Is This The First UFO Photograph?
File: The Summit Of Mount Washington During The Winter Of 1870-71 -
stereoscopic view #17: "Frost Architecture"
Author=Clough & Kimball, Concord, New Hampshire
Date=Winter 1870–18
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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The image itself is in the public domain because the copyright has expired, due to the fact that its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1925.
Crop detail zoomed
This file is a stereogram. Stereograms are stereoscopic images or animations which combine left and right frames showing slightly different visual angles to allow for 3D perception.
The sterogram uses the side-by-side cross-view method. The left frame shows the right eye's perspective, and the right frame the left eye's perspective. It might be possible to view this image without a viewing device by crossing your eyes to visually combine the frames, or a stereoscope may be used.
Verso (list of stereoviews in the series; this one is underlined)
Comment: Looking at it closely, it's not a chunk of wood (too much structure at one end), it's not crud on the lens, it's not a smudge. It must be real. After all, it's not like a photographer taking a picture of a really large ice formation might have wanted to put something there for scale, is it?
