Stereographs at Pickler
The collection at Pickler Memorial Library was donated by John A. Broadbooks in 2018, while his grandson was a student at Truman State University. Featured below are just a few from the total 5255 stereographs which are housed in the Special Collections department, ranging in topic from industry, location, events, and culture.
For a complete list of stereographs in the collection, visit the ArchivesSpace.
Gallery
The featured stereographs below are each shown from the front and back, given a brief description of their image, and have all text transcribed. They each have a catalogue number penciled in on their backs which will be used as their title. All other handwritten text will be denoted in italics. If a stereograph does not have its back shown, this means there is no content on the back. Tissue views are additionally shown as they appear with backlighting.
[Description: an ornate white pavilion in front of a blue sky, flanked by green bushes, with a figure leaning on its facing side]
1.15
D. R. G. M. No. 437 756
Warenzeichen No. 142 123
Chromoplast-Bild No. 238
Serie 37 Tunis-Karthago No. 235–240
Tunis, Maurischer Pavillon.
Pavillon de la Manouba, zum Palais de la Manuba, dem ehemaligen Landsitz des Hamouda Beys gehörig.
Tunis, pavillon mauresque.
Tunis, moorish pavillon.
Tunisi, padiglione moresco.
Túnez, pabellon moresco.
[Description: a vast multitude of penguins across a desert]
T493 ★
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
17014T Penguins on Dassen Island near Cape Town, South Africa.
1.24
17014
Penguins on Dassen Island near Cape Town, South Africa
A small island lying 40 miles north of Cape Town and six or eight miles from the mainland known as Dassen Island belongs to the government and is carefully protected on account of its value in guano and egg production.
[Description: a large building with a clocktower with a figure on a path through the front lawn]
7.4
[Description: a miner with a pickaxe and a miner with a hammer inside of a cave]
The “Perfec” Stereograph. (Trade Mark.)
Patented April 14, 1903. Other Patents Pending.
H.C. White Co., Gen’l Offices N. Bennington, Vt., U.S.A
Branch Offices: New York, Chicago, London.
12377 Down in a Colorado Gold Mine—taking out ore, Eagle River Canyon, Colorado, U. S. A.
Copyright 1905 by H. C. White Co.
13.1
[Description: a figure on a camel with the Sphinx in the middle ground and a pyramid in the background]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Works and Studios ~
Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.
(44) The Great Sphinx and Pyramid of Chefren, Egypt.
Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood.
13.1
[Description: a figure standing in front of brick wall carvings and hieroglyphs]
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790 ⯁
Keystone View Company
Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc.
Manufacturers/Publishers
Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
*2579 Great War Reliefs of Sethos I on N. Wall of Karnak Temple, Thebes, Egypt.
18.60
*2579
Great War Relief of Karnak Temple, Thebes, Egypt
“We are standing outside of the great hypostyle of Karnak, looking southward against the outside of the north wall. Behind this wall is the vast forest of columns which we have already viewed. In three rows, one above the other, Sethos I, whom we saw in the flesh at Cairo, the father of Ramses II, has here depicted the victories which he won in the first years of his reign in the middle of the fourteenth century B.C….
[Description: Stonehenge with another rock in the foreground]
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219 ⯁
Keystone View Company
Copyrighted H. C. White Co.
Manufacturers/Publishers
Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
W28387 Strange Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.
19.16
W28387
Strange Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire is one of the prehistoric centers of England. On these green chalk downs stands a mysterious monument, eloquent of a life throbbing on this plain when London was but a marsh. Whether Stonehenge is the ruins of a Druid fane or a sun temple is not known. It may even have been a mighty sepulchre for fallen heroes.
[Description: large clouds pluming out of a mountain while four figures raise their arms on a closer plane]
545
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus.
16400—An Active Volcano in Java.
20.2
545—(16400)
Volcano in Eruption, Java
Lat. 6° S.; Long. 106° E.
Any opening in the earth that throws up hot rock and steam is a volcano (vŏl-kā’nō). Usually a volcano builds up a cone-shaped peak about its crater (krā’tẽr), as the mouth of the opening is called. A volcano is said to be “active” when it explodes from time to time. These explosions are called eruptions (ē-rŭp’shŭn). They sometimes wipe out whole cities several miles from the peak.
[Description: large clouds pluming out of a mountain while four figures raise their arms on a closer plane]
T576 ★
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
16400T Impressive Magnificence of a Volcanic Eruption in Java, Dutch East Indies.
20.7
16400
A Volcanic Eruption in Java
Any opening in the earth that throws up hot rock and steam is a volcano. Usually a volcano builds up a cone-shaped peak about its crater, as the mouth of the opening is called. A volcano is said to be “active” when it explodes from time to time. These outbursts are called eruptions. They sometimes wipe out whole cities several miles from the peak.
[Description: an ornate fireplace with candelabras reflected on the mantlepiece mirror, and two more candelabras on pedestals at the left and right]
[Backlit description: bright red colors the walls, and bright yellow highlights the interior of the fireplace as well as the holders of the candelabras, which have each wick pricked with light]
22.15
43–50/$3
Salle du Trone Tuileries
[Description: an ornate room in primarily gold color with intricate cornices, large chandeliers, and in the foreground, a rearing horse statue]
23.67
D. R. G. M. No. 437 756
Warenzeichen No. 142 123
Chromoplast-Bild No. 304
Serie 48 Schloss Herren-Chiemsee No. 301–306
Herrenchiemsee, Ochsenaugensaal.
