Cool Image Website images

A few nice image website images I found:

(animated stereo) Union officer with "contraband", 1862

Image by Thiophene_Guy
To see the animated image source scroll down to the first comment below or view original size (look above in the "actions" menu).

Details and History
The Library of Congress website offers a multitude of historical images, many with no known restrictions on use. This image is from the 19th century James F. Gibson stereograph titled Cumberland Landing, Virginia. Group at Mr. Foller's farm. Liberated slaves were treated as contraband or captured property at this time. The confiscation act of 1861 allowed seizing Confederate property but did not clarify the fate of captured slaves. One Union general gained notoriety for general order No. 11 which freed all slaves in areas under his control. President Lincoln countermanded this order amid concerns of the political consequences in four slave holding border states that remained in the Union. Two months after this image was taken President Lincoln proposed the emancipation proclamation, which freed slaves in Confederate territories only.

Quick Links to related Animated Stereo Images
Images from the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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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. The original image has no known restrictions on use: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005950/PP/ .

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

(animated stereo) Independence Day in Marengo, 1896

Image by Thiophene_Guy
To animate the image scroll down to the first comment below or view original size.

Details and History
The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 1896 S. L. Pratt stereograph records the independence day festivities in Marengo, Illinois. A simple Ferris wheel and a cannon are the major attractions.

Quick Links to related animated stereo images:
Images with Ferris wheels.
Native American people.
Browse the 19th century or by decade: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s.
Browse the 20th century or by decade: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s.

Copyright Advisory
This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4th_of_July_%281896%29_ce... .
This image is also available with bibliographic notes from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?g90f162_038zf .

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