Stereoscopes (also known as stereographs, or stereoscopic views) are generally sets of two photographs mounted side-by-side on cards, designed so that when looked at through a viewer they would appear three dimensional. They came into popularity in the late 1800s, and peaked in popularity between 1900 and 1940.
The collection consists of stereoscopic cards and one viewer. While the images are mostly tourist in nature and cover much of the world, the images published by the Kinsey Photograph Studio (of Sedro-Woolley, WA) are all of Washington state's North Cascades.
Items in the collection come from five publishers: International Stereographic Co.; Keystone View Company; Kinsey Photograph Studio; "Popular Series" [poss. by J Fortesuce Mann]; Underwood and Underwood. Most publishers have an item number on the image, and so the stereographs are organized alphabetically by publisher, and then by the publisher's number within those. Where no number is given, items are generally organized by date. Within the largest series (Keystone View Company), the publisher's number system is loosely geographical.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Items in this collection are likely no longer in copyright.
[Item Description] Stereoscopic cards and Viewer, 1889-1913 (PC 151)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The majority of the Stereoscopic cards and Viewer in this collection were donated to MASC by Trevor James Bond on July 16, 2012
This collection was processed by University Archivist Mark O'English in July, 2012.
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