Notes from the Museums: Parlor Pastimes
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Notes from the Museums: Parlor Pastimes
One of the parlor entertainments of the mid to late eighteen hundreds was that of stereoscope viewing. The ‘viewer’ had two lenses with a sort of hood around them to keep light out. It had a hand grip on the bottom and a sliding, adjustable rack to hold a double photograph. That is, it had two almost identical images…each with a slightly different angle… set side by side. The photographs took on a 3D quality when used in the viewer. The stereosc…
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