Domestic Life Stereograph and Photograph Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Centennial Photographic Co.
label: Creator
content: Roth, Rodris
label: Creator
content: Myers, Susan H.
label: Names
content: Appalachian Exposition. (Knoxville, Tennessee: 1911)
label: Names
content: California-Pacific International Exposition (San Diego, California: 1935-1936)
label: Names
content: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris
label: Names
content: International Exhibition of 1862 (London, England)
label: Names
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Cultural History
label: Names
content: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
place: label: Place
content: Sturbridge (Mass.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Exhibitions -- Missouri
label: Topic
content: World's fairs
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Susan Myers.
creator: label: Creator
content: Centennial Photographic Co.
label: Creator
content: Roth, Rodris
label: Creator
content: Myers, Susan H.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Domestic Life Stereograph and Photograph Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Hundreds of stereographs and other photographic imagery, especially a large number of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia; other subjects include: the World's Columbian Exhibition (1893); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Great Sanitary Fair; a large number on Massachusetts, including a set of images from Old Sturbridge; buildings and scenery; miscellaneous other subjects.
bioghist: label: Historical
content: Stereographs were employed to document and popularize the great world's 
fairs of the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century in the United States and Europe.  The Centennial Photographic Company, in particular, was formed essentially to disseminate information about the 1876 fair and to profit from its "educational" products.  More generally, the three-dimensional photographic medium was considered an ideal way to provide views of regional attractions in the United States.  This collection contains both subjects.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1862-1920
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Photographs collected in the Division of Domestic Life  (now Division of Cultural and Community Life)by curators Rodris Roth and Susan Myers. Ms. Myers donated some of the stereographs from her personal collection. The stereographs of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition were collected in connection with the production of the Smithsonian re-creation of the exhibition in the Arts and Industries Building, "1976." Other donors are represented in the collection. Transferred to the Archives Center in 2000 by the Division of Social History, through Rodris Roth, Domestic Life Collections (now Division of Cultural and Community Life).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0725
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Stereographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into one series. Arranged geographically and topically.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, archivist, 2004.

Collection digitized by Noah Stewart, digital imaging technician, 2018.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Collection scanned in 2018.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Stereographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection is composed largely of photographs related to world's fairs, especially the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, particularly in the form of stereographs.  Other photographs document Williamsburg, Old Sturbridge, Mass., and other locations.