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Man 'catching' a shark, [ca 1910]

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  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • Jens Roesner said:
    Looks photoshopped :D Kids these days, eh? ;)
  • National Library NZ on The Commons said:
    I thought it was great that in the fuller description of the photo, the cataloguer felt compelled to tell us the shark had been superimposed over the original photograph. Can you imagine if that had been a genuine shot!?! -Chelsea
  • Sam said:
    Seems to be a genuine image of a very dead shark superimposed to suit. They do look hideous after been dead awhile...and so do people.
  • m|art said:
    wonderful dark room work!
  • Kreatywni Kreatywnie My said:
    he he he nice

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!!!

New Zealand officers Hart, Russell, Melvill, Symon and Young, during the occupation of Germany during World War 1

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  • Dai777 said:
    Might that be Following the First World War (there was an armistice in November 1918)

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