Guide to the Stereoscopic Views Collection
Guide to the Stereoscopic Views Collection, ca. 1877-1913
Collection number: Mss 121
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
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- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by R. Barker; latest revision, D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 31 October 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
Scope and Content of Collection
- American Stereoscopic Co. (NY)
- B. W. Kilburn (Littleton, NH)
- Galbreath, Harvey & Lyles (Manitou, CO)
- H. C. White (N. Bennington VT)
- Ingersoll View Company [also T. W. Ingersoll] (St. Paul, MN)
- J. C. Moulton (Fitchburg, MA)
- Keystone View Co. (Meadville, PA; Portland, OR; St. Louis, San Francisco, Toronto, New York, London; Sydney)
- Littleton View Co. (Littleton, NH)
- Miller View Co. (Tyrone, PA)
- Montgomery Ward & Co. (Chicago, IL)
- R. M. McIntosh (Northfield, VT)
- Savage & Ottinger's (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Strohmeyer and Wyman
- Thomas Houseworth & Co. (San Francisco, CA)
- Underwood & Underwood (New York; London; Toronto; Ottawa, KS)
- W. N. Hobbs (Exeter, NH)
- Webfoot View Company
- World Wide View Co. (Chicago)
- American Stereographs: A Selection from Private Collections (Grey Gallery, 1980).
- Brewster, David. The Stereoscope: Its History, Theory, and Construction (1971). Darrah, William Culp. The World of Stereographs (1977).
- Darrah William Culp. Stereo Views: A History of Stereographs in America and Their Collection(1964).
- Jones, John. Wonders of the Stereoscope (1976).Symons, K. C. M. Stereoscopic Cameras (1978).
- Treadwell, T. K. Stereographers of the World (1994).
- Waldsmith, John S. Stereo Views: An Illustrated History and Price Guide (1991).
- Wing, Paul. Stereoscopes: The First One Hundred Years (1996).
Series 1. California
Scope and Content Note
Granite Hill Mine and Shaft House, Stanislaus River, Tuolumne Co., 1907
Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, 1895
Riverside - Magnolia Ave., 1902
San Francisco - Sites - Cliff House, 1909
San Francisco (Bay Area) - Earthquake and Fire, 1906 - 1907
Santa Barbara - trees, n.d.
South Pasadena - ostrich farm, 1903
Yosemite, 1894 - 1909
Series 2. Other U.S.
Scope and Content Note
Alaska - going up the Yukon River, 1900
Arizona - Bonito Canyon, Grand Canyon, Hopi Reservation, Petrified Forest, n.d.
Colorado - Cheyenne Canyon, Garden of the Gods, Manitou Springs, Monumental Park, n.d.
Florida - Ocklawaha River, orange groves, St. Augustine, St. Johns River, Silver Spring, Forest Highway, homes, n.d.
Georgia - Lookout Mountain, Savannah Resin market, n.d.
Hawaii - banana plantation, Koloa (Kauai), 1898
Maine - Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert, n.d.
Massachusetts - Boston, 1898, 1901
New Hampshire - Isle of Shoals, Mt. Washington, n.d.
New York - Au Sable River, New York City, Niagara Falls, n.d.
Ohio - Cincinnati, n.d.
Oregon - Columbia River, Mt. Hood, Salem, n.d.
South Carolina - Olympian Cotton Mills (Columbia), 1902
Utah - Salt Lake City, Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, n.d.
Vermont - Sheldon, n.d.
Virginia - Caverns of Luray, Rockbridge County, ca. 1882-1883, 1902
Washington - Puget Sound salmon, 1902
Washington, D.C. - Arlington Cemetery, Washington Monument, White House, n.d.
Wisconsin - Castle Rock, Minniehaha Springs, n.d.
Series 3. Other Countries
Scope and Content Note
Algeria - Algiers, n.d.
Austria - Tyrol, 1898
Belgium - Brussels, 1894, 1901
British West Indies - St. Vincent, 1903
Burma - schoolboys by the Irrawaddy River, 1905
Canada - Montreal, Niagara Falls, Rocky Mountains, Thousand Islands (St. Lawrence River), n.d.
Ceylon - elephants, rice harvesting, sunset on the ocean, 1902 - 1903
China - Allied forces at Port of Tang Ku, Canton, Manchuria -Mukden, Port Arthur, Peking -Forbidden City, bride and bridegroom, 1900 - 1905
Costa Rica - gathering cocoa pods, 1904
Cuba - home in rural Havana Province, 1898
Denmark - Copenhagen, 1897 - 1905
Egypt - Cairo, n.d.
El Salvador - tortilla making, 1902
England - London, ca. 1901 - 1904
France - Marseille, Paris, n.d.
Germany -Berlin, Castle Soonick, Karlsbad, n.d.
Greece - Parthenon, Temple of Athens, n.d.
Greenland - Eskimo and summer tents, 1902
India - Durbar at Delhi, mountains near Simla, children in Kashmir, Nepalese female porters, 1902 - 1903
Indonesia - Banka Island and other Djambi villages, people, rural scenes, 1912 - 1913
Ireland - Belfast, County Monaghan, Dublin, Giant's Causeway, Kenmare, Killarney, 1901 - 1903
Italy - Italian Alps, Milan Pompeii, sites of Rome, n.d.
Japan - Mount Fuji, Nara, Nikko, Tokyo, Yokohama, Battleship 'Asahi', gardens and parks, hospital, military, people of different occupations, rural life, street scenes, temples, n.d.
Korea - agriculture, scenes of houses and market, 1901, 1904
Martinique - City of the Dead (St. Pierre), volcano damage, 1903
Mexico - Mexico City cathedral, Vera Cruz copper mines, n.d.
Netherlands - Volendam, 1904
Norway - fjords, mountain homes and roads, royal palace at Christiana, 1896, 1905-1906
Palestine - Jerusalem pilgrims and sites, Hebron mosque, Mt. Carmel, butter churner, n.d.
Philippines - Manila merchants, street scenes, Binendo Canal, saw mill on Island of Cebu, n.d.
Puerto Rico - pineapple fields, 1899
Russia - views of Moscow, Nijni-Novgorod, St. Petersburg, n.d.
Scotland - Valley of the Tay, 1898
South Africa - Boers, Cape Town, President Paul Kruger, 1900 - 1902
Spain - Alhambra at Granada, 1902
Sweden - Husqvarna, Stockholm sites, 1897, 1906
Switzerland - Brienz, Lucerne, Matterhorn, St. Bernard, St. Gotthard Railroad, mountain villages and scenery, agriculture, glaciers, climbing, alpenhorn, winter sports, woodcarving, 1901 - 1909
Series 4. Subjects
Scope and Content Note
Arizona gold and copper mining, 1903
Blackfeet Indians, Glacier National Park, Montana, n.d.
Columbian Exposition - Liberal Arts Building, 1893
Expedition of 1871-1874 (War Department, Corps of Engineers) - Apache, Mojave, Navajo, Ute, and Zuni, 1871 - 1874
Klondike, 1898
Miscellany, n.d.
Native Americans
Naval Vessels -'Iowa', 'New York', 'Oregon', 1898 - 1901
Ouray[Co], 1890
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876
Spanish American War, 1898
U.S. Civil War, n.d.
Yellowstone, n.d.