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Sils, Swizerland, 1917

My grandmother at nine in the summer of 1917 taken by her father.
I just returned from a trip to visit her, and a friend had a number of our old family photos scanned. The scans aren't great, but then the photographs are inconsistent in their quality. I'm pretty sure he wasn't using a light meter.

There are a lot of these photos, and they are on glass, can be viewed in a stereoscopic gizmo to make them appear 3-d. My grandmother has always referred to them as "Taxiphotos". If you know anything about this process, I'd appreciate the information

And lastly, I am profoundly grateful to have this extraordinary photographic memory of my family's history. I doubt very much the CD I have will last as long as the photographs themselves, but since they are housed in Switzerland at the moment, at least I can browse them when the mood strikes.
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Location
Engadine
Equipment Used
not sure
Exposure
really not sure!
Film & Developer
again... not sure!!
Paper & Developer
glass slide
suzanne

it seems that the photographs could stereo views on plates.
they could be magic lantern slides.
there is a little but about their manufacture here
they are like a "chrome" sandwiched between
2 pieces of glass. there is usually black tape around the edges ...
to make your computer images 3D, you cross your eyes, and move your face back and forth looking at
the computer screen, you will notice the 2 images merge together
and you will see a stereo / 3D image. the device they might have used
was a stereo-opticon ..
you can find stuff like that here

what a neat thing to have, your family on film and glass!
 
Hello,

I can't help except for this link:

http://www.antikvarlden.se/samlingen/stereoskop-le-taxiphoto-1915.aspx?article=8354

which is, I believe, the stereo-opticon.

However, the stereo effect is quite evident on my screen, which is not always the case.

Cheers,
Clarence
 
SuzanneR
Thank you both!!

Clarence... that's it!! We have that same machine for these photos... thank you so much!! I will have to get that link translated. I appreciate the links!! :smile:

OH.. and btw, today she celebrates her 99th birthday!!
 
Drew B.
This is a great find...especially if you're into genealogy! Do you know who was the first in your family to come to the US..and where they went to live?
 
If you view pairs of 3d images using the cross eyed method you need to swap the original left and right images (since your left eye is viewing the image on the right and vice versa). Just mirroring the whole thing doesn't seem to work though. I took the liberty of taking a temporary screen grab of these images and swapping them and they give a really good 3d effect that is much less strain on the eyes than without swapping them.
Suzanne, if you post any more (and please do, they're fascinating) perhaps you could swap the left and right images before posting (and then have a laugh thinking of hundreds of people squinting cross eyed at their computer screens).
 
SuzanneR
Thanks for the comments. Drew.. my grandmother came to the states when my dad was 2 in 1939. She moved back to Switzerland a year or two after her husband died. She lived here.. in California for about 30 years. She actually changed her citizenship 5 times during her life!!!

Anyway, this side of my family is mostly still Swiss, she had two brothers neither of whom had children, and several cousins most with descendants still there.

Crispinuk.. and Krock... when I come across more I like, I will post them, but I won't bore everyone with too many!! Honestly, I'm not always sure what the "real" orientation of the images are, as they were scanned "sideways" and I rotated them in PS!!
 
What a great way to celebrate family...I can just imagine someone in 90 years from now looking through old boxes and finding a 1GB Flash pen and wondering exactly what it is.....unfortunately the link to a photograph wont be immediately obvious :-(( K
 

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