STEREOGRAPHIC PHOTOS
Illustrate Your Genealogy with Images from Long Ago
Illustrate Your Genealogy with Images from Long Ago
Stereoscope viewers and photos made for them were the Victorian version of “You Tube.” Cards came singly or in sets with titles that ranged from “Views of Argentina,” to “The Burglar Stole A Kiss.”
Using the device, you could visit cities and countries all over the world or watch an amusingly risqué story unfold in 3-D, one card at a time. Today these images can add interest to your genealogical photo collection. For example, you can find out what the port of Hamburg looked like the year your ancestor left Germany, and also what Castle Garden looked like when he arrived here in the U.S.
Using the device, you could visit cities and countries all over the world or watch an amusingly risqué story unfold in 3-D, one card at a time. Today these images can add interest to your genealogical photo collection. For example, you can find out what the port of Hamburg looked like the year your ancestor left Germany, and also what Castle Garden looked like when he arrived here in the U.S.
A Few of the Best Online Stereograph Resources:
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/stereo/ will give you over 9,000 digitized stereographic pictures.
Wikipedia
Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope to read about the device itself. Then go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stereo_cards to explore all the categories and sub-categories of stereo cards available on the internet.
Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope to read about the device itself. Then go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stereo_cards to explore all the categories and sub-categories of stereo cards available on the internet.
St. Louis, Missouri
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stereo_cards_of_St._Louis contains “Stereoscopic views of St. Louis, Missouri.”
University of Louisville
“Stereographic Views of Louisville and Beyond, 1850s to 1930” is at http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/stereograph.
Archives of California: UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf3489n9sv;developer=local;style=oac4;doc.view=items will take you to “Views of California and the West, ca. 1867-1903.”
University of Washington Stereo Card Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/stereoweb/ will take you to old views of Washington state.
New York Public Library
The NYPL Digital Collection is available at http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=stereographs.
The NYPL Digital Collection is available at http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=stereographs.
RESEARCH TIP: We genealogists are so grateful to discover names written on the back of old group photos; yet, we don’t always label our own photographs so that future generations will be able to identify the people in them! Don't short-change your descendants—label your photographs, whether they are the old hard copy paper variety, or digitized jpgs in a computer file.
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