Name/Title
126 Stereoscope CardsEntry/Object ID
1979.03.04Description
Cards that were used had double images that when viewed through the view finder also looked 3D. Several companies produced cards to be viewed.
Likely owned by Charles Shepherd. 125 total.
GROUPS OF CARDS:
1. Keystone View Company - located in Meadville, PA, New York, Chicago, IL and London, England. Printed cards of i.e., comics, foreign countries, city scenes, Christmas - varied widely. By 1905, it was the biggest.
2. International View Company - From 1890-1905 used photographer R. Y. Young, E & H.T. Anthony and Underwood and Underwood. Included views of Yosemite National Park, Indian Territory ad the Spanish American War.
3. European Views --- Example: Bridge at Frankfort, Palace of the Tuileries, Paris, Trossach's Hotel Scotland. The Coliseum, Rome - by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company -- 1854.
4. Continent Stereoscope Publishers -- 1870-1890, released over 2000 views of the American Continent.
NOTE: Stereoscopic imaging is a technique that creates the illusion of depth using 2-D images placed side by side one in front of each eye - your brain then ahs the perception of a 3-D image.
CARDS:
James Davis 5
International View 37
European Views 11
Keystone View Co. 19
Works & Washington DC 7
SUB TOTAL 79
Stereo Classics 9
American Continent 7
Misc 31
SUB TOTAL 47
TOTAL 126Acquisition
Accession
1979.03Source or Donor
Franklin D Shepherd