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Stereographs of Switzerland

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Description: A set of 101 travel photographs (stereograph format) of Switzerland, published by Underwood & Underwood.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1897-1901.
Call number: photST Underwood
Creator: Underwood & Underwood(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Helen B. Bradley, February 1986.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Underwood & Underwood stereograph sets

Visual Materials

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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Stereograph collection

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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.

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Stereo views of the world

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Over 200 photographs (stereograph format) of scenes and people in numerous countries. Most are published by Underwood & Underwood, with some by Keystone View Company. Stereographs are arranged alphabetically by country. Locations: Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Palestine, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Yugoslavia, United States, and Central and South America.

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Keystone View Company Tour of the World stereographs

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Approximately 500 stereograph photographs of various places and people around the world, published by Keystone View Company. The photographs have captions and date from the 1900s to 1920s. Also included is an accompanying index book: A trip around the world through the telebinocular, edited by Burton Holmes and published by Keystone View Company. Locations of the stereographs include: United States; South America; Asia; Russia; Europe; Philippines; Palestine; Egypt; and others.

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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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Switzerland and northern Italy

Rare Books

Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2531 Switzerland. [Map, London], J. Walker. [18--]. 1 sheet. [see cabinet]."Untitled map made after 1815, when three new cantons were added to Switzerland: Valais, Neuchatel, and Geneva. These three are not shown on this half of the map, but are listed with the other cantons in the informational box in the upper right corner. End date given is the year Burton died. May be the eastern half of "Map of the Republic of Switzerland, describing the twenty-two cantons : including those of Le Valais, Geneva and Neuchatel, exhibiting the various objects interesting to the traveller compiled from the surveys of Weiss, Kellar &c. London. Published by J. A. Wyld, Geographer to Her Majesty, Charing Cross East." MS notes: Burton (map cabinet) Switzerland 2531. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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