Name, nach dem Oberlichtfenster rechts oben (Ochsenauge), Voerzimmer von dem Prunkschlafsaal des Königs. Im Vordergrund Reiterstandbild von Ludwig XIV., an der Decke zwei prächtige Kristalleuchtier, vor dem Spiegel Bronzekamin mit goldener Standuhr, Wände oben mit vergoldeten Reliefs, Türe mit grünen Portieren im Hintergrund, Decke gemalt.
Salle de l’œil-de-bœuf.
Ox eye hall.
Salone dell’occhio di bue.
Sala del ojo de buey.
[Description: a riverfront crowded with wooden boats with a dense city in the background]
[Backlit description: the sky is blue, buildings and boats are orange, and pricks of light illuminate streetlights and stars]
2154. Rotterdam Le vieux Port.
26.2
[Description: an old stone building overgrown with ivy stands behind a figure leaning on a fence]
Gems of Irish Scenery
The Eblana Series
28.18
Ruins of Muckross Abbey, Killarney.
Erected in 1340 by the M’Carthys, Princess of Desmond, for Franciscan friars. In 1602 it was re-edified, since when ruin has again resumed its sway.
[Description: a long hall lined in statues with a painted ceiling]
37
Keystone View Company
Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood
Manufacturers/Publishers
Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus.
(37)-2001-Gallery in palace of the Colonna family, Rome.
29.141
[Description: a crowd of various ages, standing or seated in chairs outdoors]
IT48 ★
Keystone View Company
Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood
Manufacturers/Publishers
Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
*2012 The Lazzaroni, as They Live in the Streets of Naples, Italy.
29.149
[Description: the Leaning Tower of Pisa beside a cathedral with some figures in the foreground]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas
Works and Studios ~
Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J.
(67) The famous Leaning Tower and Venerable Cathedral, 800 years old, Pisa, Italy
Copyright 1897 by Underwood & Underwood
29.149
You are looking nearly west across this square. The famous Arno river is half a mile away at your left. This group of buildings right here is one of the most celebrated in all Europe, partly for the beauty of the structure and partly for the fascinating eccentricity of the taller one.
[Description: a large building reading “Pierce House” in front of a dirt road where horse-drawn carriages are parked]
34.34
[Description: a ring of flower patches around a statue in a garden which are tinted with bright pink, blue, orange, and yellow]
37.8
Boehl & Koenig’s Views of Shaw’s Missouri Botanical Garden, Tower Grove, Lafayette, Benton and Forest Parks, Fair Grounds, Etc., 707 N. 4th Street, St. Louis.
Shaw’s Garden.
- Main Entrance, outside view
- Mausoleum
- Main entrance, inside view
- Front of Parterre
- Rose Patch and Summer-house
- Museum
- Residence of Mr. Henry Shaw
- Pavillion
- Parterre and Palm-house
- Pavillion from East
- Parterre & plant houses
- Green House in the distance.
- Palm-House from Pavillion
- [underlined] Central View from Palm-House
- North End, showing new Palm-House
- General View from Palm-house
- Group of Bible Plants
- Gorgon Plants
- Tropical Fruit Plants
- Interior of large Plant-house
[Description: a dense city street with a horse-drawn truck]
View on Washington St. West from Broadway, St. Louis.
37.9
[Description: two women standing in a creek observing large rock formations]
International View Co.
Photographers and Publishers.
Home Office and Works
Decatur, Illinois, U. S. A.
2606. Fair Explorers in Deer Park Glen, near La Salle, Ill.
Copyright, 1903, by C. L. Wasson.
37.37
[Description: beneath a blue sky, in front of a dark treeline, a tan geyser spurting water and a steaming pool]
1287. Castle Geyser and Diana’s Pool, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park.
Copyrighted, 1903, by T. W. Ingersoll.
39.56
No. 1287. Castle Geyser and Diana’s Pool, Yellowstone National Park.
Castle Geyser, which received its very appropriate name from the Washburn party in 1870, is a very whimsical geyser. Its cone resembles a diminutive castle ruin, and its eruption, half steam and half water, ordinarily does not reach above 75 feet, but occasionally it displays great style, rising to the magnificent height of 200 feet, the steam floating still a few hundred feet higher and forming a wondrous spectacle. The periods of the geyser are irregular. Sometimes it spouts after a rest of eight hours, sometimes it rests up to thirty hours and varies constantly. Nor is the length of the period of rest any sign of the height to which the following eruption will throw the water.
[Description: a train stopped on a cliff-lined track with two figures standing by its face; one of the rocks has the number 502020 on it]
James M. Davis,
New York, St. Louis, Liverpool, Toronto, Sydney,
Copyright 1891, by B. W. Kilburn.
4829. The Great Gorge, Crawford Notch, U. S. A.
41.33
[Description: a little girl in a small carriage led by goats with a young boy standing beside it and a gazebo in the background]
The Perfec-Stereograph. (Trade Mark.)
