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Information requests
10030.01 Process and product > Improving content on photographic techniques
We are seeking to expand the themes covering photographic techniques and processes. These sections will include:
- Invention of the process
- Any related patents
- Trade literature
- Contemporary advertisements and announcements of the innovation
- A description of the process and its variants
- Historical examples and details of where examples can be located in public collections
- Contemporary examples by photographers using the exact process.
Conservation will not initially be included but may be in the future if required. |
Introduction
10030.02 Process and product > Different types of stereo images
          
The overwhelming majority of Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards consist of two albumen prints or gelatin silver prints pasted onto card but there are other formats. From soon after photography was discovered there were stereo daguerreotypes including some in Masher cases, and rarer stereo salt prints, ambrotypes, tintypes and cyanotypes.
10030.03 Process and product > Stereo daguerreotypes
                                             
10030.04 Process and product > Stereo ambrotypes
10030.05 Process and product > Stereo tintypes
10030.06 Process and product > Stereo cyanotypes
Themes
10030.07 Process and product > Painted stereoviews
    
10030.08 Process and product > Stereocard series on the American Civil War
During and after the American Civil War (1861-1865) there was a commercial opportunity for marketing series of stereoviews of the personalities, battlefields, equipment and camp life. The study of these is complex as the photographer is frequently not recorded, the studio or studio owner claimed rights over the photographs they had financed or purchased without giving credit to the photographer, publishers obtained photographs from multiple sources, studios went out of business, negatives were sold from one studio to another, the captions and attributions on occasion were not accurate.
Photographic incidents of the War
     
Includes photographs by Alexander Gardner
The War for the Union
        
Includes photographs by George N. Barnard, Thomas C. Roche and others by The War Photograph & Exhibition Company (Hartford), and Taylor & Huntington (Hartford).
War Views
         
War Views - Army of the Potomac
   
Includes photographs by Thomas C. Roche.
Home Views
 
American Scenery
 
10030.09 Process and product > Stereoviews: Transportation
       
Manufacture of stereoviews
10030.10 Process and product > Interior of an English Stereographic Manufactory
  
10030.11 Process and product > H.C. White Manfacturing Plant for Stereoscopes and StereoViews - North Bennington, Vermont, USA
                           
10030.12 Process and product > Packaging for stereoviews
    
Stereocards marketing and salesrooms
10030.13 Process and product > Marketing stereocards
   
10030.14 Process and product > Salesrooms for stereoviews
        
Stereocard storage for home and education
10030.15 Process and product > Stereoview libraries for the armchair traveler
    
Themes
10030.16 Process and product > Elias A. Bonine: Stereocards: Florida Series
About this photographer | Photographs by this photographer
    
