nypl:
Since snow is on all of our minds right now, we thought we’d share this photo from our Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of a squirrel hanging out in a snowy Central Park in 1916. It’s not a regular photo, though - it’s a stereograph, or a popular photographic form in the early 1900s that placed two almost identical photographs side-by-side. When placed through a special machine called a stereoscope, the images make a 3-D image (see original of Mr. Squirrel here). NYPL has thousands and thousands of stereographs, and has built an online tool called Stereogranimator that allows you to make your own 3-D images, as well as moving GIFs, like this incredible dancing squirrel we’ve created. The weather’s terrible - stay inside and make your own moving images! And, remember, NYPL has delayed openings today!