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125 photographs of life in Palestine before the British Mandate, ca. 1896–1919: publicdomainreview.org/collect

Kevin Russell

@publicdomainrev

Those aren't photographs, those are stereographs. Slightly offset images that, when viewed in a device so each image goes to just one eye, creates a full 3d image.

@kevinrns Kevin, they are both. Stereographs are composed of two photographs side by side. It's not a one or the other situation and I think one should be able to refer to stereographs (made with photographs) as photographs without being "corrected".

@publicdomainrev

Yes of course.
Not merely a photograph.

That was twitter, I'm not correcting you, I'm celebrating the goofy wonderful old tech. Its a great find. It IS a photo, and two photos. And specially taken photos for a device. All is true, your post a gift.

I look forward to more finds on this account.