Israel Stollman collection of stereographs and postcards. [ca. 1860-1930]

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Israel Stollman collection of stereographs and postcards. [ca. 1860-1930]

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The collection includes three boxed sets of stereographs: Australia through the stereoscope and Russia through the steroscope, both published by Underwood & Underwood; and Ireland, published by Stereo-Travel Co. Additionally there is a smaller set of Underwood & Underwood stereographs of Washington, D.C. and Virginia. Miscellaneous stereographs include views of Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, and San Francisco (taken by Eadweard Muybridge); three views of international expositions (1893, 1933), and four tissue stereographs of European views. Also included is a postcard album assembled by an unknown collector to house postcards gathered on several trips made between 1906-1926. Countries represented include Italy, Greece Switzerland, Austria, Mexico and Cuba, and China, Korea, Japan, and Thailand.

398 stereographs (796 photographic prints) : albumen, gelatin silver 9 x 18 cm.1 postcard album (ca. 383 postcards) : gelatin silver, photomechanical prints, b&w, some color album 25.4 x 33 cm., postcards 9.5. x 14.5 cm.

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