Keystone View Company (1892)

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The Keystone View Company was a major distributor of stereographic images located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Benneville Lloyd (B.L.) Singley in 1892, who previously was a salesman for Underwood & Underwood. In 1905, Keystone View Company established an educational department, selling views and glass lantern slides to schools throughout the country, making it the world's largest stereographic company. Between 1915 and 1921, Keystone View Company purchased the negatives of nearly all of its competitors, including Underwood & Underwood, and by 1935 Keystone had approximately two million stereoscopic negatives.

In 1932, a stereoscophthalmic department was formed to meet the needs of eye specialists, safety and efficiency engineers, and psychologists who required stereoscopic tests. In the years following, stereoviews continued to be produced but the stereoscophthalmic department exceeded in importance. In 1963, Keystone View Company was purchased by Mast Development Company of Davenport, Iowa. In 1972, Mast Development Company closed the Keystone Meadville manufacturing site, although the name of Keystone View Company continued to be used on eye training equipment.

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Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Division of Cultural History Lantern Slides and Stereographs National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
creatorOf Keystone View Company (Meadville, Pa.). Mississippi River Delta stereograph, circa 1930. Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries
creatorOf Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909,. Collection of stereographs, circa 1893-1905. Harold B. Lee Library
referencedIn Stereoscopic Views, ca. 1889-1898 University of California, Santa Barbara. Davidson Library. Department of Special Collections.
creatorOf Keystone View Companies Factories. Slides, ca. 1910-1920. Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky Guide Project Office
creatorOf World War I stereograph collection [graphic]. North Dakota State University Library
creatorOf Keystone View Co. Stereocards, 1897-1904. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf Keystone Lantern photographic slide collection University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographs, ca. 1892- ca. 1930. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
referencedIn Michael Cirelli collection on Northwest photography, 1865-2000, 1890s-1910s Museum of History & Industry Sophie Frye Bass Library
creatorOf Oregon State System of Higher Education. General Extension Division. Visual Instruction Department lantern slides, ca. 1900-1940. Oregon State University Libraries
creatorOf Keystone-Mast Collection, 1870-1963 UCR/California Museum of Photography
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Vanishing woodland path lantern slide undated. Boulder Public Library
creatorOf Andrieu, J., 1816-after 1876. Stereograph Collection. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Virginia photographs [graphic], 1903, 1907, undated. University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographic Library Collection, ca. 1800-1910. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company. World War I stereographic library, 1918-1921. Emory University. Special Collections and Archives
creatorOf Keystone View Company. New Mexico Landscapes photograph collection [picture]. University of New Mexico-Main Campus
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographs, ca. 1892- ca. 1930. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
creatorOf Thomas Alva Edison Photoprints National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
referencedIn Brady, John Archibald,. John Archibald Brady collection, circa 1900-1902 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Calumet & Hecla Mining Company Stereographs, Circa 1910. Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech
creatorOf Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896,. Saltonstall-Brooks-Lewis photographs, ca. 1830-ca. 1945. Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Snow scene: cottage among the trees lantern slide undated. Boulder Public Library
creatorOf Ullmann, Curt. Views of German expressionist architecture. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Central Press Photograph (London). Press photographs of early twentieth century artists and sculptors. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Stereo Views from Alaska to Mexico Bancroft Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereograph collection on World War I, 1907 - 1918. University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections
referencedIn Stereograph File, [1855-1964] New-York Historical Society
creatorOf Keystone View Company lantern slides, circa 1900-1905 Millbrook Society
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Exhibition of Society of Woman Artists. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographs, circa 1860s-1910s. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf Boston-Area Photograph Albums Boston College. John J. Burns Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company "Tour of the World" Stereographs 88-374., ca. 1892-1933 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Collection of spirit stereographs, 1893-1894 L. Tom Perry Special Collections
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Industrial lantern slide collection. Historical Society of Pennsylvania
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Keystone View Company stereograph collection, 1895-1905. San Jose State University
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Keystone View Company lantern slides, ca. 1892-ca. 1912. College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library
referencedIn Walter Gropius papers in the Bauhaus-Archiv, ca. 1919-1937. Houghton Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Keystone View Company stereographs, circa 1900s. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf Archives Center Stereograph Collection National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographic card collection, 1860-1928. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
creatorOf Stereo Travel Company. Stereographs of Ceylon and India, 1896-1908. Cornell University Library
referencedIn Andrew S. Iddings Papers, 1803-1974, 1900-1971 Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Reprints of Keystone-Mast stereographs of the Exposition universelle internationale de 1900. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Keystone View Company. [Thomas Moran] [graphic] / Keystone View Company. Archives of American Art
