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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Digitalized Moving Images from the Mid 1800's to Early 1900's









Using gif animation trickery, Joshua Heineman has been adding an extra dimensions to old pictures from the New York Public Library. I really love these images from the mid 1800's to the early 1900's USA. I've had a long and simmering love affair with history and archeology and I find these images from a younger United States during the Industrial Revolution really engaging.

1. Photographer 18 stories above Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1906
2. Broadway, New York City, circa 1860
3.“Powder monkey” on the Pawnee, American civil war, circa 1863
4.Vine-covered structure in Central Park, New York City, circa 1882
5.Cooking classes at Proximity Cotton Mill, North Carolina, 1909
6.Chinatown opium den, San Francisco, circa 1884
7.Chinatown, San Francisco, circa 1884

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