The Magazine of 3-Dimensional Imaging, Past & Present

THE MAGAZINE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT

May/)une 1996 Volume 23, Number 2 A PuMk.tion d NATIONAL STEREOScoPlC ASSOCIATION, INC. An Invitati09 to Share Your Best Stereo Images ASSIGNMENT~=D with the World! New Assignment: "Stereo Impact" hile we select the final entries in the "Weather" Wassignment for the next couple of issues, we hope people will start going through their files (or drawers of yet-to-be-mounted slides or prints) with the new "Stereo Impact" assignment in mind. This one's wide open for ANY subject that truly required stereographic imaging to be under- stood or appreciated by those who didn't see it in person. In other words, those things or places that inspire comments along the lines of "Wow! This was just made for stereo!" The best of these are shots "Ice Chamber" by Michael McKinney of Hawthorne, CA may look like it was taken in an which are not just greatly ice cave but it's actually the back side of a waterfall, frozen solid in the winter of 1994 enhanced by stereo, but which lit- near Teluride, CO. When Michael and his wife hiked up the canyon to the falls, they dis- erally depend on stereo to make covered two ice climbers on it. visual sense or to reveal more than a confusing clutter of elements. (Views of complex machinery or dense, tangled forests are often among these sorts of images.) Nearly everybody who's shot even a few rolls of stereos has at least one view that could qualify here. So dig it out, send it in, and make your own Stereo Impact Statement! I Deadline for the stereo Impact Assignment is January 24, 1997. S&D Enterprises of Zion, IL, will send one box of their No. 3300 EMDE stereo slide binders to each stereo'yra- pher whose work appears on the A~si~ynrnent3-0 page, starting with the current Assi'ynment. The Rules: As space allows (and depending on the response) judges will select for publication in each issue at least two of the best views submitted by press time. Rather than tag images as first, second or third place win- ners, the idea will be to present as many good stereographs as possible from among those submitted. Anyone and any image in any print or "Blizzard of 1996" by Morris B. Holbrook of New York captures the weather in both the slide format is eligible. (Keep in mind that flat video of a "live" newscast and the depth of his apartment window at the same time. images will be reproduced in black and In contrast to Channel 4's rather grim image of a man shoveling snow, the storm outside white.) Include all relevant caption material the window transforms Riverside Park and the Hudson River beyond into a bright and and technical data as well as your name and inviting scene. Stereo Realist 3.5, Kodacalor Gold 400 film. (Continued an page 2) ...... Volume 23, Number 2 MayIJune1996

THE MAGAZlNt OF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT Seneca Ray Stoddard: Preserving the Adirondacks in Stereos and in Person ...... 4 by Lois & Glretither Bauer

JSA Board of Directors Andy Griscon1, Cholrmon Looking for Littleton ...... 15 Paula R. F lerning Review by lohn Dennis David Hut:chison

Dieter LI ..,."?,,C,,L T.K. Treadwell C. A View of The Savage View ...... 18 Bill W'alton Review by Larry White NSA Ofi -. .-, rerer t. ralmqu ist, President Larry Moor, Vi ce President William H. Jackson in Books ...... 27 JohnWaldsrnith, Vice President, Activ Review by Tim White Larry Hess, Secretary David Wheeler, Treasurer Stereo World Staff JohnDennis, Editor In Jacobowitz,Associate Editor K aren White, As saciate Editor Tim White, Ass' ociate Editor comments and Observations, by John Dennis Mark Willke, ,Irt Director Editor's View ...... 2 Lois VValdsmith, Sub'icript~on Manas Letters Reader's Comments and Questions ...... 3

