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Stereograph collection

Description: A collection of over 1,000 stereograph photographs, compiled by the Huntington Library from various sources. The photographs are chiefly by American photographers or publishing companies, and feature a variety of subjects, mostly in the United States. Photographers or publishers include: E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., Philip Brigandi, William H. Fletcher, William M. Godfrey, Hayward & Muzzall, Thomas Houseworth & Co., Benjamin West Kilburn, T. G. Norton, Joseph C. Parker, Henry T. Payne, Payne, Stanton & Co., Edward W. Pierce, M. Reider, A. B. Post, F. H. Rogers & Co., O. E. Tyler, Underwood & Underwood, A. C. Varela, and many others. Stereographs by Carleton Watkins are in a separate collection: photST Watkins.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1850s-1910s.
Call number: photST
Provenance: Provenance is mostly unknown; items came from various sources. When known, provenance information is written on the stereograph verso. In library as of 2024.

Stereographs of Switzerland

Visual Materials

A set of 101 travel photographs (stereograph format) of Switzerland, published by Underwood & Underwood.

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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.

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Carleton E. Watkins Stereograph Collection

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This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721). Numbered captions with printed titles appear on many of the mounts; unnumbered mounts are numbered consecutively within the series beginning at 1. Item titles chiefly transcribed from printed titles in stereograph margin; cataloger devised titles are enclosed in square brackets.

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Underwood & Underwood stereograph sets

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Over 1,500 stereograph photographs published by Underwood & Underwood in box sets featuring photographs of various countries. There are 15 sets, all labeled with the name of the country and "through the stereoscope." Each set contains approximately 100 to 200 images with captions, showing landmarks, cities, architecture, scenery, people, etc. The sets are: Austria, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Russia, South African War, Spain, and Switzerland. There are also four accompanying index books, for China, Egypt, Italy, and Switzerland, three of which have color illustrated bookplates for Howard Edwards Huntington and Leslie Green Huntington.

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Stereographs

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A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).

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Stereographs (Items 1-141)

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The 141 stereographs in this series are arranged in 1 box according to photographer: E. J. Hayward (Items 1-51) Hayward & Muzzall: Views of Santa Barbara & Vicinity (Items 52-135) Miscellaneous photographers and scenes (Items 136-141) Additional credited photographers represented in this series include Fay Hammond (Item 141); Rea (Item 137); Tuttle (Item 138); and Watkins (Item 139, "Indian Camp" from Watkins' Pacific Coast series).

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