Thursday, February 2, 2012

These gifs made with old stereographs* are so intriguing!  What an interesting way that something as weirdly niche and irrelevant as a gif can be coupled with a correlating oddity of media from a century ago. Though they are a little vertigo-inducing to look at. . .

GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator - view more at http://stereo.nypl.org/gallery/index

Main corridor, White House. 1859?-1910?





GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator - view more at http://stereo.nypl.org/gallery/index
 Bicycle Parade (Safety.), Rochester, N.Y [ca. 1895] [1860?-1900?]

GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator - view more at http://stereo.nypl.org/gallery/index
L. A. W., bicycle race, ordinary, the finish. 1865?-1880? 1890

More info for the curious here.  You can even make your own, if you're so inclined!


*double pictures taken simultaneously, a couple inches apart in an effort to replicate the binocularity of human eyes)