Patented April 14, 1903. Other Patents Pending.
H. C. White Co., Gen’l Office N. Bennington, Vt., U.S.A.
Branch Offices: New York, Chicago, London.
35 Goat Wagons, Central Park, New York.
Copyright 1903 by H. C. White Co.
44.2
[Description: a cliff formation covered in trees over a body of water]
Views of Ithaca and Vicinity.
Photographed by Wm. Frear, Ithaca, N.Y.
No. 24. Reflection In Dam, Ithaca Gorge.
44.5
From Ackley’s, Ithaca, N. Y.
[Description: a river running between cliffs on the left and right]
Gems of American Scenery
By Purviance, Philadelphia
Publisher of the Scenery of The Adirondacks, Watkins Glen, Erie Railway, Onoko Glen, Ithica Gorge, Philadelphia, Fairmount Park, Mauch Chunk, &c.
44.11
[Description: a busy city street with people, trolleys, and horse-drawn cars roving in different directions]
[the lower half of an indented stamp on the stereograph, backwards, reads “Boston”]
[etched into the photo] 203
44.91
Anthony’s Instantaneous View.
No. 203.
Broadway from Barnum’s Museum.
Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New-York.
[Description: a car-filled city street at night, city signs aglow]
T40 ★
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
32400 T The Great White Way—Night Scene on Broadway Above Times Square, New York City.
44.157
32400
1928 first model A’s
“The Great White Way,” New York
The blazing illumination occasioned by millions of electric lights, turning the hours of darkness to the brightness of noon, is an event of nightly occurrence in the theatrical district of New York and one which adds immeasurably to the glamour of this greatest amusement center of the world. New York City boasts about 80 standard theaters, an equal number of vaudeville houses and music halls and more than 1,700 motion picture houses, possessing, between them, a seating capacity of over 1,000,000. Of these places, the best and the largest are on or close to Broadway between 38th and 62nd Streets, and it is in this section of Broadway which is popularly known as “The Great White Way.”
[Description: the interior of a house with a set dining table at the forefront]
33
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y. Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus.
18203—Domestic Art—Dining Room and Living Room.
44.177
33—(18203)
“The House Beautiful”—Brooklyn, N. Y.
Lat. 41° N.; Long. 74° W.
033-UH-91
Making a home attractive is one of the finest of arts. Nothing so makes life worth while and full of richness as a well appointed place to live. We are too often satisfied with cheap prints in place of pictures, gaudy wallpaper, any kind of rugs, and furniture of all sorts.
[Description: a mountain peak above the surrounding of clouds]
221 189
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
32741 Mount Hood, Oregon, from an Airplane—Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.
50.1
221—(13635)
Looking at Mount Hood, Oregon, from the Tree Line
Lat. 45° N.; Long. 122° W.
The Cascade Range of mountains is crowned by many noble peaks. The peak nearest the Columbia River on the south is Mount Hood. This mountain was once a volcano, but it has long ceased to be active. It rises 11,225 feet above the sea level. It is snow capped the year round. Its peak is visible from the ships on the Pacific Ocean and its white top stands out in plain view of Portland, 50 miles northwest.
[Description: a large bell with a crack in it]
James Cremer, Publisher.
18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Liberty Bell, 1776.
54.1
[a printed illustration of two horses on either side of an emblem with an eagle on it, beneath them a ribbon reading, “Virtue Liberty Independence”]
The “Old Liberty Bell,” Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
We as a people are not fond of the antique, but as we approach the hundreth anniversary of the nation’s birth, no true-hearted American can think without a thrill of Patriotism of the Old Liberty Bell; which rang out to “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.”
[Description: a small boat pluming with steam on the water in front of a tree-laden hill]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Works and Studios ~
Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J.
(69)-9005-Loch Katrine, Scotland—”The spot an angel deigned to grace”
Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman.
59.40
As we stand here on the heathery bank of Loch Katrine, 400 feet above sea level, we catch a glimpse of one of the loveliest features the Trossachs afford. This lake is not very large—scarcely ten miles long, in fact—but, for its size, it is very deep—not less than 500 feet in depth in some places. It is the source of Glasgow’s water supply, which is conveyed by gravitation through an aqueduct, and for purity and wholesomeness its water is unexcelled. Placid and clear, its water reflects as from a mirror the surrounding scenery. (Invert the stereograph and you have a double view hardly less perfect when reversed, so tranquil is its surface.)
[Description: a small boat pluming with steam on the water in front of a tree-laden hill]
12
Keystone View Company
Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood
Manufacturers/Publishers
Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
V12748 T “The Spot an Angel Deigned to Grace”—Loch Katrine, Scotland.
59.45
V12748
| Series | 400 | 200 | 100 |
| Position | 73 | 40 | 26 |
Loch Katrine, Scotland
As we stand here on the heathery bank of Loch Katrine, 400 feet above sea level, we catch a glimpse of one of the loveliest features the Trossachs afford. This lake is not very large—scarcely ten miles long, in fact—but, for its size, it is very deep—no less than 500 feet in some places. It is the source of Glasgow’s water supply, which is conveyed by gravity through an aqueduct, and for purity and wholesomeness its water is unexcelled. Placid and clear, its water reflects as from a mirror the surrounding scenery. (Invert the stereograph and you have a double view hardly less perfect when reversed, so tranquil is its surface.)
