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(animated stereo) In the ruins of Chambersburg (detail)

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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 July, 1864 image by Charles E. Meyer shows a woman in dark clothing walking through the ruins of Chambersburg PA. The source stereograph is titled North-West corner public square, Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa., destroyed by the rebels under McCausland, July 30th, 1864 .

 

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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/2011648007/ .

 

Technical trivia

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

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