Finding Aid for the Israel Stollman collection of stereographs
Beth Ann Guynn
Descriptive Summary
Title: Israel Stollman collection of stereographs
Date (inclusive): 1850-1979, undated
Number: 2005.R.11
Creator/Collector:
Stollman, Israel
Physical Description:
61.4 Linear Feet
(84 boxes, 2 flatfile folders, 1 roll)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
reference@getty.edu
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Comprising over 9,100 items, the
majority of which are card stereographs (mounted photographic prints), the Israel Stollman
collection of stereographs focuses on views of cities and urban areas, especially in the
United States. As such the collection is not only a significant resource on the development
of modern urban sites, but it also encapsulates the history of the production of
stereographs, which flourished from the 1850s through the 1930s. The collection also
contains a small number of transparencies and images printed on glass in the form of
stereographs and lantern slides, a collection of stereo viewers, and small amount of related
ephemera.
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Language: Collection material is in English with some French and German.
Biographical/Historical Note
Israel Stollman, FAICP, was an American urban planner. He was born in 1923 on the Lower
East Side of New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Stollman completed a BS in
social science with an independent major in housing and planning from City College of New
York in 1947 after taking two-and-one-half years off during World War II to serve in the
Army Air Corps. The following year he received a master's degree in city planning from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Stollman was then hired by the Cleveland Planning Commission as a junior planner and he
also taught at Western Reserve University. In 1951, he became assistant planning director
for the city of Youngstown, Ohio and rose to the position of planning director before
joining the faculty of Ohio State University in 1957, where he was instrumental in
establishing its graduate program in city and regional planning. He directed that program
for the next decade.
Upon the death of Dennis O'Harrow in 1968 Stollman became the executive director of the
American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) in Chicago. During the 1970s, Stollman
concentrated on recruiting Black urban planners to the board of the ASPO, opening the
planning field to minorities, and preparing the merger of the ASPO with the American
Institute of Planners (AIP), which resulted in the formation of the American Planning
Association (APA) in 1978. Stollman served as executive director of the APA until his
retirement in 1994, after which he remained active in the organization. In 1999, he became a
charter member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) College of Fellows. He
also continued his teaching career at the University of Virginia Northern Virginia Center at
Falls Church. Stollman died in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2005 while he and his wife Mary
were visiting one of their three daughters.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
The Israel Stollman collection of stereographs, 1850-1939, The Getty Research Institute,
Los Angeles, Accession no. 2005.R.11.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2005r11
Acquisition Information
From the stereo collection of Israel Stollman. Acquired in 2005.
Processing History
The collection was processed by Beth Guynn, Lily Tsukahira, Linda Kleiger, and Jan Bender
in 2009 and 2014. Guynn wrote the finding aid.
Related Archival Materials
The Getty Research library also holds another smaller collection of materials assembled by
Israel Stollman, accession number 2009.R.18, Israel Stollman Collection of Stereographs and
Postcards, 1860-1930, containing approximately 398 stereographs and one postcard album of
approximately 383 postcards. Additional large stereograph collections assembled by the
repository include accession numbers ZS 1, Expositions Stereograph Collection; ZS 2 Cities
and Sites Stereograph collection; ZSG 2 Cities and Sites Glass Stereograph Collection; and
ZS 1 Expositions Stereograph Collection.
Scope and Content of Collection
Israel Stollman began building the present collection in 1957 when he was hired by Ohio
State University and charged with establishing a new graduate program in city and regional
planning. He intended the collection to be used as a teaching and study tool in the broadest
sense of the word, and continued to add to it throughout his career. In addition to using
the collection for teaching urban planning, Stollman often used the perspectival qualities
of stereographs to convince his private clients of particular design solutions.