[Description: laying on a surface, an illustration of a Civil War soldier riding a horse and raising a flag while backed by various other soldiers]
Keystone View Company,
Manufacturers and Publishers.
Meadville, Pa. St. Louis, Mo.
922—Sheridan’s Ride.
63.3
[Description: a dense city street with cars on the road and people on the sidewalk]
44 ⯁
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
37134 From Whitehall Viaduct, View N. on Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
63.18
32187
In the Heart of Atlanta, Ga.
In a state where over 8,000,000 peach trees blossom each spring, it seems most fitting that the main street of its capital should be named Peachtree. But this name has nothing to do with peach trees. It owes its origin to the pitch tree which marked the ridge where the Creek and Cherokee Indians traded. Peachtree Street runs along that same ridge so today Atlanta still trades where the Indians traded. Beginning as a railhead it took the name of Terminus, then changed to Marthasville, and in 1847 to Atlanta.
[Description: the Empire State Building from high above the rest of the city]
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29 ⯁
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
34174 Inspiring Heights of World’s Greatest Skyscraper—Empire State Bldg. from Air, New York.
68.6
34174
The Empire State Building from the Air
From the ground it is difficult to judge the comparative height of these tall buildings because they are all so far above us. But, as from a great elevation above the buildings it is fascinating to note how they stand out. Towering above all others, the Empire State Building, the world’s tallest skyscraper, rises immediately below us.
[Description: the Eiffel tower through a detailed iron gate]
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412 ⯁
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
29609 The Eiffel Tower and Champs de Mars from the Trocadero Palace, Paris, France.
68.35
29600
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
No Frenchman and no visitor to France of the present day could imagine a perspective of Paris in which the most conspicuous object would not be the Eiffel Tower. As one writer has said, in describing a view of the city from one of the distant hills which surround it: “Through the pearly haze of the afternoon sunshine, … at one extremity of the splendid panorama, like the pillar of cloud set by Jehovah before the face of Israel, rushes skyward the shaft of the Eiffel Tower, about whose pinnacle play the invisible lightnings that syllable men’s thoughts across the seven seas.”
[Description: the moon]
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1200 ⯁
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
16648 The Full Moon, Yerkes, Observatory.
68.82
16648
The Full Moon
This stereograph shows clearly that the moon is an almost perfect sphere. The moon does not shine by its own light as the sun does. Instead, the moon shines by light reflected from the sun. The sun shines on the moon and then the moon sends the light on to us. Sunlight caught in a mirror is sent in just the same way.
[Description: a man in a bearded wig with a fur-trimmed hat lugging a hefty sack over his shoulder through a snowy forest]
Keystone View Company,
Manufacturers & Publishers
Copyrighted 1906 by Keystone View Company
Meadville, Pa. St Louis, Mo. San Francisco, Cal. Toronto, Can. New York, NY London, England.
11934—(6) This is poor Santa, feeling so blue, For fear he’ll be late and disappoint you.
72.3
[Description: an indoor conifer tree decorated with popcorn garland and dolls where a young girl sleeps beneath and a bearded figure stands in the background]
Canadian Series.
Century Photo-View Co.
Midland, Mich.
Tired of Waiting for Santa Claus.
72.6
[Description: a wrecked bridge and other debris]
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus.
14937 Shaken into Ruins by the Great Earthquake, Canal Bridge, Yokohama, Japan.
73.153
[Description: inside a building like a large greenhouse, overlooking many booths and stalls evocative of a marketplace]
★ 1402 M. B. from S. W. Tower looking N. E.
74.3
Centennial Photographic Co.
International Exhibition
1776. 1876 Philadelphia.
Wm. Notman, President.
W. Irving Adams, Vice Pres.
Edward L. Wilson, Supt & Treasurer.
J. A. Fraser, Art Superintendent.
Registered 1876 by the Centennial Photographic Company.
[Description: a famous US president up close on an outdoor stage in front of an audience]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas
Works and Studios ~
Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J.
4967-“Our history contains no name worth remembering of any man who led a life of ease,” President Roosevelt. Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood.
75.5
[Description: two figures in the foreground seated on a ledge, looking out at a pyramid over the desert]
21
S 793
European Publishers
Underwood & Underwood (London) Ltd.
Underwood & Underwood
New York & Ottawa, Kas. Works, Arlington, N.J.
(21)-2538-Second Pyramid S. W. from summit of Great Pyramid, Egypt
Copyright Underwood & Underwood.
75.52
We stand looking southwestward toward the heart of Africa, with Cairo almost behind us and Memphis on our left. Before us looms the second pyramid; this is probably not the best point of view from which to be impressed with its size, and yet, when you remember that yonder cap of casing masonry which still crowns it extends for 150 feet down its sides, this may serve as a scale by which to measure the rest. Lifted as we are upon the shoulders of the Great Pyramid, we are taking an unfair advantage in thus looking down upon its slightly smaller neighbor. But how splendidly it rises against that background of billowy desert which stretches away southward.
[Description: a young boy and a little girl using a spring scale to weigh an infant in a blanket with a wheeled bassinet in the background]
Sold only by Berry, Kelley & Chadwick.
