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The American Antiquarian Society has one of the leading stereograph collections in the US, with 50,000-60,000stereographs.

Stereo Views . George Eastman House. 12 August 2006. (External Link)

Includes works by over 80 stereo photographers and publishers.

Stereoview cards from our Photo Archives . San Diego Historical Society. 12 August 2006. (External Link)

Focuses on images of California.

Books, articles and online resources

Few scholarly studies of stereographs have been published. To locate a book on stereography, search for aLibrary of Congress subject heading such as“Photography, Stereoscopic,”“Photography, Stereoscopic -- History,”or“Photography–history.”To find a book regardless of whether your library holds it, use WorldCat . If your library does not own a work you need, you can probablyrequest it through interlibrary loan .

Clarke, Graham, The Photograph . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.

A good general work on photography, with sections on“reading”photographs, the history of photography, photographic technologies, and genres.

Darrah, William. The World of Stereographs. Gettysburg, PA: Darrah, 1977.

Especially useful for identify and categorizing stereograph. Full of details about how stereographswere made, the themes depicted in stereographs, and the publishers of stereographs.

Davis, Melody D.“An Essential Reprint in Stereography.” Art Journal , 57.3 (1998): 94-96. JSTOR.

In this review of William Darrah’s The World of Stereographs, Davis examines why stereographs have been more orless ignored by historians of photography and makes a case for their cultural significance.

Earle, Edward, ed. Points of View: The Stereograph in America-A Cultural History . Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1979.

Evans, Elaine A.“In The Sandals of Pharaoh: James Henry Breasted and the Stereoscope.”McClung Museum. 9 August 2006. (External Link)

Museum curator Elaine Evans examines the history of James Henry Breasted’s interest in stereoscopy and the production of his Egypt through the Stereoscope.

Fowles, Jib.“Stereography and the standardization of vision.” Journal of American Culture. 17.2 (1994): 89-94.

Analyzes how stereographs shaped how nineteenth-century Americans viewed the world.

Goldwyn, Craig. Stereographer.com. 13 August 2006. (External Link)

A contemporary stereographer has established a web site with information about stereograph viewers, cameras, andcontemporary artists.

Hoelscher, Steven.“The Photographic Construction of Tourist Space in Victorian America.” Geographical Review . 88.4 (1998): 548-570. JSTOR.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Stereoscope and Stereoscopic Photographs . New York and London: Underwood&Underwood, 1906.

Stereograph company Underwood and Underwood published a number of books promoting stereography, including acollection of essays on the subject by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Holmes’essay“The Stereoscope and the Stereograph,”which was originally published in Atlantic Monthly (1859), is also availableonline at (External Link)

Long, Burke O. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

This scholarly book examines reconstructions of the Holy Land by Americans and includes a chapter onstereographs.

Silverman, Robert.“The Stereoscope and Photographic Depiction in the 19th Century.” Technology and Cultur e 34.4 (1993): 729-756. JSTOR.

Examines the technologies of stereography and the debate over the accuracy of representation andwhether the human eye and imagination are superior to devices such as the stereoscope.

Van De Mieroop, Marc "Breasted, James Henry,” American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. 13 August 2006. (External Link)

American National Biography is an essential reference work for information about important Americans. There arealso biographical reference works profiling people from other countries, such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(focusing on British subjects), the Dictionary of German National Biography, and the Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History. Formore on researching biography, see Identifying Historical Figures: The Souvenir of Egypt .