Miscellaneous Stereographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Keystone View Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Maertz, J.F., Department Store (Milwaukee, Wis.).
label: Collection Photographer
content: Rau, William H., 1855-1920
label: Collection Creator
content: Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941
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content: Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1907
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0945, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series 6: Miscellaneous Stereographs, 1894-1907, is divided into seventeen subseries: Subseries 1: American Series, 1887; Subseries 2: C.H. Graves Publisher, 1907; Subseries 3: Griffith and Griffith, 1894; Subseries 4: Pesko Binocular Company, 1907; Subseries 5: William H. Rau Publisher, undated; Subseries 6: Domestic scenes, undated; Subseries 7: Military, undated; Subseries 8: Miscellaneous, undated; Subseries 9: Places--Asia, undated; Subseries 10: Places--Cuba, undated; Subseries 11: Places--Egypt, undated; Subseries 12: Places--France, undated; Subseries 13: Places--Germany, undated; Subseries 14: Places--Italy, undated; Subseries 15: Places--Monte Carlo, undated; Subseries 16: Places-- Palestine, undated; and Subseries 17: Places--United States, undated.

The series consists of lantern slides and stereo views from distributors that include the American Series; Griffith and Griffith; Pesko Binocular Company; William H. Rau Publisher; and the Universal Photo Art Company.

The stereographs related to domestic and military issues and geography are dated circa 1905, and copyrighted by H. C. White, and distributed by World Series. 

The stereo views produced by William H. Rau, a publisher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, show parades and other ceremonies at Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) encampments and Elks conventions held in Philadelphia.  The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War.