cromagnondan
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- Jul 21, 2014
Just discovered this civil war forum, and someone suggested I post this handiwork of mine to this forum.
In 1861, as far as we can tell, a photographer, perhaps the Cairo photographers Dunn and Faul of 6th and Levee, went up on the St. Charles Hotel, the tallest building in Cairo, or so I believe, and took some photographs. These survive and are available as tif images, which means high resolution, on the Library of Congress website. A observation that these photographs formed a 'near panorama' of Cairo in 1861 got me thinking, well, modern 'stitching' software allows one to join multiple photographs into one panoramic view provided the photographs have overlapping elements. Zoom.it is a Microsoft service for hosting large panoramic photographs. Photographs 1 and 2 are looking South. Photographs 3, 4 and 5 looking west, and photograph 6, looks North along the Ohio. So photographs 1 and 2 can be stitched together, as can photographs 3, 4, and 5 to make some amazing panoramas. Photograph 6 was omitted because it can't be linked into the panorama. (Photograph 6 is perhaps the most interesting as it shows the Levee and some riverboats, but it does not match up with the other photographs. ) Climb onto the roof, put your quarter in the binoculars, and zoom in on Cairo in 1861.
http://zoom.it/afER
http://zoom.it/PLnJ
In 1861, as far as we can tell, a photographer, perhaps the Cairo photographers Dunn and Faul of 6th and Levee, went up on the St. Charles Hotel, the tallest building in Cairo, or so I believe, and took some photographs. These survive and are available as tif images, which means high resolution, on the Library of Congress website. A observation that these photographs formed a 'near panorama' of Cairo in 1861 got me thinking, well, modern 'stitching' software allows one to join multiple photographs into one panoramic view provided the photographs have overlapping elements. Zoom.it is a Microsoft service for hosting large panoramic photographs. Photographs 1 and 2 are looking South. Photographs 3, 4 and 5 looking west, and photograph 6, looks North along the Ohio. So photographs 1 and 2 can be stitched together, as can photographs 3, 4, and 5 to make some amazing panoramas. Photograph 6 was omitted because it can't be linked into the panorama. (Photograph 6 is perhaps the most interesting as it shows the Levee and some riverboats, but it does not match up with the other photographs. ) Climb onto the roof, put your quarter in the binoculars, and zoom in on Cairo in 1861.
http://zoom.it/afER
http://zoom.it/PLnJ