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Title:
Stereograph Cards
Collection Home:
http://memory.loc.gov/pp/stereohtml/stereoabt.html External Link
Items:
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Description:
Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The Prints & Photographs Division's holdings include images produced from the 1850s to the 1940s, with the bulk of the collection dating between 1870 and 1920. The online images feature cities and towns around the world, expeditions and expositions, industries, disasters, and portraits of Native Americans, presidents, and celebrities.;The online Stereograph Cards category is limited to individual stereographs that have been cataloged online, generally because they have associated copy negatives, transparencies, or digital files. In some cases the digital image shows the full stereo, in other cases, only half of the stereo displays, depending upon how the image was copied.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Expeditions and surveys.
Travel.
Disasters.
Exhibitions.
Fairs.
Industry.
Presidents.
Wars.
Military facilities.
Mining.
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.).
Spanish-American War, 1898.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subjects:
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer.
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.
Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer.
Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer.
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer.
Native Americans
Civil War
Government
General Resources
American Culture
GEM Subjects:
Arts
Photography
Social Studies
United States history
Geographic Coverage:
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Time Period:
1850-1899
1900-1929
1930-1949
Objects Represented:
Photographs / slides / negatives
Stereographs
Landscape photographs
Cityscape photographs
Format:
image/jpeg
image/tiff
Language:
eng
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Access Rights:
Access is permitted; subject to Prints & Photographs Division policy on serving originals.
Copyright & IP rights:
There are no known restrictions on the use of stereographs.
Size:
7318
Frequency of additions:
Irregularly
Alternative Access:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=stereo&metadataPrefix=oai_dc;http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=stereo&metadataPrefix=mods External Link
Notes:
Set characteristics for stereo: Source records are MARC (from LC catalog); MODS or oai_dc records are dynamically generated using generic transformation when harvested. Many records have only inventory-level description, without subject headings. Titles and notes are transcribed from the cards. DCCDaccrualPolicy: Active. DCCDAccrualPeriodicity: Completely irregular.
type:
collection
Alternative Title:
HTML source title: About the Stereograph Cards;ListSets setName: Stereographic Cards;ListSets title: Records for Digitized Stereograph Cards from LC's Prints & Photographs Division
Hosting Institution:
Library of Congress

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