George D. Eagleton Stereoview Collection ca. 1860s-2004

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George D. Eagleton Stereoview Collection ca. 1860s-2004

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The collection contains ca. 6708 stereoviews, 179 other photographic images (most photo postcards), one videotape about stereoviews, 11 stereoviewers, and related books and issues of , assembled by George D. Eagleton. The stereoviews, some exceedingly rare, include images from many parts of the U.S, and other countries. They cover subjects such as children, the Civil War, farming, Indians [Native Americans], logging, mining, planes, presidents, Russo-Japanese War, ships, Spanish American War, Trains, and World War I. Most of the stereoviews in the collection were produced in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Keystone View Company and Underwood and Underwood (which sold the work of a number of photographers). Numerous other companies also are represented. The cards were intended to be viewed through equipment such as stereopticans, which produced a three-dimensional effect. Stereo World

26 linear feet; (ca. 6708 stereoviews, 179 other photographic images, 1 videotape, and 11 stereoviewers, in 36 shoeboxes, 1 pamphlet-size box, and 4 cartons).

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University of California, Santa Barbara. Davidson Library. Department of Special Collections.

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Keystone view company

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Boxed set of 75 stereoscopic views, World War I scenes with lengthy captions, part of the Stereographic Library issued by the Keystone View Co., ca. 1914-1918. Includes images of battlefields and trenches, armaments, cavalry, buildings, hospitals and cemeteries, dirigible, German prisoners, and Treaty of Versailles. Mainly images from France, but also Belgium, Germany, Turkey (Gallopoli), London, training in the U.S., ships at sea, and one view of submarines, battleships, and torpedo boats in Sa...

Underwood & Underwood

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In 1882 Elmer and Ben Underwood set up an office on Ottawa, Kansas to distribute Eastern photographers' stereographs to the Western market with door-to-door salesmen. By 1891, they had established a plant in Ottawa to manufature stereo photographic cameras, stereo views and stereoscopes; moved their headquarters to New York City, opened branch offices in Baltimore, New York, and Liverpool. By 1901, Underwood and Underwood was manufacturing packaged sets of stereo views--25,000 a day...

Eagleton, George D.

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Biography George D. Eagleton (July 22, 1933 - Jan. 12, 2008) was born in Peoria, Illinois to Lee O. Eagleton and Virginia Mackemer Eagleton. He graduated from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business in 1955, served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, and joined the Northern Trust Bank in Chicago in 1973. In 1987 he relocated to a newly opened branch of the bank in Santa Barbara, where he later retired in 1996. He served on many boards of ...