Created with NYPL’s new Stereogranimator, which lets users create .gifs out of the library’s archive of over 40,000 19th century stereoscopic images.
“Photographers around the world produced millions of stereoscopic views between 1850 and 1930…Around the world, independent and entrepreneurial photographers broke into the growing market for illustrations of all types of subjects: local history and events, grand landscapes, foreign monuments, charming genre scenes, portraits of notables and urban architecture. War and disasters such as floods, fires, train-wrecks, and earthquakes were enormously popular subjects.”—NYPL