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General reading
American Stereoscopic Company (Philadelphia), 1861, Catalogue of Langenheim's New and Superior Style of Colored Photographic Magic Lantern Pictures - Also a Catalogue of Langenheim's Stereoscopic Pictures on Glass and Paper, and Microscopic Photographs of a Superior Quality, (E. Ketterlinus, printer) [Δ]
Darrah, William Culp, 1964, Stereo Views: A History of Stereographs in America and Their Collection, (Gettysburg, PA: Times and News Publishing Co.) [Δ]
Darrah, William Culp, 1977, The World of Stereographs, (Gettysburg, Pa.: William C. Darrah) [Δ]
Earle, Edward W. (ed.), 1979, Points of View: The Stereograph in America - Cultural History, (Rochester, NY: The Visual Studies Workshop Press in collaboration with the Gallery Association of New York Stat) [Δ]
Fanelli, G., 2001, L’anima dei luoghi. La Toscana nella fotografia stereoscopica, (Firenze: Mandragora) [Δ]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1859, June, ‘The Stereoscope and the Stereograph‘, Atlantic Monthly, vol.3, pp.738-48 [Δ]
Jenkins, Harold F., 1957, Two Points of View: The History of the Parlor Stereoscope, (Elmira, NY: World in Color Productions) [Δ]
Jones, John, 1976, Wonders of Stereoscope, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) [Δ]
Mabie, Roy W., 1942, The Stereoscope and Stereograph, (New York: Privately printed) [Δ]
Pellerin, D., 1995, La Photographie Stéréoscopique Sous Le Second Empire, (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale De France) [Δ]
Pellerin, Denis; May, Brian & Fleming, Paula, 2013, Diableries: Stereoscopic adventures in Hell, (The London Stereoscopic Company) [Δ]
Smith, Lyndsay, 1989, ‘The Elusive Depth of Field: Stereoscopy and the Pre-Raphaelites‘, in Pointon, Marcia (ed.), Pre-Raphaelites Re-Viewed, pp.84-99 [Δ]
Treadwell, T.K. & Darrah, William C., 1984 (ca), Stereographers of the World. Vol. 1: Foreign; vol. 2: United States [Δ]
Waldsmith, John S, 2002, Stereo Views: An Illustrated History and Price Guide, (Iola, WI: Gazelle) [Δ]
Zotti, Arlo Alberto Minici, 2003, Il Fascino Discreto della Stereoscopia: Venezia e altre suggestive immagini in 3D - Subtle Charm of Stereoscopy: Venice and other impressive views, (Padova: Grafiche Turato) [Introduction by Italo Zannier] [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
David Brewster
Brewster, David, 1856, The Stereoscope: Its History, Theory, and Construction, (London: John Murray) [Δ]
Brewster, Sir David, 1870, The Stereoscope: Its History, Theory and Construction, (London: John Camden Hotton) [Δ]
Brewster, Sir David, 1971, The Stereoscope: Its History, Theory and Construction. Facsimile edition, (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Morgan & Morgan) [Reprint] [Δ]
Antoine Claudet
Claudet, Antoine Franc¸ois Jean, 1853, Du ste´re´oscope et de ses applications a` la photographie, par A. Claudet ... et derniers perfectionnements apporte´s au Dauerre´otype, par F. Colas., (Paris) [Δ]
Joseph Ellis Jr.
Ellis Jr., Joseph, 1856, Progress of Photography — Collodion, the Stereoscope: A Lecture by Joseph Ellis, (London: Bell & Daldy) [Δ]
Claude-Marie Ferrier
Cameron, John B. & Schimmelman, Janice G., 2012, The Early Paper Stereoviews of Claude-Marie Ferrier, 1852-1858, (The Collodion Press - Privately printed - Blurb / 3400181) [Δ]
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1861, July, ‘Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture; With a Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic‘, Atlantic Monthly, pp.13-29 [Δ]
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Smyth, C. Piazzi, 1858, Teneriffe - An Astronomer's Experiment, (Lowell Reeve) [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
David Brewster (1781-1868) • John Benjamin Dancer (1812-1887) • Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811-1889) • Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) • Frederick Langenheim (1809-1879) • W. & F. Langenheim • William Langenheim (1807-1874) • Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) | Home > Techniques > Process and product > Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards
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Photographer
Themes
 | Scientific: Astronomy: Donati's Comet - Stereocard, Tissue
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| | Stereo daguerreotype of French soldier
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| | Stereoview series: American Scenery
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| | Stereoview series: HomeViews
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| | Stereoview series: Photographic incidents of the War
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| | Stereoview series: The War for the Union
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| | Stereoview series: War Views
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| | Stereoview series: War Views - Army of the Potomac
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Techniques
| Daguerreotypes: Stereo
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|  | Stereoviews: Cameras
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|  | Stereoviews: Colour
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| | Stereoviews: Lists of views
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| | Stereoviews: Manufacture
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| | Stereoviews: Packaging
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| | Stereoviews: Painted
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| | Stereoviews: Sales
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|  | Stereoviews: Stereoscopes: Becker style
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|  | Stereoviews: Stereoscopes: Book and magazine illustrations
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|  | Stereoviews: Stereoscopes: Brewster style
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|  | Stereoviews: Stereoscopes: Desktop
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|  | Stereoviews: Stereoscopes: Holmes-Bates Style
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|  | Stereoviews: Stereoscopes: Lewis Patent
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|  | Stereoviews: Stereoscopes: Mascher
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|  | Stereoviews: Storage boxes
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|  | Stereoviews: Storage cabinets
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|  | Stereoviews: Storage racks
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|  | Stereoviews: Storage sets
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Diablerie
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| | Stereoviews: Themes: Erotica
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Ethnic
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Events
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| | Stereoviews: Themes: Military
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Nature
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Photographic studios
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Photographic vans, wagons and cars
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Photographica
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Portrait: Celebrities
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Post-mortem
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Still life
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|  | Stereoviews: Themes: Strange
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| | Stereoviews: Themes: Transportation
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| | Stereoviews: Tissue views
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Still thinking about these...
| H.C. White Manfacturing Plant for Stereoscopes and StereoViews - North Bennington, Vermont, USA
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|  | Meiji-era engraved stereocard backs
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| | Stereocard, tissue, Black mount Diablerie - Devil tissue view - 30 Theatre de Satan
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|  | Stereocard, tissue, White mount Diablerie - Devil tissue view - 64 Entrée de L’Enfer
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|  | The Snow Pine - A Winter Scene in Old Rural Japan
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Refreshed: 21 May 2013, 15:34 |
