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(animated stereo) Altoona group, 1860

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Details and History

The Library of Congress website offers a multitude of historical images, many with no known restrictions on use. This 1860 Pennsylvania Photographic Society stereograph is titled Group taken at W.H.W.'s residence in Altoona, Pa. The reverse offers this cryptic identification: Mary H r; Mary W n; Joe W n (likely photographer and engineer Joseph Miller Wilson); John T s; & Mrs. W n .

 

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Copyright Advisory

The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from the Library of Congress website, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. The original image has no known restrictions on use: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005686140/ .

 

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 December 9, 2011
Taken on July 28, 1860