Stereoscopic viewfinder cards, comprising small stereo photographs mounted on card, [1850-1901]
Archive Reference: K/PP107/9/1-51
Entries
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K/PP107/9/1-4
Pairs of stereo photographs on orange viewfinder mounts showing scenes from Geneva, Switzerland, Paris, France, and Cairo, Egypt.
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K/PP107/9/5-9
Pairs of stereo photographs on grey, pink and liliac coloured viewfinder mounts, showing views of Rushcutter's Bay and Kurraba Point, New South Wales, Australia, and Sydney Botanical Gardens and George Street, Sydney, Australia.
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K/PP107/9/10-13
Pairs of stereo photographs on white viewfinder mounts, showing views of townships and plantation, St Croix and St Thomas, Caribbean, signed by 'Russell'.
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K/PP107/9/14-22
Pairs of stereo photographs on yellow and brown viewfinder mounts, depicting scenes of English countryside, probably Kent, including lake with ornamental gardens, substantial cottage by lake or canal, ruins of ancient building clad in ivy, small cart parked in front of cottage, village with oast houses taken from point of elevation, probably parish church tower, church with graveyard, probably Victorian neo-Gothic.
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K/PP07/9/23-29
Translucent binocular viewing cards of European panoramas including Geneva, Zurich, Istanbul, Paris and Strasbourg.
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K/PP107/9/30-35
Pairs of stereo photographs mounted on black and white viewfinder cards depicting a variety of scenes including chateau, entrance to large church or cathedral, dockyard with cranes or hoists, triumphal arch, probably the Forum, Rome, castle battlements, possibly Windsor.
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K/PP107/9/36-38
Pairs of stereo photographs mounted on white viewfinder cards showing small steam engine and infantryman with fixed bayonet and pack.
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K/PP107/9/39-40
Pairs of stereoscopic views of star-shaped geometric patterns comprising white lines on black background, probably perspective test cards for stereoscope.
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K/PP107/9/41
Pair of stereo photographs mounted on viewfinder card of the interior of a private family chapel showing tomb effigies and monumental plaques, including that of John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford (d. 1762).
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K/PP107/9/42
Pair of stereo photographs mounted on viewfinder card of Pitville House, Cheltenham, with man and woman facing camera on East Lawn.
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K/PP107/9/43
Pair of stereo photographs mounted on yellow viewfinder card showing marble statue of transcendent female captioned 'The [London] International Exhibition of 1862, 61: The Sleep of Sorrow the Dream of Joy, R[afaello] Monti', Italian sculptor. Card produced by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company.
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K/PP107/9/44
Pair of stereo photographs on yellow viewfinder cards captioned '38: Group of Africans', showing members of the Danakil tribe posing with a camel drinking from pond inside exhibition building. Possibly International Exhibition, London (1 item).
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K/PP107/9/45
Pair of stereo photographs mounted on viewfinder card showing gorge with stream, captioned 'Sächsische Schweiz photographie a Verlag von Hermann Krone, Dresden', with printed list of other photographic subjects attached to backing.
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K/PP107/9/46-51
Pairs of stereo photographs mounted on yellow viewfinder cards with series of views published by Underwood and Underwood, including Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, view vertically downwards from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, Regent Street, London, cotton plantation, Georgia, US, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian infantry at Brandfort, South Africa, view of the full moon.