Comprising over 9,100 items, the majority of which are card stereographs (pairs of mounted
photographs of the same image taken from two slightly different perspectives), the focus of
the collection is views of cities and urban areas, especially of the United States. As such,
the collection is not only a significant resource for the development of modern urban sites,
but it also encapsulates the history of the production of stereographs which flourished from
the 1850s through the 1930s. Disseminated widely for both personal entertainment and as
teaching aids, stereographs were influential conveyors of information that helped form
popular perceptions about a region, an object, or another culture. Their images were often
reinforced by the texts printed on their versos which usually conveyed a specific cultural
bias.
The individual stereographs in Series I form the core of the collection. Stollman collected
these stereographs individually or in small groups. Stereographs of North America form
almost half of this series. The cities of New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. are
prominently represented. Major European cities and sites, especially those of France,
Germany, Great Britain, and Italy are also well-represented. Broadly speaking, over 95
percent of the stereographs deal with urban themes. Other subjects including landscapes and
rural views, ancient sites, famous personalities, interiors, railroads, views of monuments
and works of art, views of significant events, and genre scenes and representations of local
peoples can be found within the individual countries represented in the collection.
Views of national and international expositions ranging from the Crystal Palace (London,
1851) to the Century of Progress Exposition (Chicago, 1933-1934) are also present. These
stereographs help to reinforce the relationship of the design of world's fairs and the
development of urban planning as a profession.
Nearly every major publisher of stereographs is represented in this series including the
American Stereoscopic Company; B. W. Kilburn Company (Kilburn Brothers); Breveté; E. &
H. T. Anthony; Ferrier et Soulier; H. C. White Co.; Griffith & Griffith; Keystone View
Company; Léon et Lévy; London Stereoscopic Company; Stereo-Travel Co.; Underwood &
Underwood; Universal Photo Art Company; and the Universal Stereoscopic View Company.
Photographers of note include Charles Bierstadt; Adolphe Braun; Abel Briquet; Giacomo
Brogi; Francis Frith; Frank Mason Good; B.W. Kilburn; Eadweard Muybridge; Alfredo Noack;
Robert Rive; Giorgio Sommer; James Valentine (Valentine & Sons); and George Washington
Wilson. Approximately ten percent of the views are unique, that is taken by amateur or
little-known photographers. These include early European views and American views by
small-town photographers.
Series II comprises boxed sets, that is stereographs purchased as sets and usually sold
housed in special boxes. In addition to a Keystone View Company,
Tour
of the World
set, there are sets for individual countries, a set of stereographs
documenting medical conditions, small format sets, and sets of film positive
stereographs.
Small groups of glass format stereographs and lantern slides representing a variety of
countries are found in Series III. Most of these items are unsigned, but stereograph makers
include Ferrier & Soulier and Brevité. A number of the glass lantern slides are
hand-colored. Stollman collected a variety of stereoviewers ranging from free-standing
pedestal viewers to handheld viewers to compact collapsible viewers; these objects are found
in Series IV. Some of the viewers were made to accompany the stereoscopes produced by a
specific publisher and are of a more mass-produced nature, while others, especially the
nineteenth-century models made by opticians and cabinet makers as parlor pieces, exhibit the
qualities of small pieces of finished cabinetry.
Finally, Series V comprises various materials loosely related to stereographs such as a
printed sheet of stereoviews, price lists, and steorograph club literature.
Arrangement
Organized in five series:
Series
I: Individual stereographs, 1850-1960;
Series II: Boxed sets, 1890-1970s;
Series III: Glass stereographs
and lantern slides, 1860-1930;
Series IV: Stereoviewers,
1860-1979;
Series V: Prints, objects and
ephemera, 1893-1977, undated.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Good, Frank Mason, 1839-1928
Frith, Francis
Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West),
1827-1909
Braun, Adolphe, 1812-1877
Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903
Brogi, Giacomo,
1822-1881
Briquet, Abel
Rive, Robert
Wilson, G. W. (George
Washington), 1823-1893
Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914
Noack, Alfredo, 1833-1896
Valentine, James,
1815-1879
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
B.W. Kilburn Company
Ferrier et Soulier
Breveté
American Stereoscopic
Company
Keystone View Company
Stereo-Travel Co
Universal Stereoscopic View
Co
Universal Photo Art
Co
Griffith &
Griffith
London Stereoscopic Company
Léon et Lévy
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Location of
meeting: Saint Louis, Mo.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1904 :.)