Office: Philadelphia Studio
Berry, Kelley & Chadwick. Publishers
Philadelphia. U.S.A.
“Baby Weighs Just One Pint.”
Copyrighted 1894, by William H. Han.
75.53
[Description: a woman leaning on a cow next to a man sitting on a fence]
Berry, Kelley & Chadwick. Publishers
Philadelphia. U.S.A.
Sold only by Berry, Kelley & Chadwick.
Office: Philadelphia Studio
Where the Fields are Green and Life is Pure.
Copyright 1906, by E. W. Kelley,
75.66
[Description: a clergyman beside two women who are holding a cage crinoline]
[there is written text on the righthand image, but it cannot be made out against the pattern of a carpet in the view]
76.15
U. S. Stereoscopic View Advertising Co., 1217 Market St., Phila. Edw. Trust, Gen. Mang’r.
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Leading Business Houses of Wilkes-Barre.
C. Morgan & Son, Dealers in Hardware, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Glass, Paints, Oils, Putty, &c., Agents for Terwilliger & Co’s Fire Proof Safes. No 215 Market Street, Wilkes-Barre.
[Description: a woman beside a fireplace wearing a long, silken dress]
Cloaks, Suits and Ladies’ Underclothing.
A full assortment of small wares.
O. S. Tuttle, Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods,
153 High Street, – – Holyoke, Mass.
Kate Claxton.
76.24
[Description: women seated at a long desk with wires plugged into it]
No. 14 Long Distance Telephone Switchboard.
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Ill.
76.77
No. 14. Long Distance Telephone Switchboard.
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Ill.
In addition to our private telephone plant equipped with automatic telephones, we use the service of the Chicago Telephone Company with its long distance connections with New York, Boston, St Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Cleveland, Detroit and all of the great cities East and West, and this stereoscopic view shows you the great switchboard located in the Administration Building.
[Description: the deck of a tilting boat at sea]
The “Perfec” Stereograph. (Trade Mark.)
Patented April 14, 1903. Other Patents Pending.
H. C. White Co., Publishers.
General Office and Works, North Bennington, Vtm. U. S. A.
(4)
8104 The Columbia Rolling, Mid-Ocean, Copyright 1901 by H. C. White Co.
86.2
[Description: an old wooden ship out on the water]
J.F. Jarvis, Publisher.
Washington D.C.
Sold only by Underwood & Underwood,
Liverpool; New York; Chicago; Toronto; Ottawa, Kas; El Paso, Tex.
Copyright, 1803, by J. F. Jarvis.
Columbus’ Flagship “Santa Maria,” Columbus Naval Parade, New York Harbor, U. S. A.
La Capitana de Colon “Santa Maria,” Revista Naval [faded word], Nueva York, E. U. A.
86.14
[Description: the bow of a boat with waves splashing up]
H. C. White Co., Gen’l Offices N. Bennington, Vt., U.S.A.
Branch Offices: New York, Chicago, London.
The “Perfec” Stereograph. (Trade Mark.)
Patented April 14, 1903. Other Patents Pending.
8116 Crossing the Atlantic in Winter,—ploughing through the stormy seas.
Copyright 1903 by H. C. White Co.
86.15
[Description: clusters of oranges hanging in a green tree with white flowers]
Keystone View Company,
Manufacturers & Publishers. Copyright 1897 by B.L. Singley.
Meadville, Pa, St Louis, Mo, San Francisco, Cal, Toronto, Can, New York, NY, London, England.
4300—Orange Blossoms and Fruit, Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A.
91.14
4,300 Orangeblüthen und Früchte in Los Angeles in Californien, Ver. St.
Fiori e frutti d’arancio, Los Angeles, Cal., Stati Uniti.
Fleurs d’oranger et fruits, Los Angeles, Cal., Etats Unis.
Azahares y frutas, Los Angeles, Cal., E. U. A.
Appelsinplomster og Frugt, Los Angeles, Cal., F. S.
Appelsins Blommor och Frukt, Los Angeles, Cal., F. S.
The oranges shown in this picture were photographed in the vicinity of Los Angeles, where orange trees were first planted in California. In this part of the state, oranges, of which there are nine varieties, can be gathered fresh from Christmas to July.
[Description: an arrangement of various primates (excluding humans) playing instruments onstage in front of more primates]
Published by Hurst & Son.
9, 11 & 13 Elm St. Albany, N. Y.
For Description, Turn Over.
Copyright Secured No. 9
92.2
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by James A. Hurst, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.
Hurst’s Stereoscopic Studies of Natural History.
Second Series (Miscellaneous.) No. 9.
The Band.—”Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.”
Negative by “Haines.”—Orders received at Nos. 11 & 13 Elm Street, Albany, N. Y.
[Description: baboons dressed in clothes and holding cash over a ring where two chickens are poised; a sign on the wall says, “I’ll bet a hundred to one that my American rooster can lick all creation”]
Published by Hurst & Son.
11 & 13 Elm St. Albany, N. Y.
For Description, Turn Over.
Copyright Secured No. 11
92.3
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by James A. Hurst, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.
Hurst’s Stereoscopic Studies of Natural History.
