbury, Vermont is by F. B. Gage. As an early pioneer of artistic photography he documented life in Vermont from 1850 until his death in 1874. Lisby1 offers a detailed biographical sketch in the caption to this 1858 family portrait.

 

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Copyright Advisory

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

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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?G92F050_014F .

 

Technical trivia

Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.

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Uploaded on December 4, 2011
Taken on July 4, 1859