Pan-American Exposition (Location of
meeting: Buffalo, N.Y.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1901 :.)
Century of Progress International Exposition
(Location of meeting: Chicago, Ill.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1933-1934
:.)
H.C. White Co.
E. & H.T. Anthony
(Firm)
Inter-State Industrial
Exposition of Chicago
Great Exhibition (Location of meeting:
London, England). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1851 :.)
Exposition universelle de Paris
en 1855
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial
Exposition (Location of meeting: New Orleans, La.). Date of meeting or treaty signing:
(1884-1885 :.)
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
California Midwinter
International Exposition (Location of meeting: San Francisco, Calif.). Date of meeting or
treaty signing: (1894 :.)
Centennial Exhibition (Location of meeting:
Philadelphia, Pa.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1876 :.)
Exposition universelle de 1867 à
Paris
Exposition universelle (Location of meeting:
Paris, France). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1900 :.)
Subjects - Topics
Exhibitions
Subjects - Places
Venezuela -- Description and travel
Uruguay -- Description and travel
Ukraine -- Description and travel
Sweden -- Description and travel
Wales -- Description and travel
Puerto Rico -- Description and travel
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- Description and travel
South Africa -- Description and travel
Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
Sudan -- Description and travel
Pakistan -- Description and travel
Panama -- Description and travel
Iceland -- Description and travel
Gibraltar -- Description and travel
Indonesia -- Description and travel
India -- Description and travel
Greenland -- Description and travel
Grenada -- Description and travel
Greece -- Description and travel
Hungary -- Description and travel
El Salvador -- Description and travel
Egypt -- Description and travel
Finland -- Description and travel
England -- Description and travel
Ireland -- Description and travel
Iran -- Description and travel
Ecuador -- Description and travel
Dominica -- Description and travel
Cuba -- Description and travel
Czechoslovakia -- Description and travel
Denmark -- Description and travel
Djibuti -- Description and travel
France -- Description and travel
Georgia (Republic) -- Description and travel
Colombia -- Description and travel
Congo -- Description and travel
Singapore -- Description and travel
Scotland -- Description and travel
Russia -- Description and travel
Portugal -- Description and travel
Poland -- Description and travel
Peru -- Description and travel
Palestine -- Description and travel
Philippines -- Description and travel
Norway -- Description and travel
Netherlands -- Description and travel
Yugoslavia -- Description and travel
United States -- Description and travel
Turkey -- Description and travel
Syria -- Description and travel
Switzerland -- Description and travel
Spain -- Description and travel
Malaysia -- Description and travel
Martinique -- Description and travel
Lebanon -- Description and travel
Malta -- Description and travel
Jordan -- Description and travel
Korea -- Description and travel
Nicaragua -- Description and travel
Outer space -- Description and travel
Italy -- Description and travel
Jamaica -- Description and travel
Jersey -- Description and travel
Israel -- Description and travel
Morocco -- Description and travel
Japan -- Description and travel
Mexico -- Description and travel
Monaco -- Description and travel
Bosnia -- Description and travel
Bolivia -- Description and travel
Bulgaria -- Description and travel
Brazil -- Description and travel
China -- Description and travel
Asia -- Description and travel
Bermuda -- Description and travel
Belgium -- Description and travel
Middle East -- Description and travel
Chile -- Description and travel
Canada -- Description and travel
North American -- Description and travel
Oceania -- Description and travel
Argentina -- Description and travel
Algeria -- Description and travel
Africa -- Description and travel
Australia -- Description and travel
Austria -- Description and travel
Genres and Forms of Material
Lantern slides -- 20th century
Lantern slides -- 19th century
Collotypes -- 19th century
Photographic transparencies -- 20th century
Collotypes -- 20th century
Photomechanical prints -- 19th century
Photomechanical prints -- 20th century
Albumen prints -- 19th century
Tissue stereographs -- 19th century
Stereographs -- 20th century
Stereographs -- 19th century
Hand-colored photographic prints -- 19th century
Relief halftones -- 19th century
Gelatin silver prints -- 19th century
Photographs, Original
Stereoscopes -- 19th century
Stereoscopes -- 20th century
Gelatin silver prints -- 20th century
Contributors
Stollman, Israel
Series I.
