NYPL's moving 3D gifs

A blogger at his site called Cursive Buildings has been publishing animated gifs of old photographs from the New York Public Library's online collection. He even inspired me to make a few of my own.

I saw today that the NYPL was also inspired by him and created a webpage where you can make your own animated gifs from the stereographs in their collection. What a great way for a library to use the internet to play with and share their physical collection.

I made a few myself today.

Horse race in Poughkeepsie, NY in the 1890s

GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator

Baseball game in 1880 in Rochester

GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator

The Perkins Institution and Mass. School for the Blind. 1862?-1885?


GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator