Stereo Photographers Stereographs
name: label: Creator
content: Kraus, Jeffrey (dealer)
label: Creator
content: Underwood & Underwood
label: Creator
content: Strohmeyer & Wyman
label: Creator
content: Raven Books
label: Names
content: Ponting, Herbert George, 1870-1935
label: Photographer
content: Strohmeyer, H. A.
label: Names
content: Underwood, Bert, 1862-1943
place: label: Place
content: Aso-san volcano (Japan) (OPPS Neg. No. 92-14160)
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographers -- 1890-1920
label: Topic
content: Stereoscopy -- 1890-1910
label: Topic
content: Volcanoes -- Japan
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The stereographs were purchased from a dealer, Jeffrey Kraus, who obtained them from unidentified standard sources and collectors. They were acquired because of their relationship to images in the Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kraus, Jeffrey (dealer)
label: Creator
content: Underwood & Underwood
label: Creator
content: Strohmeyer & Wyman
label: Creator
content: Raven Books
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content: Stereo Photographers Stereographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Four stereographs of stereo photographers at work.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Stereographs utilize a pair of photographic images from negatives taken with camera lenses separated laterally by a few inches, to approximate the distance between a human's eyes. The resulting images, when viewed separately but simultaneously--one image for each eye--provide the illusion of normal depth perception or three-dimensional viewing. Stereographs were made as early as the 1840s, but did not achieve widespread popularity until the 1860s, when several companies began to mass-produce them. After a period of flagging interest, another wave of popularity occurred when Underwood & Underwood began publishing "educational," travel-oriented images in 1895. The intrepid, peripatetic photographers who took the stereo views occasionally were themselves of interest to viewers. See standard references on the photographers and companies represented by these stereographs, such as William Culp Darrah, The World of Stereographs, etc.; also see the finding aid for the Archives Center's Underwood & Underwood Glass Stereograph Collection.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1893-1904
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchased from a dealer, Jeffrey Kraus, who obtained them from unidentified standard sources or collectors.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0414
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Stereographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection was processed by David E. Haberstich, curator, 1991.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- 1890-1910
label: Genre/Form
content: Stereographs -- 1890-1910
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Four stereographs showing stereo photographers at work: (1) "Taking a View for You & U," copyright 1893 by J. F. Jarvis, Washington, D.C. (little girl holding field camera); (2) uncaptioned view of man standing on pier amid ruins, published by Underwood & Underwood, undated, identified as Bert Underwood in pencil on mount; (3) "Our well known Stereoscopic Photographer, H. A. Strohmeyer--Blanket Court-martialed by his Army friends," copyright 1898 by Strohmeyer & Wyman; and (4) an Underwood stereo photographer, apparently Herbert G. Ponting, at crater of Aso-san volcano, Japan, copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood.