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Stereoscopic Views
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Afghanistan: Photographs from Keystone Mast 
 Contains 30 photographs of Afghanistan, taken in 1933. Includes text originally printed on the back of each stereo card. Features images of streets, people, homes, and landscapes. From the Keystone Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/afghan/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, September 11 & Beyond Last updated Jun 10, 2006 Balancing the Lenses: Stereoviews of the Middle East
This exhibition "seeks to provide a general view of the complex interactions between 'the West' and 'the East' as reflected in stereographic images. The countries shown include Algeria, Egypt, India, Morocco, Palestine (modern Israel, West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and parts of Egypt, Syria and Jordan), Tunisia and Turkey." Includes an image gallery (images taken between 1890 and 1940), anaglyphs, and letters and maps. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/balancingthelenses/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Jun 21, 2009 Depth Charge: Digital Anaglyphs From the Digital Studio
Each image in this exhibit "is a pairing of a Keystone Mast photograph, taken with a stereographic camera decades ago, and a new image. ... Both images are shown in 'anaglyphic' format -- meaning that if seen with inexpensive 'three-D' glasses ... they give the illusion of a three-dimensional image. In this form, images seem to possess depth." Includes introductory essay. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/depthcharge/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography Last updated Sep 20, 2006 Dialogue Among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California
Companion to a 2008-09 exhibit about photographer Carleton Watkins, whose career "began auspiciously during the gold rush (which started in 1849) and ended abruptly with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire that destroyed his negatives." Features a slide show of Watkins' photographs, a simulation of a stereograph as seen through a stereoscope, and a video about the wet collodion photography process. From the Getty Museum. http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/dialogue_giants/ Topics: Artists, Photograph Collections Last updated Mar 23, 2009 The Golden Door: Immigration Images From the Keystone-Mast Collection
A collection of nearly 70 photographs concerning turn of the 20th century immigration to the United States. Topics include Ellis Island, immigrant life and labor, and World's Fair "foreign villages" (mostly taken in St. Louis, Missouri). From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/immigration/default.html Topics: Emigration & Immigration, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Jun 12, 2006 Keystone Mast Collection
A searchable and browsable collection of over 30,000 stereographic negatives and prints, depicting "people, places, innovation, and events from approximately 1870 through 1950." From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/mainFrame/collections/guides/kmast/ Topics: Photograph Collections Last updated Jun 11, 2006 Lawrence and Houseworth Collection
"More than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. ...The photographs depict major settlements, boom towns, placer and hydraulic mining operations, shipping and transportation routes, and such points of scenic interest throughout northern California and western Nevada as the Yosemite Valley and the Calaveras Redwoods. The collection also includes an extensive pictorial survey of mid-nineteenth-century San Francisco." Searchable and browsable. From the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lawhouhtml/lawhouabt.html Topics: Geology, Parks, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Technology Last updated Mar 2, 2005 Moscow
An annotated collection of stereographs of the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, from the early 20th century. Includes maps. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/moscow/main.html Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Jun 10, 2006 North American Indians: Stereographs From the Keystone-Mast Collection
A collection of over 20 stereographic photographs of North American Indians. Browsable by topic (people, ceremony, dwelling, lifestyle). Includes introduction. From the Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/indian/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Jun 10, 2006 On the Stump: Theodore Roosevelt in Stereographs
Explores the rising popularity of stereographic photography at the turn of the 20th century, and how Theodore Roosevelt "used publicity effectively throughout his career and attracted the attention of photographers from the start." Includes samples of stereographic photographs of Roosevelt that helped shape his political image. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/TR/tr1.html Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Jun 10, 2006 Panama Pacific International Exposition in 3D
Dozens of stereographic (three-dimensional) images first published to advertise the 1915 World's Fair in San Francisco, known formally as the Panama Pacific International Exposition. "Viewing the Stereographs" includes instructions for making or purchasing the 3-D lenses required to fully appreciate the special effects. Digitized for the San Francisco Exploratorium from a collection held by librarian Bess Moffitt. http://www.exploratorium.edu/history/PPIE-3D/ Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Photograph Collections Last updated Dec 7, 2004 Philip Brigandi
An exhibit of 11 stereographs by Philip Brigandi taken in the United States, France, and Mexico, from 1915 through 1932. Includes essay by his great-grandson. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/object_genres/photographers/brigandi/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Jun 11, 2006 Side by Side: Stereoscopy in the 20th Century
Collection of 20th-century objects that "exhibit the diversity in obtaining the goal of presenting a two-dimensional image so that it appeared as lifelike as possible." Features a downloadable catalog and images of large stereo viewers, smaller stereoscopic cameras and viewers, professional cameras, and View-Master models. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/sidebyside/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography Last updated Jun 24, 2009 Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert N. Dennis Collection
This collection of 12,000 stereoscopic photographs of three Mid-Atlantic states (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) covers the period from 1850 to 1920. "In addition to showing buildings and street scenes in cities, towns, and villages the photographs show farming, industry, transportation, homes, businesses, local celebrations, natural disasters, people, and costumes." Keyword and phrase searchable; browsable by title, name of photographer or publisher, subject, and format. From the collections of The New York Public Library. http://digital.nypl.org/stereoviews/ Topics: Agriculture, Holidays & Observances, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Dec 27, 2002 Surveyors of the American West
This New York Public Library virtual exhibit highlights America's westward expansion through the photographs and searchable notes of photographer William Henry Jackson and of civil/mining engineer Robert Brewster Stanton. Three months of Jackson's diary entries made during the summer of 1869 along with many large format images and stereoscopic views are on display. Four volumes of Stanton's notes and selected photographs taken during two expeditions surveying the canyons along the Colorado River from 1889 to 1890 are also featured. http://digital.nypl.org/surveyors/ Topics: Geography, Geology, History, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Technology, United States History Last updated Aug 24, 2004 |
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