Colorful Rooms

The rooms in President Lincoln's home are quite colorful as we see in these two shots from the family's parlor. Both shots show the bright color of the carpet on the floor, one of the shots in a closeup. The other photos shows a table with a deep red tablecloth and holding one of the family's favorite pastimes: photographs. But these were not just early attempts at photography, these were stereographs. The large wooden box would hold the stereo photos, much like the View-Master photos I had as a child. Since our eyes generate full 3D sight by using the slightly different views of our two eyes, the stereographs show slightly separated views that can be combined in a viewer to see a quite effective 3D view.

Following the relaxed and interesting visit to the Lincoln home, we walked back downtown to another of the future President's favorite places: his law office. Some shots from there in the next post.