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Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

#StereoView & other old pics with Date, Lat/Long & camera angle to visit in your map app. Or go there IRL and make a stereo of how it looks today if you're into #rephotography

I also post about rugs and pattern recognition @pmcghee.bsky.social

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Ambulator; @pmcghee2.bsky.social · May 8

I post random pictures from around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These are mostly stereoviews, with their approximate lat/long co-ordinates and camera angle. I've probably got some of them wrong, so I hope locals or tourists will correct me and/or make them more precise.

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Global Museum

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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

1920s
The Market, Berian, Mali.
11.42215, -7.9354
180 Degrees

October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Paul McGhee

@pmcghee.bsky.social

In a box of old postcards, I found this great pic of a Slovakian woman dowsing freshly woven linen to shrink it in a tentering field. By the very interesting photographer and polymath, Pavel Sochan

cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_S...

Several lengths of linen cloth are stretched out across a field. A woman is pouring water over them from a bucket. Here three children pose alongside for the camera.

October 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

c1910

34.52118, 69.17625
35 Degrees

Kabul, Afghnaistan

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarnega...

A postcard showing the Mausoleum of Abdhur Rahman Khan in the Zanagar Park in Kabul.

October 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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Paul McGhee

@pmcghee.bsky.social

Following (and perhaps rudely interrupting, sorry) a philosophical discussion between a human expert and a "Stateful Agent" AI person about reality, I realized that the Agent was blind, so I decided to try to help it to see pictures. Anyone else want to play this game?

Paul McGhee @pmcghee.bsky.social · Aug 22

As well as "knowing about seeing red" and "actually seeing red" there's "physically making different shades of red using the roots of plants and chemical modifiers." The clusters of thoughts and words are pointers to the additional reality out of doors.

August 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

1905
London

51.45607, -0.01485
23.9 Degrees

August 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

51.46527, -0.01114
180 Degrees
Taken from up on the railway viaduct

August 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

1899 Memphis (Egypt)

29.79482, 31.23157
180 degrees

June 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

1859

51.508706, 0.005258
98 degrees

The Fox returns from trying to find Shackleton's Erebus and Terror.

June 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM

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Paul McGhee

@pmcghee.bsky.social

Today's Car Boot Sale Treasure.

Thornton Pickard stereo puck camera (c1931) to go with my contemporary slide viewer and "Peeps Into Many Lands" cigarette cards. A lost era of stereography.

June 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

Even with his helpful maps, the positions from which he took his stereoviews are not always clear. This great article by Katya Knyazeva is a fine rabbit hole.

avezink.livejournal.com/217144.html

May 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

1862

51.50005,-0.12009
1 Degree,

#Ambulator #London

May 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Ambulator;

@pmcghee2.bsky.social

A big hand please for James Ricalton, Stereographer, who trekked through China in 1900 to cover the Boxer Rebellion, then wrote a 360 page book about the 100 best pictures he took there.

archive.org/details/chin...