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NewVi TW> Dav~dStar kman PO. Box 2368, Culver C~ty,CA 90231 Seneca Ray Stoddard No. 7 34 1, "A Greenbacker: " A rare close-up example of wildlife from the Adiron- The Soc :iety Norman B P alterson dock area that Stoddard worked to preserve. Learn Ioodlawn Ave , M lerley~lle.PA 165 more about the stereographer who helped create The Unkr iowns New York State's Adirondack Park in our feature Neal Bulllriqton "Seneca Ray Stoddard - Preserving the Adirondacks London Dr., Tmve rie C~ty,MI 4968 in Stereos and in Person" by Lois & Cuenther Bauec View-Master Wolfgang & Mary Ann Sell 3752 Broadv~ewDr., C~ncinnati,OH 45208 - - Oliver Wendell Holmes ALL,'+ara~copic L\ Research Libran* (Affil~otedunth Ihf Nohonni Ster~orcoprcAsroc -- Easterr I College, St Davlds, PA 19t Stereo World(lSSN 0191-4030) is published bimonthly by the National Stereoscopic Association, Inc., PO. Box 14801, Columbus, OH 43214. Entire contents 01 996 all r~ghtsresewed. Material in this publication may not be reproduced without written permission of the NSA Inc. Print- Stereo!icopic Society of Arnt ed In USA. A subscrtptkn to Stereo World Ir part of NSA membership. Annual membership dues: 126 th~rdclass US, 138 first cldss US, $38 ,",,,,,"+"A ,, ,, u,cu nth llir Notlono1 StereorcoprcAssoc Canada and forelgn surface 156 lnternat~onalairmail. All membersh~psare based on the publish~ngyear of Stereo World wh~chbe Ins in March E. lack Swarthout, Membership Secr etary and ends with the ~anuar~i~ebruar~Issue of the next year All new membersh~psrece~ved will commence w~ththe harchiAo4 Issue of the 12 Woodmere Dr, Par~s,11 6194 4 current calendar year. When applying for membersh~p,please adv~seus ~fyou do not deslre ths e back Issues of tlhe current volim e. .... Comments and Observations EDITORSWEW john Dennis S W Advertising or the first time since 1991, will remain the same. For a rate Since the NSA budget allows for rates for display advertising in sheet with information on exact little if any spending on promo- FStereo World need to be adjust- dimensions, prices, charges for tional advertising, we must depend ed. As a non-profit organization, photos, etc., write to Stereo World on the membership to help reach a our intent has always been that ads, 5610 SE 71st, Portland OR lot more of these people a lot such ads be available largely as a 97206. sooner. Besides the existing NSA service to readers and those with Advertising S W membership brochure, a new pro- all-too-rare products and services motional flyer will soon be avail- in the 3-D field. But such a service Speaking of advertising, the NSA able to spread around at photo- must at least be self-sustaining if it and Stereo World continue to graphica shows, camera stores, his- is to continue, and both produc- remain unknown to thousands of torical societies, antique shops, sci- tion and postage costs have con- potentially interested members ence museums, photography class- and readers who could help the tinued to rise. A half-page ad in es, local newspaper offices, etc. If Stereo World for instance, has been organization continue to grow in every NSA member were to distrib- $55.00; less than one-sixth the rate size and depth of interests and ute just 20 brochures in locations charged by some other specialized knowledge. These stereo collectors, like that, we could be reaching a magazines with circulations well shooters, or experimenters still specifically targeted audience that under half that of SW. express their surprise and delight even the most expensive ad agency The new rates, still an outra- when they stumble upon us couldn't easily locate. geous bargain, will range from $22 thanks to the brother-in-law of a To request NSA brochures, sim- for a one-twelfth page ad (one col- friend who saw something on the ply write to the NSA, PO Box umn by about 2 inches) to $82 for internet or to some obscure refer- 14801, Columbus, OH 43214, and a one-third page ad and $200 for a ence in the footnotes of some let us know how many you can full page ad. Rates for classified ads technical journal. use. oo