Second Series (Miscellaneous.) No. 11.
The Chicken dispute.
Negative by “Haines.”—Orders received at Nos. 11 & 13 Elm Street, Albany, N. Y.
[Description: three kittens, one black, two tabby, sleep in a blanketed pet bed at the foot of a decorative table]
16. Kittens.
92.24
(3)
Nine
Photographed and Published by Kilburn Brothers,—–Littleton, N.H.
[Description: a comet shooting downward amongst a plethora of stars]
T600 ★
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U. S. A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England.
16645 Morehouse’s Comet, Yerkes Observatory.
93.14
600—(16645)
Morehouse’s Comet
This is a wonderful view of a comet sweeping across the sky. Formerly these were looked upon as evil omens. They were thought to forecast the coming of famine, pestilence, or war. But scientists, even in ancient days, did not accept these statements. In Western Asia and Northern Europe the old star-gazers believed them to be what they are, “wanderers” across the sky following regular paths.
[Description: a snowy forest with sunbeams cutting through]
94.54
D. R. G. M. No. 437 756
Warenzeichen No. 142 123
Chromoplast-Bild No. 78
Serie 10 Winterbilder I No. 73–78.
Wintermorgen im Buchenwald.
Matin d’hiver dans une forêt de hêtres.
A winter morning in the beech forest.
Mattino d’inverno in una selva di faggi.
Mañana de invierno en el bosque de hayas.
[Description: a cave with large stalactites and a small staircase]
96.7
Electric Light Views in the Caverns of Luray,
at Luray Station (Page Co., Virginia),
Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
Tourist’s Guide.:
From New York and Philadelphia, take Pennsylvania R. R.
” Baltimore, take Western Maryland R. R.
” Washington, take Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
” Southern and South-western points, take Norfolk & Western R. R. and Connections.
[Description: a cluster of branching coral]
American Stereoscopic Company
Manufacturers and Publishers
New York, U. S. A.
725-727 Broadway
Coral.
Copyright 1897 by R. Y. Young.
97.2
Coral is a hard framework or skeleton which is secreted by marine polyps for their support and habitation.
It assumes various forms, sometimes branching like a shrub, spreading like a fan, or taking the appearance of a brain, flower, mushroom, etc.
“What a wonderful stereoscopic effect! Do you not see along those branches into the very heart of that coral—can you not touch each one of those stony branches? Yet apart from the stereoscope, that is only a flat surface-picture.”
[Description: an indoor area crowded by various architectural structures decorated with cobs of corn; a couple of them have signs, reading “Georgia” and “Nebraska”]
The Art Nouveau (Platino) Stereograph
C.H. Graves, Publisher, Phila., U.S.A.
The Universal Photo Art Co.
Philadelphia, Naperville, Ill.
59—Greatest Corn Exhibit Ever Made; Combined States; Louisiana Purchase Exposition. (Copyright, 1904, by C. H. Graves, Phila.)
98.44
[Description: a lemur seated on top of an old-fashioned stereoscopic camera]
043
B
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Third-Dimension Eye-Training Series
043-B-4261 Work or Play! Which?—Even if It’s Monkey Business, Two Eyes Are Better than One.
99.11
4261
Two Eyes Are Better Than One
Many people are likely to shut one eye and hastily declare that they get about as good an idea of distance or depth as when both eyes are open. There is a fundamental difference, however, as they will soon find out if they make the following experiment: Hold a pencil, point upward, about an arm’s length before you. Close one eye and with the other hand hold another pencil, point downward, the same distance forward. Lower the upper pencil and try to bring the two points together. With both eyes open it is easy to accomplish; with one eye closed, it is accomplished only by chance. Generally the points are from one to two inches apart.
[Description: on the lefthand image, an upward-pointing arrow, and on the righthand image, a number line from 1 to 15]
OVS 2
Keystone Stereoscopic Service
Copyright Keystone View Co.
Patent Applied For
Keystone View Company
Office and Studios
Meadville, Penna. Made in U. S. A.
99.43
Test II—Keystone Occupational Visual-Service Series (OVS)
To be used with Industrial Record Form No. 6 only.
OVS 2—Lateral Imbalance at Far Point
Question: To what number does the arrow point?
Satisfactory Response: The arrow points anywhere between 7 1/2 and 11.
A response below 7 1/2 indicates an overconvergence and, if reported above 11, a divergence is indicated. Whether this lateral imbalance interferes with ocular efficiency must be determined by a complete eye examination.
This test is a measure of eye posture.
Keystone View Company
Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Printed in U.S.A.
[Description: people wading in the ocean wearing long, loose bathing suits]
Sold only by Underwood & Underwood,
Baltimore, Md – Ottawa, Kas. – El Paso Tex. USA. Toronto, Canada Liverpool Eng.
Baltimore, Md – Ottawa, Kas. – El Paso Tex. USA. Toronto, Canada Liverpool Eng.
Copyright, 1889, by Underwood & Underwood.
In the Surf, Manhattan Beach, U. S. A.
Am Strande, Manhattan Beach, U. S. A.
102.7
[Description: three small children seated at a small table set for tea beside dolls]
Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers.
New York, N.Y.
Sold only by Underwood & Underwood
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Five o’clock Tea.
Copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman.
104.11
[Description: seen through parted lacy curtains, a child asleep in bed, curled up with a cat]
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyright 1901, by B. L. Singley. Made in U. S. A.
Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore. New York, N. Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng.
11417—Trials of the Day are O’er.
104.16
[Description: a child asleep in bed between a doll and a cat]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Works and Studios~
Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J.
6952-Fast friends passing the gates of Sleepy Land.
Copyright 1905 by Underwood & Underwood.
104.20
Fast friends passing the gates of Sleepy Land.
Des amis intimes qui les portes de la Terre des Rêves.
Treue Freunde passieren die Tore zum Schlafland.
Amigos fieles pasando los portillos de Tierra de Sueños.
Goda vänner passera porten till Sömnlandet.
Быстрые друзья проходящіе ворота Спящей земли
[Description: a small child seated in an upholstered chair in a well-decorated room, holding up a newspaper]
H. C. White Co., Chicago, New York, London.
Gen’l Office and Works, North Bennington, Wt., U. S. A.
The “Perfec” Stereograph. (Trade Mark.)
Edition de Luxe. Patented April 14, 1903.
5251 Reading the news “Just like papa”.
Copyright 1904 by H. C. White Co.
104.29
5251
Reading the news “Just like Papa” and—
Lisant les nouvelles “Juste comme papa” et—
Leyendo el periódico “lo mismo que Papá” y…
Liest die Zeitung „Gerade wie Papa“ und—
Läser tidningen “precis som pappa” och—
Читаю газету “какъ папа” и—
[Description: a man and a woman seated at a card table, beginning a game]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Works and Studios~
Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.
(1) Jack Pot Poker—the Draw.
Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood.
107.11
(1) Jack Pot Poker—the Draw.
Poker à grand enjeu—le tirage.
Einsam[?] Poker (amerikanisches Hazardspiel)—Das Raufen.
Jack Pot Poker (juego americano)—sacando á la suerte.
Hög poker (amerikanskt kortspel —delning.
Игра въ „покеръ“—„прикупка“
[Description: a man and a woman seated at a card table, showing off the hands they’ve drawn to the camera and both looking excited]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Works and Studios~
Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.
(3) Jack Pot Poker—his “sure thing” beaten.
Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood.
107.12
(2) Jack Pot Poker—the “Big Four.”
Poker à grand enjeu—Les “Grands quatre.”
Einsam[?] Poker (amerikanisches Hazardspiel—„Die höchsten Vier.“
Jack Pot Poker (juego americano)—El “Gran Cuatro.”
Hög poker (amerikanskt kortspel)—”de fyra höga.”
Игра въ „покеръ“—„козыри“
[Description: a man and a woman seated at a card table, the man disappointed now that their hands are revealed and the woman looking smug]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Works and Studios~
Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.
(2) Jack Pot Poker—the “Big Four.”
Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood.
107.13
#13
$13.00
(3) Jack Pot Poker—his “sure thing” beaten.
Poker à grand enjeu—son “affaire sûre” a raté.
Einsam[?] Poker (amerikanisches Hazardspiel—„Das Unfehlbare“ verfehlt.
Jack Pot Poker (juego americano)—Su “cosa segura” perdida.
Hög poker (amerikanskt kortspel)—hans “oöfvervinliga” öfverstuckna.
Игра въ „покеръ“—„не вывезла“
[Description: a woman in an apron amongst piles and piles of silk skeins, loading them onto a scale]
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U.S.A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y. Portlamd, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus.
20301—Weighing and Sorting Raw Silk Skeins—Silk Industry (Reeled Silk), So. Manchester, Conn.
113.3
22—(20301)
Weighing and Sorting Raw Silk Skeins, South Manchester, Conn.
Lat. 42° N.; Long. 73° W.
This shows one of the first processes in the manufacture of silk in the United States. This is the room in the factory in which the bales of raw silk are opened. All of our raw silk comes to us from abroad. By far the most of this comes from eastern and southeastern Asia, particularly from the countries of Japan and China.
[Description: a photograph of Queen Victoria, framed with various flowers]
James M. Davis,
New York, St. Louis, Liverpool, Toronto, Sydney.
Copyright 1893, by B. W. Kilburn.
7957. Queen Victoria.
113.18
Photographed and Published by
B. W. Kilburn, = Littleton, N. H.
[Description: a woman with an elaborate hairstyle pinned by a geometric flower, wearing also dangling earrings and a necklace, as viewed from her left side]
Sarony Stere’o Celebrities.
080 Broadway New York.
114.23
Lucca
Lucca
[Description: a wedding, the bride and groom kneeling in front of a priest, the wedding party crowded behind them with various faces colored by blush and their hair colored in brown, one dress being colored green; decorative palm fronds are tinted green, and roses are pink while additional flowers are yellow]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas
Works and Studios~
Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J.
8)-7242-Solemnization—The Nuptial Ceremony.
Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood.
114.37
(8) Solemnization—The Nuptial Ceremony.
La cérémonie nuptiale.
Die Trauung.
La ceremonia nupcial.
Vigselakten.
Свадебная церемонія.
