Creators:

H.C. White Co., Publisher and White, Hawley C., Photographer

Extent:

38 stereographs

Biographical / historical:

Hawley C. White (dates unknown) was an inventor, photographer and stereograph publisher who founded the H.C. White company in North Bennington, Vermont in 1874. He began his career as an optometrist in New York City, and earned recognition for the quality of his stereoscopes and stereoviews.

He didn't start producing stereographs until 1899, when he began to introduce innovations in automating the production of stereoviews. He may have been one of the first to use assembly line techniques such as cutting and mounting photographic prints by machine, and built a factory dedicated to mechanized stereograph production. He also printed lengthy descriptions on the backs of his stereoviews, which was somewhat unusual at the time.

Though White was a photographer himself, he employed other photographers in order to increase his output. Faced with the declining popularity of stereographs, he decided to retire in 1915 and sold his negatives, as did many others, to Keystone View Company. Keystone View Company marked their White images with a "W" prefix in the title.

Information taken from:

Paul Rubenstein. "H.C. White." The Yellowstone Stereoview Page. Accessed February 20, 2019. https://www.yellowstonestereoviews.com/publishers/white.html.

Subjects:

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Pictorial works
Stereographs

Places:

Mount Shasta (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Mariposa Grove (Calif.) -- Pictorial works

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