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Polyorama stereoscopic viewer (unknown)
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2018.09.02.128
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1 piece of photographic viewing equipment : stereoscope ; 1 photographic image ; glass plate stereograph ; 12 x 15 x 13 cm
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This item is a handheld stereoscope made of wood and plastic. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the card holder, next binocular like lenses would be adjusted with a knob to fit the user's vision. This merges the two images together mimic a three-dimensional effect. A flap hood on the top of viewer is designed to allow light to illuminate stereograph. The hood comes with a mirror. Object comes with one glass plate stereograph of men and women in Victorian clothing sightseeing at a waterfall edge.
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Good condition with some cracks in the frame.
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Collected by the late Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass and donated to the Ryerson University Library and Archives by Gail Bass in 2018.
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- French
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Jenkins, F. Harold. (1973) Two Points of View. Uniontown, Pennsylvania: E.G. Warman Publishing Inc.