Japanese photographer Nobukuni Enami took stereoscopic photographs of 19th-century Geisha, which were hand-colored and shown by viewing a different photo with the left and right eye.
Because it’s unlikely that you’ve got your own vintage stereoscopic viewer lying around, many of these images are animated GIFS that photographer Guy Thiophene has created to give you an idea of what they would have looked like in 3D. Thiophene converted the images into GIFS from stereo images found in the extensive collection of Rob Oechsle (known on Flickr as Okinawa Soba), who has been collecting the photographs since 1973.
See a collection of these pictures, and learn more about Geisha at Environmental Graffiti. Link
(Image credit: T. Enami/Guy Thiophene)
For an entire blog dedicated to such photos, check out http://www.oldphotosjapan.com which has tons of incredible Japanese photos from between the 1860s and 1930s.