A Catalog of A. F. Styles Views he NSA Book Service now has homes may now be within the limits of paid from the NSA Book and Infor- Tavailable a reproduction of the the crowded cities, on the wide-spread- mation Service, 4201 Nagle Road, complete 30-page catalog of Ver- ing prairies of the West, or the far-off Bryan, TX 77801, (409) 846-0209 mont stereographer A.F. Styles, Pacific shores; while to those who have fax: 691-2432. rrn never seen it, no description in words provided through the courtesy of can give an adequate idea of the reality. Mr. Stuart Butterfield. Three addi- Some years since the subscriber com- tional pages of Styles numbers and menced making a collection of Photo- titles are included which don't graphic views, from all parts of the state, Assignment- - 3-D appear in the original. believing that the thousands of Vermon- (Continrrctl from inside front cover) Styles specialized in views of ters scattered in every State in the Union, address. Each entrant may submit up to 6 Vermont's Green Mountains, and would gladly hail the opportunity of images per assignment. introduced his catalog by describ- obtaining these mementos of home. The Any stereographer, amateur or profession- hundreds of orders, received from all al, is eligible. Stereos which have won ing how those who had left Ver- Stereoscopic Society or PSA competitions are mont for other parts of the coun- parts of the country, has encouraged him to increase his list to the present size. It is equally eligible, but please try to send views made within the past eight years. All views try really needed his views to not expected that every one will find remind them of home: will be returned within 6 to 14 weeks, but views in the immediate vicinity of their Stereo World and the NSA assume no respon- The variety and beauty of Green old home, yet every Vermonter will be sibility for the safety of photographs. Please Mountain Scenery has become so widely able to make a selection from the list, include return postage with entries. Submis- celebrated, that no words of praise are which will be interesting, not only to sion of an image constitutes permission for needed in its behalf. Those who have himself but to his friends. its one-use reproduction in Stereo World. All passed their youthful days among the other rights are retained by the photograph- hills and valleys of Vermont are not likely Catalo,p of The Stereoviews of A.F. er. Send all entries directly to: ASSIGNMENT soon to forget them, although their Styles is available for $3.00 post- 3-D, 5610 SE 71st, Portland, OR 97206. Reader's Comments 1ETTERS and Questions