Individual stereographs,
1850-1960
Physical Description:
31.65 Linear
Feet
(49 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Stollman collected these stereographs individually or in small groups. Stereographs of
North America form almost half of this series, contained in twenty-two boxes. The cities
of New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. are prominently represented. Major European
cities and sites, especially those of France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy are also
well-represented. Broadly speaking, over 95 percent of the stereographs deal with urban
themes. Other images of more general subjects including landscapes and rural views,
ancient sites, famous personalities, interiors, railroads, views of monuments and works
of art, genre scenes, and representations of local peoples can be found within the
individual countries represented in the collection. Significant events such as the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius in December, 1861 and the coronation of Nicholas II in 1896
are also documented in the collection.
The series also contains views of national and international expositions ranging from
the Crystal Palace (London, 1851) to the Century of Progress Exposition (Chicago
1933-1934). These stereographs help to reinforce the relationship of the design of
world's fairs and the development of urban planning as a profession.
Nearly every major publisher of stereographs is represented in this series including
the American Stereoscopic Company; B. W. Kilburn Company (Kilburn Brothers); Breveté; E.
& H. T. Anthony; Ferrier et Soulier; H. C. White Co.; Griffith & Griffith;
Keystone View Company; Keystone View Company; Léon et Lévy; London Stereoscopic Company;
Stereo-Travel Co.; Underwood & Underwood; Universal Photo Art Company; and the
Universal Stereoscopic View Company.
Photographers of note include Charles Bierstadt; Adolphe Braun; Abel Briquet; Giacomo
Brogi; Francis Frith; Frank Mason Good; B.W. Kilburn; Eadweard Muybridge; Alfredo Noack;
Robert Rive; Giorgio Sommer; James Valentine (Valentine & Sons); and George
Washington Wilson. Approximately ten percent of the views are unique, that is taken by
amateur or little-known photgraphers. These include early European views and American
views by small-town photographers.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by continent or geographical region (with a Roman numeral
assigned to each box within the continent/region); then by country; and then by city,
when appropriate. Continents/geographical regions include: Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania. Stereographs featuring people are found at
the end of each country. The United States stereographs are arranged by state and then
city when appropriate. Outer Space and Expositions are the final categories.
box 7
II (Finland-France I)
Scope and Content Note
Cities are alphabetically arranged through Nîmes.
box 10
IV (France III: Paris II)
box 10
V (France IV: Paris III-France end)
Scope and Content Note
After the end of Paris the box continues alphabetically by city.
box 12
VII (Germany II-Great Britain I)
Scope and Content Note
England stereographs go through London I.
box 13
VIII (Great Britain II: England II-Scotland I)
Scope and Content Note
England stereographs begin with London II. Scotland stereographs go through
Edinburgh I.
box 14
IX (Great Britain III: Scotland II-Wales; Hungary)
Scope and Content Note
Scotland stereographs begin at Edinburgh II.
