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Title proper
Stereoscopic views boxset
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- Graphic material
- Object
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2018.09.02.012
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[ca.1891] (Creation)
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Physical description
1 piece of photographic viewing equipment : stereoscope ; 45 photographic images : 45 card stereographs ; 17 x 17 x 35 cm
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Scope and content
This item is a wooden stereoscopic box set with hand held viewer. Viewer is able to fold on top of itself and is made of wood and leather. Box has 45 stereoscopic slides made from various publishing studios such as Kilburn and Underwood & Underwood. This box contains two dividers to keep stereocards stored in. Interior lid of box has inscription "Benny N Roadhouse, Garwick, July 1891." This object was used to view two identical images, or stereographs, as one three-dimensional photograph.
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Physical condition
Great condition and fully functioning
Immediate source of acquisition
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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- English
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Open. Records are available for consultation without restriction