Globe Views go to Christie's sign the views. They will be offered length and rested on the page, and the superior lenses in the viewer received my MarchIApril issue of at Christie's October '96 sale of give an excellent stereo impression Stereo World. I would like to say 19th and 20th century photogra- with a minimum of squinting. Mr. thank you for printing the article phy. [Catalog information: (800) I 395-6300, general information: Barrett might try this, which I find about the "Global" find. [About 500 gives much less strain and much views from Globe Stereographic and Stereo (212) 371-5438.] Bart Catena more clarity than either free view- Trgvel Co. in Letters, page 31. Whitestone, NY ing or the lorgnettes. Due to an overwhelming Peter H. Fowler response from interested parties Viewing Printed Stereos North Bend, OR and our inability to handle such a Your recent issue (Vol. 23 No. 1.) response, we were forced to con- had correspondence on viewing Those whose glasses don't fit in the stereos reproduced in the magazine. Telebinocular hood may want to try the f you have comments or questions for the While the lorgnettes work OK, I hoodless Bioptor Stereoscope from Reel Ied~tor concernfng any stereo-related matter 3-0 Enterprises. It's priced at $109.95, appearing (or missmg) m the pages of Stereo find that a better way to view but it has high quality glass lenses and a World, please wrfte to john Dennfs, Stereo printed stereos is with a Keystone removable tongue for magazine viewing. World Edftonal Offfce,561 0 SE 71st Ave., Telebinocular. The card carrier can - Ed. gg Portland, OR 97206 be pulled out to a convenient -- - Do Any VintageNStereo Tintypes"Rea1ly Exist? by Peter H. Fowler Stereo World contributor Peter Fowler this, I don't believe there is any viewing them next to unquestion- answers the above with "Prove it." He's not evidence that anyone did. It would able period (mono) examples. concerned with accidental pairs from multiple- Again, they are notably similar [to lens portrait camems, brrt with full size stereo- have been a delicate and expensive views of 19th cenhrry srrbjects which have piece of equipment, not suitable to each other] suggesting a common appeared (somehow properly transposed) on outdoor use-and all of these sin- origin. sin$e ferrotype plates. (See examples in sw gle plate stereo ferrotypes I have I suggest that the appearance of Vol. 18 No. 6, pqye 26.) If cameras using seen have been outdoor shots. This these pieces is consistent with their minors or systems for sequential exposures were impractical for oritdoor use, as he claims, then is itself a suspicious circumstance, having been made by a single per- stereo tintypes wolrld need to have been art and as the vast majority of ferrotypes son-judging from the wear etC., transposed like any other pairs. We invite are studio photos. It is also inex- possibly working in the mid 20th anyone with historical evidence or images plicable if the photos in question century. The appearance is consis- supporting either side of the question to write. tent with their being contact prints - Ed. came from different sources. In fact, the plates' style, finish and of period [positive] glass plate he following are comments I stock are identical, making it high- stereos, which would explain sev- Tmade on examining two pur- ly likely that they all have a com- era1 of the above mentioned pecu- ported Victorian single plate stereo origin. liarities. ferrotypes. I have seen Physically, the plates are unlike I have contacted several recog- of these, and their similarity and period ferrotypes in a number of nized authorities and photographic characteristics lead me respects. The iron stock is thicker museums in an attempt to locate speculate on their origin. It would and stiffer than period material, an unquestionable period stereo be of great interest if someone in and flatter without the waviness ferrotype. None have such a thing the NSA could prove that there are frequently seen in period pieces. In in their collections, or can point to any known stereo ferrOty~eswhich period items the emulsion goes any literature or other evidence for were made in the 19th century. smoothly to the edge of the plate, the existence of such a thing. The images in the I and the image fades out at the Obviously none of the above have seen appear to be from the edges. The suspect pieces appear to proves that these items are not peri- mid 19th century, taken as stereos. have had the emulsion applied od, though with valuable antiques The question is how they came only to the image area, so that the the burden of proof lies in the be ferrotypes. The first thing to image ends abruptly. opposite corner, i.e. to prove they consider is that they are right-way- The contrast and general appear- are genuine. Such proof requires [properly transposed] ance of the images is markedly dif- unquestionable provenance-a on an original single plate. While ferent from period ferrotypes, thing missing in every stereo fer- it is possible to make a camera do though this is evident only by rotype I have ever seen or heard of. P19 ard Seneca Ray Stoddard. (Date and photographer unknown.) Courtesy of Adirondock Museum, Blue Mountain Preserving the Lake, NK Stereos and in Person by Lois & Guenther Bauer

Stoddard No. 59, "On the Beach, Lake George." The shadows of Stoddard and his camera are visible, as well as the dark tent in the boat.

0 MarlJune 1996 STEREO WORLD "Glen's Falls, N. L: " shows a fireman's muster on luly 4, 1870, near Stoddard's studio. Tnrecent years the name of 19th 1 ...... century photographer Seneca was to influence the lawmakers to or knew very little about Stod- Ray Stoddard has surfaced as an vote for passage of a bill creating dard's overall contribution to the important player in the creation I an Adirondack State Park. This state. Even today many photogra- New York State's Adirondack of would assure protection for a vir- phy scholars are only aware that Park. In 1922 his name received gin area larger than Yellowstone he was one of the earliest and public attention when a New York National Park. most productive of many persons State legislature reception celebrat- It was Stoddard's expertise and who photographed the Adiron- ed the 100th anniversary of the versatility as an artist, photograph- dacks. park. Notable at this reception was er, writer, publisher, map maker The significance of Stoddard's a slide show representation of and lecturer which enabled him to accomplishments might have Stoddard's Adirondack lantern become a knowledgeable, caring slipped into obscurity had it not slide show and lecture, as original- and articulate spokesman for the been for Adirondack historian ly presented by him to the state Adirondacks. For many years dur- Maitland De Sormo and a few pho- legislature on February 26, 1892. ing the 20th century most New tography scholars from the north- The purpose of his presentation York historians either overlooked east. In 1962 De Sormo, a collector ...... of Adirondack memorabilia, pur- "Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George. " This large hotel was built in 1868 and was chased a major body of Stoddard's one of the places where Stoddard stereoviews were sold.

