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Perhaps you mean stereographs, if so they work because you get a separate photo for each eye up close, with a seperator, with or without lenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy

https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-for-our-collections/stereo...

https://news.library.mcgill.ca/double-takes-a-brief-history-...

https://restoreoldphotosnow.com/what-are-stereographs/

https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/earlyphotoformats/ste...

Another method would be anaglyph, red-cyan or amber-blue dubois requiring similarly coloured glasses. https://adcnj3d.wordpress.com/the-science-of-anaglyph-3d/