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Court House, Kilkenny, 1990

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Court House, Kilkenny, 1990
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Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Taken by photographer, Dr. Richard Freyne.

You can compare this view of Court House at Kilkenny with its companion photo taken approximately 82 years earlier as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Date: Saturday, 1 December 1990 at 11:00

NLI Ref.: LPP_29A/4A


(animated stereo) Destroying Atlanta's Railroad, 1864
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Image by Thiophene_Guy
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The Library of Congress website offers a multitude of historical images, many with no known restrictions on use. This image is derived from an 1864 stereograph titled Finishing railroad iron, Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 14th 1864 . Atlanta was destroyed during Sherman's March to the Sea, with only the hospitals and churches being spared after a last-minute plea. The Atlanta campaign was integral to the 1939 film Gone With The Wind

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Fred Hall notes the common name for this procedure was making Sherman's neckties.

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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. Library of Congress web address for this image: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005681124 .

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Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes. Rotations:Left, -0.2; Right, +0.2


(animated stereo) Photographers Himes and Rood, circa 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 image is derived from the 1860-1863 stereograph, possibly by Edwin Emerson, depicting Troy N.Y., C.F.H. (Charles F. Himes) and Prof. O.N. Rood, Warren's house in background, looking n.

Both were members of the Amateur Photographic Exchange club, which functioned from 1860-1863 when its secretary was called to war. Many of the earliest surviving stereographs in the LOC collection were generated via this exchange. As noted in a brief history (Image 1952, vol1, issue2, page4) one of their correspondents was Oliver Wendell Holmes. He invented the Holmes stereoscope and gave the design away. The instrument proved so popular it drove most rivals out of the market.

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. There are no known restrictions on publication.
LOC source page: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005686184/ .

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

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