Port Willinm Ilonrg I e George. " Good-by to Lake George." "Good-by to Lake George." This view promoted the Fort W1111amHenry Hotel wlth the help of these satisfied looking tourists in 1870. time. In 1867 a notice appeared in ...... the Glens Falls Republican which praised Stoddard's collection of work from the photographer's fam- in the Adirondack region. The local stereoviews as being artistic, ily. He subsequently wrote articles major portion of this material is interesting and possessing real in local magazines acquainting now housed in the Chapman His- merit. Around this same time Stod- readers with Stoddard's impact on torical Museum in Glens Falls, NY, local history. Over the years his and in the Adirondack museum at dard formed a partnership with J.H. Carpenter, a Lake George pho- collection of Stoddard photo- Blue Mountain Lake, New York. tographer. This arrangement, graphs, maps and literature was Seneca Ray Stoddard was born although brief, did produce a small made available to organizations, on may 13, 1843 in Wilton, NY. libraries, museums and collectors His parents operated a small family group of Lake George stereoviews with the imprint "Carpenter & farm near the southern edge of the Stoddard". By the late 1860s, Stod- Adirondacks. Not much is known The Adirondack Survey Signal on about Stoddard's early life. When dard was producing his own views Noon Mark Mountain, Oct. 1, 1879, he was 19 he left the farm to go to of the Lake George region. the year that Stoddard was head of In 1869, During a post war peri- Troy, Nu,where he was employed the Photographic Division for the as an ornamental painter of rail- od of prosperity and optimism in Adirondack Survey team. Stereo half the northeast, a book by preacher road cars. In a short time he courtesy of Adirondack Museum, William Murray captured the Blue Mountain Lake, NK moved to Glens Falls, a thriving village located just south of Lake imagination of adventure-starved city folks. The book, titled Adven- George. Stoddard would live the ture in the Wilderness, romanticized rest of his life here, in a village des- tined to become the southern gate- the Adirondacks as the last great wilderness in the east. This was way to Lake George and the Adirondack region. Although he also a time that had recently expe- was initially employed as a sign rienced the introduction of the railroads to points near the painter, He started to do landscape Adirondacks. These events led to a paintings, sketches and drawings rush of visitors into the wilderness of the area. He became proficient areas where mainly only hunters, enough to be able to give art fishermen, miners and lumberjacks lessons in his own studio. During had ventured. these early years, Stoddard also served an apprenticeship as a sur- It was during the beginning of this boom period that Stoddard, veyor, an experience which would then in his mid-twenties, began serve him well in later years. offering his photographs to Exactly when Stoddard became tourists as souvenirs of their trips. interested in Photography is not Over the next decade, Stoddard known. Although he was still listed would travel throughout the as a landscape painter in an 1870 Adirondacks to photograph the census, it is evident that he began lakes, forests, mountains and using a camera well before that