creatorOf Elmendorf, Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop), 1859-1929. Theodore Roosevelt Collection: visual materials, 185- -<ongoing>. Houghton Library
creatorOf Stereograph collection on World War I, 1907-1918 University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections
referencedIn Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, circa 1900-1940 Oregon State University Libraries University Archives
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographs of the University of Virginia and Edwin A. Alderman, ca. 1917. University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd). Chickamauga Park, Georgia, stereoptic view, 1898.
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Children of the wild lantern slide undated. Boulder Public Library
referencedIn Stanford University stereograph collection, 1865-circa 1920 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf University of Colorado, Boulder. Bureau of Visual Instruction. Robins lantern slides undated. Boulder Public Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company (Meadville, Pa.). Cotton is king stereograph, circa 1930. Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries
referencedIn Stanford University. Archives. Stereograph collection, 1865-ca. 1920. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographic library tour of the world, before 1940.
referencedIn Kathrine R. Everett and R. O. Everett Papers, 1851-1993 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection
referencedIn Willson, George Crapo, 1871-1938. George Crapo Willson papers 1904-1938. Kettering University
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Cowboys : stereo views, ca. 1933-1934. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Stereographs, ca.1900. Temple University Libraries, Paley Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Slides. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Edith Garland Dupre Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Central Park after the storm lantern slide, undated. Boulder Public Library
creatorOf Jacobsen, Jacques Noel,. Jacques N. and Marion M. Jacobsen collection, 1882-1967 [graphic]. Alaska State Library
referencedIn U.S. West Landscapes Photograph Collection, 1880-1910 The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for SouthwestResearch
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Eastern United States : stereo views, c. 1925. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Keystone View Company Papers, 1903-1918, undated (Bulk 1903-1908) Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
creatorOf Moreland, Steven. California stereograph collection, 1906-1925. San Jose State University
creatorOf World War Through The Stereoscope, ca. 1914-1918 University of California, Santa Barbara. Davidson Library. Department of Special Collections.
creatorOf San José State University. World War I stereograph collection, 1914-1917. San Jose State University
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Thomas Moran, celebrated artist, sketching near Yavapai Point, Grand Canon [sic] Nat. Park / [graphic] Keystone View Company. Archives of American Art
referencedIn George D. Eagleton Stereoview Collection, ca. 1860s-2004 University of California, Santa Barbara. Davidson Library. Department of Special Collections.
creatorOf Keystone View Co. World War Through The Stereoscope, [ca. 1914-1918] University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library
creatorOf Keystone View Company. Keystone View Company "Tour of the World" Stereographs, ca. 1892-1933. University of Texas Libraries
creatorOf Doubleday, Page & Company. Stereographic views of Russia. Getty Research Institute
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associatedWith Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931 person
associatedWith American Stereoscopic Co. corporateBody
associatedWith Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928. person
associatedWith A. S. Hood person
associatedWith Baldwin Locomotive Works. corporateBody
associatedWith B. H. Gurnsey person
associatedWith Blosser Scenic Art Co. corporateBody
associatedWith Brady, John Archibald, person
associatedWith Calumet and Hecla Mining Company corporateBody
associatedWith Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) corporateBody
associatedWith Cirelli, Michael, 1944-2002 person
associatedWith Continent Stereoscopic Co. corporateBody
associatedWith Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933. person
associatedWith Cox, Percy person
associatedWith C. W. Woodward person
associatedWith Eagleton, George D. person
associatedWith E. Dossetter person
associatedWith Edward De Groff person
associatedWith Everett, Kathrine R. (Kathrine Robinson), 1893-1992 person
associatedWith Everett, R. O. (Reuben Oscar), 1879-1971 person
associatedWith F. Jay Haynes person
correspondedWith Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 person
associatedWith H.C. White Company (North Bennington, Vt.) corporateBody
associatedWith Iddings, Andrew S., 1880-1974. person
associatedWith Jacobsen, Jacques Noel, person
associatedWith J. Carbutt person
associatedWith Kilburn Brothers corporateBody
associatedWith La Roche Photo corporateBody
associatedWith Liberty Brand corporateBody
associatedWith Longfellow House (Cambridge, Mass.) corporateBody
associatedWith Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926 person
associatedWith Moreland, Steven person
associatedWith Newell, John H., person
associatedWith Online Archive of California. corporateBody
associatedWith Oregon State System of Higher Education. General Extension Division. corporateBody
associatedWith Peary Arctic Expedition (1896) corporateBody
associatedWith Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 person
associatedWith San Jose State University Library Special Collections & Archives. corporateBody
associatedWith Scott (Mexico), and A. Briquet. corporateBody
associatedWith Second Church (Boston, Mass.) corporateBody
associatedWith Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) person
associatedWith Stanford University. Archives. corporateBody
associatedWith Strohmeyer & Wyman corporateBody
associatedWith Tower of London (London, England) corporateBody
associatedWith Underwood & Underwood corporateBody
associatedWith United States Mint. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Colorado, Boulder. Bureau of Visual Instruction. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Virginia corporateBody
associatedWith University of Virginia. Chapel corporateBody
associatedWith Waite Photo (C. B. Waite) corporateBody
associatedWith W. B. Ingersoll person
associatedWith W. E. Hook person
associatedWith Weitfle, Charles person
associatedWith Willson, George Crapo, 1871-1938. person
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Davenport IA US
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