box 20
XV (Poland-Russia I: A-P)
box 21
XVI (Russia II: S-Z; Spain I: A-Seg)
box 22
XVII (Spain II: Sev-Z; Switzerland)
box 23, folder 1
XVIII (Sweden-Yugoslavia)
box 26
III (Mexico II-US: AL-California I)
box 29
VI (US: Hawaii-Illinois I [Chicago I])
box 30
VII (US: Illinois II [Chicago II])
box 31
VIII (US: Illinois III [Chicago III]-Maryland)
box 33
X (US: Massachusetts II-Montana)
box 34
XI (US: Nebraska-New York I [through NYC I])
box 35
XII (US: New York II [NYC II])
box 36
XIII (US: New York III [NYC III])
box 37
XIV (US: New York IV [NYC IV])
box 38
XV (US: New York V [NYC V])
box 39
XVI (US: New York V [NYC VI])
box 40
XVII (US: New York VII [Niagara-end]; Ohio I)
box 41
XVIII (Ohio II-Pennsylvania)
box 42
XIX (Rhode Island-Washington, D.C. I)
box 44
XXI (Washington, D.C. III)
box 45
XXII (Washington, D.C. IV; Washington State-Wyoming; US various
subjects)
box 46, folder 2
I
Scope and Content Note
Contains expositions dated 1851 (Crystal Palace, London) to 1893 I (World's
Columbian Exposition, Chicago).
box 47
II
Scope and Content Note
Contains expositions dated 1893 II (World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago) to 1904
(Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis).
box 48
III
Scope and Content Note
Contains expositions dated 1904 (Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis) to 1933
(Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago).
Series II.
Boxed sets,
1890-1970s?
Physical Description:
12 Linear
Feet
(22 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The series comprises boxed sets, that is stereographs purchased as sets and usually
sold housed in special boxes. In addition to the Keystone View Company,
Tour of the World set, there are sets for individual
countries, a set of stereographs documenting medical conditions, small-format sets and
sets of film positive stereographs. Included among the small sets is a set of ten
homemade stereographs of local Cincinnati exterior and interior views by an unknown
amateur photographer pasted onto cards whose versos contain endorsements for political
candidates running in the 1895 Cincinnati election.
Arrangement
After the
Tour of the World set the boxed sets are
arranged alphabetically by country.
Keystone View Company,
Tour of the
World
,
between 1892 and 1933
box 54
Underwood & Underwood, China,
1900-1901
box 55, folder 1
Underwood & Underwood, Belgium,
1901
box 55, folder 2
H.C. White Co., France,
1901
box 56
Underwood & Underwood, Egypt,
1905
Scope and Content Note
Accompanied by James Henry Brested,
Egypt through the
Stereoscope
, Underwood & Underwood, 1905.
box 57
Underwood & Underwood, England,
approximately 1900
box 58
Underwood & Underwood, India,
approximately 1900
box 59
Underwood & Underwood, Italy,
1901
box 60, folder 1
Underwood & Underwood, Jerusalem,
approximately 1900
box 60, folder 2
H.C. White Co., Perfec-Stereographs,
1901
Original boxes,
1900-1905
Scope and Content Note
Includes original boxes for the boxed sets housed in boxes 54-60.
Dr. S.I. Rainforth,
Medical
Conditions
,
1910
box 63, folder 1
Keystone View Company,
Universal Unit
X-2
,
1930s
Scope and Content Note
Five 2 1/2 x 4 3/4 inch gelatin silver stereographs (assorted views) with printed
set description and original cellophane wrapper bearing a Marshall Field and Company
gummed label.
box 63, folder 2
# 107
Tour of the Big Cities of
America
,
1890-1900?
Scope and Content Note
Twenty-three color letterpress halftone stereographs from a set of 25 by an unknown
maker. Includes original box.
box 63, folder 3
Rellev, Views of Morroco and Spain,
1933-1934
Scope and Content Note
Seventy-seven 2 1/4 x 5 inch gelatin silver stereographs from various Rellev
series.
box 63, folder 4
World Views proofs
approximately 1900
Scope and Content Note
Twenty-three 4 1/2 x 7 inch gelatin silver sterographic proof prints. Some numbered
in the negative; all numbered in pencil on verso and stamped either "Good" or
"Medium."
box 63, folder 5
Cincinnati Election Views,
1895
Scope and Content Note
Ten homemade collodion [?] stereographs of local exterior and interior views by an
unknown amateur photographer. Prints 1 1/2 x 2 inches on cards 2 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches.