Mayllune 1996 STEREO ttQRLD Stoddard No. 134 7, "A Greenbacker." A rare close-up example of wildlife from the Adirondack area that Stoddard worked to preserve. had been limited to the Lake ...... George- region- located on the scenic wonders. In the process his er, it was his second trip in 1873 fringe areas of the Adirondacks. In camera would record a history of and subsequent trips that pro- 1871 Stoddard received what may the region's inns, steamboats, car- duced the numerous stereoviews have been his first national expo- riages, old forts and people. On his and other photographs that were sure when E. & H.T. Anthony and early photographic trips he was made available to the tourist trade. Company of New York City active- usually accompanied by his broth- Up until that time most of Stod- ly promoted his Lake George land- er in law, Charles Oblenis. His first dard's Adirondack photographs scape views as suggestions for iournev into the interior of the Christmas presents. kdironhacks was in 1870. Howev- I ...... The steamer Haricon, where Stoddard's views were sold, on Lake George in 7 877. "., " .. - ,.." - -**- Yln .",.,*...... * '." Stoddard No. 2320, "At Blue Mountain Lake, September 11, 1879." A devoted In 1875 Stoddard began to pub- canoeist, Stoddard served as the official photographer for the American Canoe Associ- lish his own photographic catalog ation. of New York scenery. His 1877 cat- ...... , ...... , ...... alog indicates that his stereoview graphs and photographic equip- included in the 1874 guidebook selection had grown to 1400 views. ment and supplies. He modified the following: Separate listings also included his own cameras and in 1882 was On the following pages will be many 5x8 inch and 11x14 inch granted a patent for a combined found leaves from catalogues landscape views of the region that plate and film holder. which will be sent free on applica- Stoddard referred to as Studies for In the early 1870s Stoddard tion with stamp enclosed. I have Artists. Although not specifically started to author and publish a 600 stereoscopic views of Lake listed in his catalogs, Stoddard also series of guidebooks for tourists George, Lake Luzerne, Lake Cham- produced carte-de-visite views of visiting the Lake George and plain and other places. They may the Lake George and Lake Luzerne be obtained at Fougets Hotel Adirondack regions. The Adiron- (Platsburgh, N.Y.), on steamboats regions. By 1880 Stoddard's photo- ducks Illustrated, first published in graphs were being marketed in (the Horican and the Vermont), 1874, became the most popular of and at W.G. Baldwin, Keeseville, New York City, Boston, Philadel- these books. This 204 page edition N.Y. (photographer) and at the phia, Montreal, London, Paris and contained useful information on lower entrance to Ausable Chasm. Berlin. the region's hotels and inns, along In order to compliment his Like most photographers who with the routes and means of were in business for many years, guidebook series Stoddard began to transportation from and to Mon- prepare his own maps of the Stoddard actively used a stereo treal, Albany, New York City and camera for only a portion of his region. His first maps were based Boston. These books contained no on ones already in existence, but career. His earliest stereoviews were photographs but did have many of produced in the 1860s. Although by 1880 he produced his own orig- Stoddard's own sketches and illus- inals. In the following years he the vast majority of his stereoviews trations. The guidebooks became were produced between 1870 and also made outstanding hydro- very popular in the northeast and graphic charts of Lake George and 1880, he continued to publish and were made available in various market these views well into the Lake Champlain. His maps and forms until 1915. An indication of charts proved to be accurate and 1880s. Most of these stereoviews the books' early marketing success were the larger 4x7 inch size with reliable and were used extensively is reflected in the 1874 edition for years, not only by tourists, but the imprint "CRYSTAL" on the top which contained a two page adver- front of a yellow or orange card. It by sports clubs and various state tisement by E. & H.T. Anthony & agencies. is estimated that during his life- Co., promoting themselves as the time Stoddard produced over 2000 In addition to his photographs, leading publisher of stereoscopic guidebooks, charts and maps Stod- different stereoviews. His photo- views in the United States. Not one graphs were processed in a small dard was directly in the production to overlook a marketing potential of advertising brochures for the studio at his home in Glens Falls. for his own photographs, Stoddard From here he also sold his photo- region's hotels, railroads and Stoddard No. 2343, "Steamboat Land~ng,foot, Utowana Lake. " The steamer Utowana provided transportation between Blue Mountain and Raquette Lakes. New York. In his seventh annual ...... report (1878) on the annual steamboats. He would take the endeavors. The most important of progress of the Adirondack Survey, Calvin wrote the following: necessary photographs, prepare the these occurred in 1878 when Stod- text, design the layout and ulti- dard was hired by Verplank Colvin The force consisted of the pho- mately provide for the printing to take charge of the photographic tographer (Stoddard), the assistant and delivery of the final product. photographer and the usual guides division of the Topographical Sur- and packman. The wet process Although most of Stoddard's vey of the Adirondack Region of was employed in taking the nega- efforts were directed toward the tourist trade he did manage to get ...... involved in other photographic Stoddard No. 7 683, "Running the Rapids, Ausable Chasm - the start. " This half-mile boat ride provided thrills for tourists.

