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Locomotive J 41 class train at Te Aute Station during a trial run from Napier to Waipukurau, 1887

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  • Photos of the Past said:
    View this Wiggled (pseudo 3D)
  • John Wattie said:
    Pseudoscopic (reversed stereo) is viewed cross-eyed by experienced stereoscopists, many of whom prefer image pairs this way round. This is how the picture comes out of a stereoscopic camera (which inverts, like all cameras do) and the two images have to be transposed to produce parallel eye stereo. Wiggled works in a way but is not true stereo.
  • Peppin ANAGLYPHE said:
    Same problems inverted, but the quality of stereo is very great!!!

Members of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in their bunks below the ground at La Fosse Farm

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  • jamica1 said:
    claustrophobes need not apply!
  • jamica1 said:
    You say in the caption 5 December 2017. Do you perhaps mean 1917?
  • Antonio R. Tabares said:
    jamica1 👍

Aerial view of Johnsonville, Wellington, 1939

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  • chrisbwah said:
    Took me ages to work out which way this is looking, but I suspect it's south. The main road in the centre is J'ville road, the gorge is the small track going off towards 11 o'clock with Fraser Ave continuing straight ahead and then bending right. Broderick Rd is the road going off to the right where it will cross the rail lines visible in the bottom right.
  • National Library NZ on The Commons said:
    Thank you! I took one look at it and thought "oohhh, that's too hard for me to identify...."

    -- Courtney
  • Jessica Durham said:
    I can see my house! I've been trying to find an aerial view in the same direction from the 1920s too but no luck yet

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