Box 1, Folder 1-4
3D comic books
1953-1989
Scope and Contents
Thirty-two 3D comic books, most from the mid to late 1980s. In addition, there are three vintage 3D comic books:
Animal Fun 3-D (1953), missing 3D glasses;
3 Dimensional Noodnik (1953), missing 3D glasses; and
3-D Bat Man (1966), with 3D glasses laid in.
Box 7, Box 8, Box 9, Box 10, Folder 3
3D photography viewers, advertising images, and promotional material
1951-2010
Scope and Contents
More than 30 advertising images and promotional pieces using 3D technology, including a McDonald's Happy Meal Box with glasses
and an Absolut Vodka advertisement shaped like a bottle that doubles as a 3D viewer. Also includes a variety of 3D photography
viewers and accompanying materials, including:
- Stereo Realist Complete Mounting Kit in a green case
- 3D Metro Cruiser glasses for experiencing the web in 3D
- Two boxes of unused aluminum stereomount masks made by Edme
- Stereo Realist Flash Attachment
- 1-0 display systems 6 VDC glasses with headphones and cords, used with tape repair and other wear
- Stereo Realist viewer model 2062 with light scuffing
- Taylor Merchant 3D paper viewers, three copies
- Two plastic 3D viewer in original plastic, no marking
- Brown View Master (1951) with wear with 12 View Master reels, including Mickey Mouse, Spiderman and Archie
- A collection of more than 100 paper 3D glasses with various advertising and other promotional markings
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Double Vision 3D Damsels, San Jose, CA: The Added Dimension, Inc., no date. Paper printed 3D stereoview in original plastic package
- 100 3D Damsels adult trading cards in a plastic storage case
Box 3, Box 4
Books using 3D images
1935-1998
Scope and Contents
Books using 3D and 3D images, including:
- Jim Pomeroy's
Ver Multidimensionales, includes a View Master viewer and 21 3D photographs in the original box
- Charles & Ray Eames Stereo Photographs 3D View Master reels
- Petrillo, Tom.
Mound Ten Views, a Stereo Book and Concession Stand, 1985 with unassembled stereopticon 707
- Blum, Mark.
Bugs in 3-D, San Francisco: Chronicle Books: 1998, with glasses, as new
- Sammon, Rick.
3-D Wings: Fabulous Flying Machines. Charlottesville. VA: Thomasson-Grant, Inc.: 1995, with glasses, very good
- Lemon, Harvey Brace.
From Galileo to Cosmic Rays: A New Look at Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935, second impression. In original box with viewers. Box is worn with corner tape
repairs.
- Lloyd, Harold.
3-D Hollywood. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, includes 3-D viewer.
- Jones, John.
Wonders of the Stereoscope. New York: Alfred .A. Knopf, 1976. Reproductions of Victorian stereocards with a stereo viewer
- A group of 19 additional books about the history of 3D printing and stereographs, along with information about creating 3D
imagery and storytelling. For example, William Darrah's
The World of Stereographs published in 1977 and
Paris in 3D to Dimensional Photography by Herbert McKay published in 1953.
Box 2, Box 10, Folder 2
Magazines featuring 3D photography
1970-2018
Scope and Contents
A group of magazines on 3D photography or featuring 3D photography, including:
- Two issues of
Computer Graphic World: April and December 2009
- Three issues of
Stereo World; May/June 2017; May/June and July/August 2018
- Five issues of
Starlog: Number 5, 41, 54 and the "Starlog Fantastic" 3-D photo guidebook and "Starlog Spectacular"
- A group of 21 various magazines featuring 3D imaging within their pages or features on 3D, including the August 1998
National Geographic with 3D glasses and images of Mars;
Astronomy March 1998 "3-D Blowout"; and the
Hollywood Reporter with a 3D image on the cover
Box 1, Folder 5
Visual Dynamics Showcase, California Institute of Technology
1983-11-19-1983-11-20
Processing Information
Rehoused from a three-ring binder to archival folders.
Box 1, Folder 6-10
3-D Hines System
1982-1995
Scope and Contents
A red binder labeled "3-D Hines System" containing five magazines, correspondence from HinesLab (Glendale, CA), and a variety
of photocopied "how to" articles regarding the operation of 3D cameras. During processing, the contents of the binder were
rehoused into archival folders.
Box 5, Box 6, Box 10, Folder 1
3D imaging products, services, and workshops
1978-2010
Scope and Contents
Mirano's files on a variety of different products and services for printing 3D images and producing special effects as well
as paperwork and notes from attending workshops relating to 3D imaging and special effects. Companies and topics documented
in these files include MKD Productions, Extra Dimensional Products, ICG Stereoscopic 3D Workshop at the Sony 3D Technology
Center (2010), Visual Effects Society (VES) meetings and workshops, Kodak, Stereo Labs, Project 640 - View-Master, Reel 3-D
News, Nishika 3-D, and ChromaDepth 3-D.