STEREO WORLD MayIJune 1996 @ tives of the valley and mountain Stoddard No. 61 9, "Caught in His Own Trap. " Stoddard with his photo- views. The camera was provided graphic equipment on Table Rock, Ausable Chasm, Adirondacks. Courtesy of Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY: with compass and with bubbles for leveling it. Each negative includes an angle of 30 degrees of trated Adirondack slide show and generally throughout the state it arc so that 12 plates afford an lecture, Stoddard brought a visual would do more in two months entire circle at any given station. concept of the park to the legisla- time to correct the abuses of the More than two hundred of these ture and other VIPs in the cham- Adirondacks than all the surveys special photographs have been bers of the New York State Assem- and commissions of the past twen- taken the past season.... bly. In the following months, as ty years." This assignment with Colvin lawmakers continued to debate the The New York Times and the was significant in that it highlights issues, Stoddard presented the Rochester Herald also praised the Stoddard's early credibility as an same slide show and lecture to show for its content and purpose. important photographer. His expe- audiences throughout the Empire The actual impact of Stoddard's rience in surveying and his famil- State. On May 10, 1892 the Glens efforts can never be measured, but iarity with the Adirondacks cer- Falls Daily Times wrote: "If the lec- the conservation bill was successful tainly qualified him for this work. ture as delivered by Mr. Stoddard and became law on May 20, 1892. The most important aspect of last evening, with the accompany- The success of his Adirondack Stoddard's association with the sur- ing illustrations, could be attended slide show must have inspired vey team may have been his exposure to Colvin's passionate view New York's six million acre that the Adirondacks should be Adirondack Park is the perceived as an important resource largest public park in the contiguous US., covering to be preserved in its natural state. ~dack As superintendent of the state sur- Park one-fifth of the state and vey from 1872 on, Colvin had equaling Vermont in size. explored areas previously seen Those who think first of Yel- only by the area's Native American lowstone or Yosemite as big parks are often surprised to inhabitants. He was a tireless pro- learn that Adirondack Park moter of the Adirondacks who ulti- is nearly three times larger mately caught the attention of than Yellowstone. Within its people and officials in high places. borders are 43 mountains But in 1892, as legislation for a over 4,000 feet, 2,800 state park was finally being consid- lakes and ponds, over ered, it may have been Stoddard 7,500 miles of rivers, and who provided the impetus for the many species of plants and passage of the conservation bill. animals found nowhere else On February 25th, with his Illus- in New York State. Stoddard to develop additional Stoddard No. 1245, "Clinton Prison High Post. " One of 20 views, taken in 1874, reported to be the first photographs of Adirondack Prison grounds. slide shows. Over the next eight ...... years Stoddard traveled throughout the U.S., Europe and the Near East oped a series of illustrated lectures dard was described as an eloquent photographing and noting areas of which were shown in the better speaker who complimented his interest. On his final trip in 1900 Adirondack hotels and in cities stunning tinted lantern views with he photographed the Paris Exposi- and towns throughout the north- a sense of poetry and wit. At the tion. From these trips he devel- east. The lectures were highly conclusion of the lecture he would regarded and well attended. Stod- have available for sale stereoviews