Versos of cards printed by Allied Printing, Cincinnati, each containing an
endorsement for a political candidate running in the 5 November 1895 Cincinnati [?]
election. Texts are in English and German.
box 63, folder 6
American Stereoscopic Views, San Francisco and Environs,
circa 1930s
Scope and Content Note
Seven sets of gelatin silver stereographs, 3 5/16 x 4 7/16 inches, with original
printed envelopes: San Francisco I (11); San Francisco II (10); Golden Gate Park,
San Francisco (10); Oakland (10); Lake Merritt, Oakland (10); Marin County (10);
Round San Francisco Bay (9). Left image with Series name and number in negative;
right image with title in image. Distributed by Oliver Enders.
box 63, folder 7
Universal Photo Art Co.,
Stereograph Gems,
vol. 1
1900-1904
Scope and Content Note
Thirty-six platino print stereographs (world views and genre scenes) bound in a
leather book for use with an Ideal Stereoscope viewer. Published by G. H. Graves,
Philadelphia. Descriptions are printed on the verso of the succeeding stereograph so
that they can be read while the image is being viewed.
box 65
Film positives,
1930s?
Scope and Content Note
Stereographs on reversal film, i.e. photographic transparencies.
box 65, folder 1
Russia (Hermitage),
1960s-1970s?
Scope and Content Note
Twenty chromogenic color or tinted stereographs with one sheet of description;
mounts 1 7/8 x 4 inches.
Stéréofilms Bruguière,
1950s?
Scope and Content Note
Black-and-white stereopositives; 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches. Views of France and Italy
(Rome) in sets of twelve. Some sets are incomplete. Titled and numbered on the film
in the space between the images. For the stereoviewer that accompanies the set see
box 74.
box 65, folder 2
I
Scope and Content Note
Nine stereographs.
box 65, folder 4
L'Alsace I
Scope and Content Note
Eleven stereographs.
box 65, folder 5
Stereopositives
Scope and Content Note
Eleven stereographs.
box 65, folder 6
Glass slides
Scope and Content Note
Eleven brown-tinted stereographs; numbered on glass between images.
box 65, folder 12
Paris
Scope and Content Note
Set is randomly numbered and contains a variety of views.
box 65, folder 13
Les Invalides
Scope and Content Note
Set is randomly numbered.
box 65, folder 15
I
Scope and Content Note
Two stereographs are from the Paris: II. Monuments series.
box 65, folder 16
II
Scope and Content Note
Eleven stereographs.
box 65, folder data_value_missing_fae865ce78394a17829c7b14f4697170
box 65, folder 21
Musei gallerie Pontificie
Series III.
Glass stereographs and lantern slides,
1860-1930
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear
Feet
(7 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Small groups of glass format stereographs and lantern slides representing a variety of
countries are found in this series. Most items are unsigned, but stereograph makers
include Ferrier & Soulier and Brevité. A number of the glass lantern slides are
hand-colored.
Arrangement
Arranged by format and then size.
box 67-68
Standard size glass stereographs,
between 1860 and 1900
Scope and Content Note
Fifty assorted stereographs. Countries represented include: Czechoslovakia; England;
France; Germany; Italy; Netherlands; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; and Israel. Most
stereographs are unsigned, but makers include Ferrier & Soulier and Brevité.
box 69-70
2 1/4 x 5 inch glass stereographs,
1930s
Scope and Content Note
Fifty-one stereographs; all without a cover glass. Mostly Canada (Quebec, Montreal,
and British Columbia) with a few images of France and Italy.
box 71-73
Glass lantern slides,
between 1880 and 1920
Scope and Content Note
Seventy-nine glass lantern slides, many are hand-colored. Countries represented
include: Egypt; Burma; China; India; Austria; France; Germany; Great Britain
(England); Italy; Netherlands; Poland; Russia; Spain; United States; and Brazil.
Makers include Keystone, Chicago Transparency Co., T. H. McAllister, Joseph Hawkes;
and Edward van Alten.
