{"id":8608,"date":"2018-04-06T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T08:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2018-04-06T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T08:30:27","slug":"seeing-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/04\/06\/seeing-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing double"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8609\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/hou-98-0070-lhr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8609 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/hou-98-0070-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Washburn House, corner of Evergreen and Summer Streets, c. 1865\" width=\"628\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Washburn House, corner of Evergreen and Summer Streets, c. 1865<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the Local History Room we have a number of stereoscopic photographs, known as stereographs or stereoviews. These prints feature two nearly identical images, side by side, typically mounted on a 3.5-by-7-inch card. When viewed through a stereoscope, they create the illusion of a single three-dimensional picture. They were popular among commercial and amateur photographers from the late 1850s to the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>The three stereoviews featured here belong to a series called &#8220;Views of Marshfield and vicinity&#8221; by M. Chandler of Marshfield.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8610\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-98-0001-lhr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8610 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-98-0001-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Main Street, looking south, c. 1865\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main Street, looking south, c. 1865<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8611\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-98-0002-lhr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8611 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Local_History_Images\/pla-98-0002-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Hill, looking north, c. 1865\" width=\"640\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Hill, looking north, c. 1865<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Images from the Local History Room Image Collection (IC7).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the Local History Room we have a number of stereoscopic photographs, known as stereographs or stereoviews. These prints feature two nearly identical images, side by side, typically mounted on a 3.5-by-7-inch card. When viewed through a stereoscope, they create the illusion of a single three-dimensional picture. They were popular among commercial and amateur &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2018\/04\/06\/seeing-double\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeing double&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,292],"tags":[134,239],"class_list":["post-8608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lhc","category-pique-of-the-week","tag-houses","tag-stereoviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}