Abstract The California Stereograph Collection consists of seventy-eight cards published by the Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, the Union View Company, and other small publishing houses. Stereograph views were produced in the millions by photographers all over the world. Stereographs provided a very popular entertainment medium predating television and film. The collection represented here documents the natural landscape of California, San Francisco, and Yosemite. The images...

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The Keystone View Company Stereocard Collection contains more than 600 stereocards published by the Keystone View Company. The Stereocards were used for educational purposes as well as for entertainment. The Keystone View Company had branches throughout the country and Europe with staff photographers taking photographs throughout the world.

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The Keystone View CompanyWorld War Through the Stereoscope Collection consists of 300 stereograph cards featuring scenes from WWI, a stereoscope for viewing the cards, and a 1928 copy of the book "The World War Through the Telebinocular."

Abstract The Panama Stereocard collection consists of thirty-six cards published by Underwood and Underwood featuring scenes in the Republic of Panama from the first decade of the 20th century. Stereograph views were a very popular entertainment medium predating television and film. Stereograph views were produced in the millions by photographers all over the world. The set contains photographs of citizens on water ways, rural scenes in villages, the daily lives and work of the indigenous people,...