Series IV.
Stereoviewers,
1860-1979
Physical Description:
6.7 Linear
Feet
(7 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
Stollman collected a variety of stereoviewers ranging from free-standing pedestal
viewers to handheld viewers to compact collapsible viewers. Some of the viewers were
made to accompany the stereoscopes produced by a specific publisher and are of more of a
mass-produced nature, while others, especially the nineteenth-century models made by
opticians and cabinet makers as parlor pieces, exhibit the qualities of small pieces of
finished cabinetry.
Arrangement
Arranged as found in collection.
box 74
Stéréofilms Bruguière Stéreoscope,
1950s?
Scope and Content Note
Black leatherette cardboard and plastic box viewer with original cardboard box (lid
detached); lenses detached (lacking one lens). Printed on box: Stéréofilms Bruguière /
Stéreoscope / pour / positifs 45-107.
box 75
Keystone televiewer,
approximately 1931
Scope and Content Note
Blue plastic viewer with grey rattail neck cord (not original); missing stereoholder,
lightbulb attachment, and handle. Patented in 1931 (patent number 160196) and in
production until approximately 1948.
box 76, item 1
Keystone expandable viewer,
1933?
Scope and Content Note
Burgundy and black metal viewer for 4 3/8 in. glass [?] stereographs. Possibly a
viewer from Keystone's Chicago 1933 World's Fair set.
box 76, item 2
Soviet SKF-1 viewer,
1970s?
Scope and Content Note
Yellow and black plastic viewer.
box 77, item 1
Coronet 3-D viewer,
approximately 1954
Scope and Content Note
Black plastic folding stereoviewer for black-and-white stereo prints or film
transparencies with original paper wrapper. Made in Birmingham, England.
box 77, item 2
Solsona expandable viewer,
1930s
Scope and Content Note
Black metal viewer for 7.5 cm glass [?] stereographs. Printed on face: Solsona /
Galletas / Chocolates / Madrid / Barcelona.
box 78**
Pedestal stereoviewer,
between 1860 and 1910
box 79**
Tabletop stereographoscope,
between 1860 and 1910
Scope and Content Note
Rosewood [?] stereographoscope of nineteenth century French or English origin with a
large attached magnifying glass for viewing cabinet cards. The stereograph holder is
lacking the smoked or frosted glass backing necessary for backlighting tissue
stereographs.
box 80**
Handheld viewer,
between 1860 and 1910
Scope and Content Note
Burlwood or bird's-eye maple case with brass and glass fittings.
Series V
Prints, objects and ephemera,
1893-1977, undated
Physical Description:
8.6 Linear
Feet
(2 boxes, 2 flatfiles and 1
roll)
Scope and Content Note
The series comprises various materials loosely related to stereographs such as a
printed sheet of stereoviews, price lists, and sterograph club literature.
Arrangement
Arrannged as found in collection.
box 81
The Ferris Wheel, World's Fair 1893,
1893
Scope and Content Note
Sepia-toned photograph in a silver plated seashell frame.
box 82, folder 1
Ephemera,
1974-1977
Scope and Content Note
Includes a National Stereoscope Association brochure entitled "The World Isn't Flat,
So Why Are Your Pictures?" and a catalog and price list for reproductions of the
original stereographs of H. H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett.
box 82, folder 2
Map of a Chinese city,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Large printed map bound in silk and folded of an ancient Chinese city or site.
flatfile 1**
Sheet of stereoviews,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Untitled photomechanical print with 48 stereo images, circa 111.5 x 74.5 cm.
flatfile 2**
Bird's-eye view of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
1893
Scope and Content Note
One photomechanical print, circa 75.5 x 100 cm.
roll 1**
Pennsylvania Station, New York City...,
approximately 1910
Scope and Content Note
Caption continues: Seventh Avenue and Thirty-Second Street; looking toward Long
Island. Photomechanical print on fabric backing circa 85.5 x 146.5 cm.
