Picturing the World
Underwood & Underwood.
Searching for Family Relics
in Ruins of the Dear Old Home,
San Franscisco.
Washington, D.C.: 1901
Stereograph Copyright deposit, 1901
Prints & Photographs
Division
(144.4a,b, 144.5, 144.7)
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Originating in the mid-nineteenth century, stereographs were at
the height of their popularity at the turn of the twentieth century.
Large publishing companies sent photographers around the world to
document tourist attractions, famous personalities, and news events,
such as the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Before the invention
of radio and television, middle- and upper-class families collected
and viewed stereographs as entertainment using a stereoscope that
brought the images together for a 3-D effect. The Library's collection
of more than 30,000 stereographs produced by firms including Whiting
View Company, Underwood and Underwood, and the Keystone View Company
spans the 1850s through World War I.
Ruins from Nob Hill (no. 56),
Mechanic's Fountain Corner
of Bush & Market (63),
Giving Clothing, Fort Point
(59),
Pillsbury Picture Company
Silver gelatin stereograph prints
Prints & Photographs
Division (144.9a,b,c)
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