Is this a Glass Negative Please!

[chinakay]

Looking over this one again...see the distance between the arms of the two men...it's different in each photo. Also the distance between the woman's head and the arm of the man closest to her...it's different. Definitely 2 different photos, and I think too much of a diff just to account for it being a stereo photo...just my opinion...

Cheers,
China

[PrueM]

Carol, is the back of the glass painted black?  It looks fairly dark...

If it's painted black then I doubt whether it's anything projectable, more likely to be viewed through a stereoscope...but I've not seen any stereoscopic photos on glass before.  It's a bit of a mystery!

I think rather than being taken at the same time through different lenses, the photos were taken separately through the same lens, with the camera moved slightly to take the second pic from a different angle.  If I cross my eyes I can see the picture in 3D 

[PrueM]

I did some minor tweaking in case anyone else wants to try the "crosseyed" technique 

[chinakay]

Has the face in the window disappeared in the 2nd photo?

[Emjaybee]

I have a stereoscope, dated 1860. The pictures are both the same size and you cant see the difference.The camera was mounted on a sliding bar, one picture taken then moved to the side and the second picture taken.

However mine are mounted on card. I don't feel this is a stereo picture, we can imagine with the new magic of photography no space on the plate must be wasted thus the extra part picture.

For those who missed the point (old fool with crayons) my, picture repair and colouring was described as "a child with crayons" by a very prominent site in the U.S.A. It still hurts. Not such an old fool after all.

[PrueM]

Has the face in the window disappeared in the 2nd photo?

Yep! 
Maybe one of the people outside told them to nick off before the second pic was taken 

[PrueM]

For those who missed the point (old fool with crayons) my, picture repair and colouring was described as "a child with crayons" by a very prominent site in the U.S.A. It still hurts. Not such an old fool after all.

Pfft.  What would they know!  ALL fools, old and young, with or without crayons, are welcome and appreciated here on the Rootschat Photo Restoration Board! 

[PaulaToo]

One of those enterprising type who can aford a camera, and wants to see how the working class lives, comes around the district, (you still get um only they go to other parts of the world now.)
All the family come out to have their photy took, except Grandma, who can't get any further than to the window, where she can look out. To me it seems as though they are grouped knowing that she is there.

By the time the enterprising type has decided he will take the second photo, Grandma has had to sit down and Grandpa has changed his possition.

Mike, I think the other site deserves a smack with my rolled up newspaper, which I keep for swatting spiders in the Bar of the BBC Family Trees Messageboard. 

Well, you know me, I couldn't miss this one out. This is our ag labs, folks, our working class, not our champagne glass.
We owe it to them.

[Tony55]

Has the face in the window disappeared in the 2nd photo?

Yep!  
Maybe one of the people outside told them to nick off before the second pic was taken  

   REFRACTION
The camera was probably almost at right angles to the window giving a mirror effect thus allowing us to see the reflection of the photographer and was then moved slightly to the right, hence the face disappearing as the angle was different.
The space between the corner of the open gate and the edge of the door is less in the second picture than the first so the camera must be closer to it.
The man with the cap has turned his head to follow the camera even though the photographer probably told them not to move as in the first picture he seems to be looking slightly to the right of the camera.
I've been wondering if it's possible to cover half a glass plate negative and expose just half the plate at a time and perhaps this was someone's experiment at trying to take a stereo photo?

Just a thought...

best wishes, Tony