Archives Center Stereograph Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Underwood & Underwood
label: Creator
content: Keystone View Company
label: Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
label: Creator
content: Owen, Mary June
label: Creator
content: Donnald, Morrill
label: Creator
content: Jarvis
place: label: Place
content: Africa -- 1900-1910
label: Place
content: Amalfi (Italy)
label: Place
content: Italy
label: Place
content: Mombasa (Africa)
topic: label: Topic
content: Convents
label: Topic
content: Elephants -- Africa -- Mombasa
label: Topic
content: Ivory industry
label: Topic
content: Seacoasts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Division of Community Life, National Museum of American History, through David Shayt, 1992; Mr. Morrill Donnald, 1992; Susan Strange, January 11, 1999, and Ms. Mary June Owen, August 8, 2000 and State of Alabama Department of Archives and History, through Linda L. Overman, date unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Underwood & Underwood
label: Creator
content: Keystone View Company
label: Creator
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
label: Creator
content: Owen, Mary June
label: Creator
content: Donnald, Morrill
label: Creator
content: Jarvis
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection of miscellaneous stereographs transferred from other Smithsonian units and other sources.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Keystone View Co. was one of the leading publishers of stereoscopic views at the turn of the century.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 24 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1910
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0495
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Stereographs
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, 1993.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1900-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Stereographs -- 1900-1910
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Collection established to consolidate miscellaneous stereographs transferred from other Smithsonian units and other sources. Currently the group contains 25 cards.

First item: A view of "Ivory Ready to Ship, Mombasa, Africa." Depicts workers with elephant tusks loaded on trucks. At left, storage building of an American firm which handles hundreds of tons of ivory each year."

Second group: 23 stereographs, three of which are Underwood & Underwood views; the remainder are miscellaneous lithoprint (photomechanical) images, both color and black-and-white, some in poor condition.

Third acquisition: 1 albumen stereograph by Underwood & Underwood, "Amalfi, Italy--from the Capuchin Convent--"I beheld the scene and stood as one amazed"--." c1900. (Woman in hat with veil looking down on the coast.) Original negative in Coll. 143, #143.VDF 12808. Photographer apparently was Jarvis, but the dates on the glass plates are shown as 1907.

Fourth acquisition: 3 albumen stereographs by M.H. Zahner and 10 albumen stereographs by George W. Griffith.