[Description: two small children embracing an older woman from either side]
Sold Only by Griffith & Griffith
Philadelphia, Chicago, Hamburg (Germany) and Milan (Italy).
American and Foreign Views
17212 We’ll take care of you Grand Ma.
Copyright 1897 by William H. Rau
120.1
#144
$4.00
[Description: viewed through parted curtains, a seated woman attentive to a man who appears to be conveying something personal]
1
Keystone View Company,
Manufacturers & Publishers. Copyright 1901 by B. L. Singley.
Meadville, Pa., St Louis, Mo., San Francisco, Cal., Toronto, Can., New York, N.Y. London, England.
10468—”I Love Thee, I Love But Thee, With a Love that Shall Not Die.”
123.1
[Description: Frank Thomas handing his autograph to a boy over a table]
124.2
12-
Frank Thomas 2039
[clipart of Georgia with a star on the city] Columbus Georgia!
Following a ceremony at the Columbus Government Center, where Mayor proclaimed “Frank Thomas Day”, Columbus native land Chicago White Sox star Frank Thomas signed autographs for his many fans.
Exposed Nov 1993 Printed Jul 1995 Mounted Jul 1995
Muscogee 3-D – The Best in Black and White Stereoscopic Photography
Stereoscopic Society of America, Member No 715 (6 March 1978)
Stereographs by Bill C Walton 3739 Meadowlark Dr Columbus GA 31906
[Description: a lush green forest with sunbeams cutting through]
Stereograph by Harry B. Richards
Mequon, WI
Rays
124.5
Sun Rays
Leelanau, MI. 6.92
Camera: Realist 3.5
Scanned from a slide
Adjustments with Photoshop
Stereograph By: Harry B. Richards SSA#861
11506 N. Laguna Dr. Mequon, WI. 53092
[clipart of a man using an old-fashioned camera]
[Description: multiple men, three at the foreground, chipping away at blocks of granite]
3
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U. S. A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y. Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus.
13709—Quarrying Granite—Drilling Preparatory to Splitting, Concord, N. H.
125.13
3—(13709)
Quarrying Granite, Concord, N. H.
Lat. 43° N.; Long. 72° W.
Granite is quarried, not mined. That is, it is taken out of an open shaft, with no underground shafts leading off from the main opening, as is the case in marble quarries. The view shows a great granite pit,—one of the largest in the United States. The stone is in layers, and is so very hard that it has to be blasted loose. The men in the foreground are busy chiseling those stones, preparatory to splitting them into proper sizes.
[Description: a complex geometric figure made up of different sized squares and cubes at differing rotations]
1
58 Norway
Without Stereoscopic Effect.
126.27
[Description: a complex geometric figure made up of different sized squares and cubes at differing rotations]
2
107 Italy
With Stereoscopic Effect.
126.27
[Description: the Coliseum at the end of a path]
[Backlit description: pale tan colors everything stone beside dark green grass and beneath a blue sky where a faint moon with stars shines through]
128.2
Le Colysee. Rome
[Description: a large hall with columns at the end and tall, curtained windows at the right, furnished with sofas along the walls and large chandeliers down the arched ceiling]
[Backlit description: all warm colors, the curtains and sofas especially red and candelabras in yellow; every wick is pricked with light]
128.5
96
Résidençes Impériales.
Tuileries Salon des Travées
C.G.
Paris.
[Description: a large room full of long tables arranged with chairs and elegant place settings]
[Backlit description: windows are tinted blue, chairs are red, embellishments are gold, and every wick on candelabras and chandeliers is pricked with light]
528
Salle á manger.
Grand Hotel.
[an indented stamp in the center reads “Photographie G.A.F. Déposé a Paris”]
128.9
[Description: a chair at the top of a short set of stairs rests beneath a tent-like arrangement of curtains, behind a chandelier and between two candelabras]
[Backlit description: most everything is red and yellow with some green and pink stripes on the floor and a purple inside to the curtains; a few candles are prick in on the chandelier]
158
Salle du Trone
(Château de Fontainebleau.)
[an indented stamp in the center reads “Photographie G.A.F. Déposé a Paris”]
128.10
[Description: an outdoor hall made up of rib vaults with an older woman carrying a basket on her back and smiling to the camera]
Stereo-Travel Co.
Corona, New York City
85. Arcade of Ancient Rathaus, Goslar, Ger.
Copyright 1910 by Stereo-Travel Co.
138.5
[Description: a massive herd of reindeer on a snowy hill, one attentive to the camera]
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.
New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.
Works and Studios~
Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington, D.C.
(48)-647-Shy reindeer, doubtfully watching the traveller’s approach to the herd on a Hardanger glacier, Norway.
Copyright 1905 by Underwood & Underwood.
140.46
[Description: seven soldiers standing in a line, one facing them, all in various stages of donning a gas mask while their hats are on the ground]
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers/Publishers
Copyrighted/Made in U. S. A.
Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus.
19198—Our Boys in France Learning to Correctly Use Gas Masks.
152.66
19198
Learning to Use Gas Masks
The officer before us is instructing his squad in the use of gas masks. Thorough drill in this is of the utmost importance, for a few seconds delay in adjusting his mask in a gas attack may incapacitate a soldier for service and subject him to weeks of agony, if not death.