This coming Sunday (21st June) is Stereoscopy Day, the annual international celebration of the birth of stereoscopic 3D.
Pressphotoman is again delighted to support the event organised by Denis Pellerin and Rebecca Sharpe, co-curators of the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy (BMAS).
A series of Pressphotoman blogposts this month have chronicled a trip to North Yorkshire taken in June 1911 by an unknown stereographer.
Staying at a hotel in the cathedral city of Ripon, the nearby Cistercian abbey ruins of Fountains and Jervaulx provided plenty of three-dimensional subjects.
However, the stereographer’s camera was also on hand to record celebrations marking the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary that took place on Thursday 22nd June 1911.
According to the Ripon Observer, the day “was given up to general rejoicing in the city.”
Though “rain threatened all day and there was a strong westerly gale blowing, which played havoc with some of the lighter decorations in the streets,” the weather stayed fine.
The paper’s report was illustrated by five halftone photographs credited to Ripon photographer J.H. Bayley under the headline “Scenes In The City Square.”
Given the poor quality of their reproduction in the British Newspaper Archive, it’s a pleasure instead to share two stereos taken during the celebrations by our unknown stereographer.
Crowds are seen in the Market Square gathered around the 82-foot tall Ripon Obelisk designed by celebrated architect Nicholas Hawksmoor and erected in 1702.
For full details of Stereoscopy Day and how you can get involved, visit the website via the link below.
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