Publication information: ca. 1850-1949. Forms part of both the Gernsheim and Photography Collections.The Stereograph Collection consists of images of a wide range of subjects in a variety of stereographic formats, made by numerous and varied photographers and publishers, some of which are unidentified.The vast majority of these stereographs are traditional, albumen or gelatin silver prints mounted on cards (several albumen prints mounted in cardboard stereo frames, with hand colored tissue paper backing), issued in series by publisher or photographer from the 1860s through the 1930s, many with captions or explanations handwritten or printed on mount verso. A relative few are hand colored on salted paper, color photomechanical prints, collodion or gelatin silver glass transparencies, daguerreotypes, collotypes, cyanotypes, or color diapositive "kromograms."Subjects include: tourist or documentary views of London, Paris, Rome, Wales, Scotland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Arkansas, New Mexico, New York City, Niagara Falls, Texas, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Royal Gorge, Egypt, Palestine, Jerusalem, Constantinople (now Istanbul), eastern Africa, India, China, and Japan; portraits of prominent people, including two U.S. Presidents, the Prince of Wales, two Japanese government officials, various Native American chiefs, an actress, a writer, and others; "genre views" of people engaged in scenes of everyday life, some staged and humorous; documentaries of various exhibitions and permanent displays in places such as the Louvre, the Vatican, and the Palace at Versailles; documentation of the Boer War in South Africa and of the devastation in France at the end of World War I; miscellaneous other subjects such as political rallies, animals, cemeteries, works of art (primarily sculpture), still life compositions, and "ghost" or "spirit" photographs.Of particular interest are: Warren De La Rue's stereoscopic views of the moon, in paper and glass format; a glass stereograph of Michelangelo's statue of Moses, with exceptional three dimensional effect; views of the ruins of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham after the fire in 1936; Alfred Silvester's series "The Hero's Wife"; W.I. Chadwick's "trick" photograph of two images of the same woman, entitled "My Wife and My Better Half"; and several examples of French tissue stereographs, especially the "Diables" from the famous series "Journey in Hell." Also included are: a set of "kromograms," examples of F.E. Ives' early color process using three copies of an image photographed with different colored filters and viewed through a specially designed "kromskop"; and two sets of Holmes' stereoscopic diagrams (probably wood engravings, not photographic), said to have been published in the Illustrated London News in July 1852.Photographers and publishers not already mentioned include: J. Andrieu, Edward & H.T. Anthony, George Barker, Charles Bierstadt, Samuel Bourne, James Cremer, William Crookes & John Spiller, William England, Roger Fenton, Claude-Marie Ferrier & Charles Soulier, Francis Frith, Frank M. Good, Carlton H. Graves, George W. Griffith, Griffith & Griffith, J. Grillet, William E. James (who produced views of the Holy Land for sale to Sunday Schools in America), composer Paul van Katwijk, nature photographers Richard and Cherry Kearton, B.L. Singley's Keystone View Co., B.W. Kilburn, Kilburn Brothers, Horatio Nelson King, E. Lamy, M. Léon & J. Lévy, Loescher & Petsch, London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co., Negretti & Zambra, Timothy O'Sullivan, H. Petschler & Co., "Phiz" (pseud. of Hablot Knight Browne), J. Quéval, William H. Rau, Jules Richard, Charles Piazzi Smyth, John P. Soule, Underwood & Underwood, H.C. White, Ben Wittick, and many, many others.Daguerreotype artists represented are: Richard Beard, Antoine Claudet, William Keith, William E. Kilburn, J.E. Mayall, and T.R. Williams.Contact the Department of Photography & Film for further information.This collection has been assembled from various acquisitions, and growth is expected. Approximately 20 percent of the items are from the Gernsheim Collection, purchased in 1964.1.1\a Purchase 1958 PhotographsAn unpublished finding aid with item-level control is available in the repository.Title of the collection devised by curator.1.2\a Cataloged 20000216 MJF PhotographsBad Boy, Chippewa Chief Photographs 1860-1880.Big Dog, Chippewa Chief Photographs 1860-1880.Buffalo, Chippewa Chief Photographs 1860-1880.Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910 Photographs.Medicine Bottle Photographs 1860-1880.Old Bets, 1788-1873 Photographs.Other Day Photographs 1860-1880.Sioux Dandy Photographs 1860-1880.Glanville, Mrs. Photographs 1850-1860.Gray, John A'Court Photographs 1850-1860.Hamilton, William, 1777-1859 Photographs.Harvey, Mrs., fl. 1857 Photographs.Heinrich, Max Photographs 1900-1910.Katwijk, Paul van, 1885-1974 Photographs.Katwijk, Viola Edna Beck van, 1894- Photographs.Keith, Alexander, 1791-1880 Photographs.Knatchbull, Wyndham, 1786-1868 Photographs.Lang, Marshall, Rev. Photographs 1850-1860.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Photographs.McKinley, William, 1843-1901 Photographs.Murray, Elizabeth Leigh, d. 1892 Photographs.Oyama, Iwao, 1842-1916 Photographs.Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803-1865 Photographs.Prichard, Arthur, Dr. Photographs 1890-1900.Prichard, Arthur, Mrs. Photographs 1890-1900.Spencer, Harriet Glanville Photographs 1850-1860.Spencer, Charles Vere, Rev. Photographs 1850-1860.Terauchi, Masatake, 1852-1919 Photographs.Agriculture 19th century.Indians of North America Kings and rulers.Musical instruments 19th century.Railroads United States 19th century.Relations between the sexes. lctgmWar destruction & pillage. lctgmCentral Park (New York, N.Y.) 19th century Photographs.Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) 19th century Photographs.Transvaal (South Africa) History War of 1880-1881 Military personnel. lctgmEditors, Translators, and other contributors:Andrieu, J., 1816-after 1876.Barker, George, 1844-1894.Beard, Richard, 1802-1885.Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903.Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912.Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Chadwick, W. I. (William Isaac)Claudet, A. (Antoine), 1797-1867.Cremer, James, 1821-1893.Crookes, William, 1832-1919.De La Rue, Warren, 1815-1889.England, William, 1816-1896.Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869.Ferrier, Claude Marie, 1811-1889.Frith, Francis, 1822-1898.Good, F. M. (Frank Mason)Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), -1943.Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.Ives, Frederic Eugene, 1856-1937.James, W. E. (William Ewart)Katwijk, Paul van, 1885-1974.Kearton, Cherry, 1871-1940.Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928.Keith, William, 1838-1911.Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909.King, H. N. (Horatio Nelson), 1830-1905.Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin), 1810-1901.O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882.Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920.Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd)Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900.Soule, John P., 1827-1904.Spiller, John, 1833-1921.Williams, T. R. (Thomas Richard), 1825-1871.Wittick, George Benjamin.Ferrier, pere, fils et Soulier.London Stereoscopic Company.View this collection description in WorldCat.org: