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Luray Caverns stereoscopic photographs

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Description: The fifteen stereoscopic photographs consist of images capturing William J. Rhees, his son William H. Rhees, and a party from the Smithsonian traveling to the Luray Caverns in Virgina. The team photographed the Heaton & Adams Hotel, the Shenendoah River, the stagecoach ride, interior views of the cavern, and New Market, Virginia. A few of the photograph cards are stamped William H. Rhees.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1880.
Call number: photPF 3550-3569
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Smithsonian Institution and New England stereoscopic views

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The photographs attributed to the Smithsonian Institute depict images from President Garfield's Inaguaration and various collection items; a coral reef specimen, Joseph Henry (1797-1878) studio and bedroom, and a Syrian sarcophagus (published and photographed by Bell & Bro.). Other stereoscopic cards include views of Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, a three-story stone building in New England, and the Wisconsin meteorite. Handwritten annotations "Rhees 1945" may refer to the William Jones Rhees papers (mssRH).

photPF 3490-3512

Wishing Well - Sacred Seven Star Cavern

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Image of the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing well and pool, Forbidden Palace in background. Printed in the lower corner of the card: Wishing Well - Sacred Seven Star Cavern / Built by / Professor Henry K. Liu / Chinatown on Broadway / Los Angeles.

mssHong family papers addenda (1)

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Stereoscopic photographs

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A complete anatomical ophthalmology teaching kit, The Anatomy of the Human Eye: As Illustrated by Enlarged Stereoscope Photographs, created by Oxford professor Arthur Thomson. The kit includes 67 stereoscopic photographs of human eye anatomy with accompanying printed text, an index to the photographs, and the original clamshell box.

photCL 752

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Smithsonian excursion to Potomac River shell middens

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The eight stereoscopic photographs capture the Potomac river, various watercrafts and men approaching the shoreline, and the nearby shell middens referred to in the annotations as shell-heaps. The photographs may have been transferred from the William Jones Rhees papers.

photPF 3570-3577

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The anatomy of the human eye as illustrated by enlarged stereoscope photographs

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photCL 752

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Stereographic photographs of the moon and two observatories

Manuscripts

A group of 12 stereoscopic photographs of the moon, and two stereoscopic photographs of observatories. The stereographs are on card mounts containing two images, which, when viewed through a stereoscope, produce a 3D image. The stereographs were produced by various photographers and publishers, including: "Anthony's Stereoscopic Views," made by E. & H. T. Anthony and Co.; John P. Soule; Joseph Ward; C. Bierstadt (from negatives taken by Prof. H. Draper); Bierstadt Bros. (from negatives by L. M. Rutherford. Taken 1864.); Joseph L. Bates; and H. C. Smith. There is an image of an observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and another showing two men with telescopes outside an observatory in Northfield, Minnesota.

mssHM 84497

Luray Caverns stereoscopic photographs

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