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Stereograph File filing series (Library of Congress)
- Title: Stereograph File filing series (Library of Congress)
- Other Title: Stereo Collection (Library of Congress)
- Related Names:
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 , photographer
Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) , photographer
American Stereoscopic Company , photographer
H.C. White Co , photographer
International Stereograph Co. , photographer
Keystone View Company , photographer
Strohmeyer & Wyman , photographer
Underwood & Underwood , photographer - Date Created/Published: 1860-1945, bulk 1870-1920.
- Medium: ca. 36,000 photographic prints on stereo cards : stereographs ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
- Summary: The STEREO FOREIGN GEOG series has ca. 22,000 views of places, scenes, structures, and people outside of the United States and spanning the entire globe. Countries particularly well represented include Canada, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Russia, and Switzerland. The STEREO US GEOG series has ca. 9,000 views of places, scenes, structures, and people in the United States. Heavily represented states include California, Colorado, New York, and Pennsylvania. The file also has significant documentation for the cities of Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The STEREO SUBJ series has 3,500 documentary and topical stereographs, including sentimental and staged scenes. Categories with many stereographs are African Americans, animals, children, hunting, Indians of North America, industry, ships (including liners and naval vessels), and sports. The STEREO BIOG series has about 500 portraits and other pictures relating to the lives, careers, and families of distinguished or notable persons, including homes and birthplaces. People represented in numerous stereographs include William Jennings Bryan, Admiral George Dewey, Alton Parker, Cecil Rhodes, and Booker T. Washington. The STEREO PRES series has ca. 1,500 portraits and other pictures relating to the lives, careers, and families of U.S. presidents including home and birthplaces. The presidencies of Warren G. Harding, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt are most heavily represented, but stereographs related to Thomas Jefferson through Harry S Truman are available.
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- Rights Advisory:
Publication rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)
- Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: STEREO) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized in five filing series with the call number prefixes STEREO FOREIGN GEOG, STEREO US GEOG, STEREO SUBJ, STEREO BIOG, and STEREO PRES. Arrangement: Each series in this browsing file in the Prints & Photographs Division Reading Room is arranged alphabetically. The biographical series are filed by surnames; geographical series are filed by name of country and then by city; the subject series is filed by topics.
- Publishers and photographers heavily represented in the file include: American Stereoscopic Company; H.C. White Co.; Ingersoll View Company; International Stereograph Co.; Keystone View Company; William H. Rau; B.L. Singley; Stereo Travel Co.; Strohmeyer & Wyman; Underwood & Underwood; and Universal Photo Art Co.
- The photographic media are mostly gelatin silver prints, although some are albumen prints. There are also a few colored photomechanical prints.
- The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division began assembling this browsing file in the 1950s(?) to provide direct visual access to these card-mounted images. Few new images have been added since 1990.
- The Biographical, Geographical, and Subject card indexes list images for which copy negatives have been made.
- Digitized images of more than 3,000 items in the file and their associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, by searching using the call number "STEREO" http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
- Copyright deposit (most images), gift, exchange, and purchase; various sources; 1800s to present.
- Many additional stereographs are available in a browsing file of approximately 16,000 stereographs cataloged as published sets of related images in LOTs.
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- Rights Advisory: Publication rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: STEREO) [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 36,000 photographic prints on stereo cards : stereographs ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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- Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: STEREO) [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 36,000 photographic prints on stereo cards : stereographs ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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