STEREO WRIB Mayllune Many of the photographs used Stoddard No. 348, "Camp Life, Upper Ausable, Adirondacks. " Stoddord is at left, facing the camera with wire in hand to take his own picture. in the slide shows included pic- I ...... tures of immense subjects taken at In 1906 Stoddard once again pioneer photographers Mathew night with the aid of magnesium turned his attention toward the Brady and William Jackson. In flash powder. One such photo- Adirondacks. He published his more recent years his landscape graph, taken in 1890 and now con- own magazine called Stoddard's photographs have again received sidered a classic, was an 8x10 inch Northern Monthly, which was dedi- special attention. Many collectors, picture of the Statue of Liberty cated to glorifying and preserving scholars and museum curators now entitled "Liberty Enlightening the the Adirondacks. The magazine consider Stoddard the principal World". According to De Sormo, it contained articles and photographs eastern counterpart of those pho- was the only photograph of the which depicted the plundering of tographers who documented the statue at that time that Bartholdi, the region by lumbering and other landscape of the western United its maker, considered worthy of power interests. He made his read- States. Like some of his western the subject. Stoddard later reported ers aware of land seizures, corrup- contemporaries, he was originally that he encountered various prob- tion and vague enforcement of a landscape painter. Like others, he lems in accomplishing this feat. He game laws occurring within the was employed as the official pho- revealed that one of the five cam- area. This worthy magazine proved tographer photographer for several eras he had set up for this event to be a financial failure and was railroads. He also participated in a was equipped with stereoscopic discontinued in 1908. After this major topographical survey of lenses. This camera, along with the period Stoddard took few photo- unknown wilderness areas. His 8x10 camera, provided the only graphs, confining his activities to importance is further accentuated successful exposures. Unfortunate- his guidebooks and maps. His last by the role he played in the suc- ly the stereoscopic plates were major guide publication was cessful effort to safeguard these spoiled during the fixing process, around 1910 when he issued his same areas. thereby depriving present stere- auto-road map of the Adirondacks, Stoddard left future generations oview collectors and scholars of the Champlain Valley and the a legacy of sketches, photographs, this remarkable achievement in Hudson Valley. In 1917, at the age guidebooks and maps which cap- depth. of 73, Seneca Ray Stoddard died at tured and glorified the Adiron- Stoddard continued to concen- his home in Glens Falls, New York. dacks during their golden years. trate on his lecture series until Although Stoddard wore many For most of his life he directed his 1905, when his wife's health hats during his lifetime, he was efforts toward the tourist trade, but declined. In 1906, after 42 years of and is best remembered for his in his final years he became a con- marriage, Stoddard's wife Helen outstanding photographs. In 1876, servationist whose own works pro- died. They appear to have had a at the Philadelphia Centennial vided a powerful statement for the successful family life, raising two Exhibition, he was cited for his enduring preservation of the sons who became prominent in landscape photography. During his Adirondacks. The final appraisal of their own fields of endeavor-law career he was put on a level with Stoddard's place in history is still and medicine.

@ May/June 1996 STEREO WRD - in progress. One thing is "CRYSTAL" Stoddard No. 302, "Paul Smith's, Adirondacks." Built in 1859 at St. Recis Lake, this is now the site of Paul Smith's College Campus. clear. Seneca Ray Stoddard's star is ...... finally rising to find its rightful place among important nineteenth century photographers. Sources Blodgett, Richard - Photographs; A Col- lectors Guide , 1979. Welling, William - Photography in America, the Formative Years, 1978 and Seneca Ray Stoddard: Photographer of the Adirondacks, Photographica, Please enroll me as a member of the National Stereo5copic iIs5ociation. 1983. I understand that my one-year subscription to Stereo World Maitland De Sormo - Seneca Ray Stod- will begin with the- MarchIApril issue of the current- year. - -- dad, Versatile Camera Artist, 1972. -- Colvin, Verplank - Seventh Annual U U.S. membership mailed third class ($26). I - Report on the Progress of the Topo- U.S. membership mailed first class for faster delivery ($38). I graphical Slrrvey of the Adirondack I U I Region of N. Y. to the Year 1879, State Foreign membership mailed surface rate, and first class to Canada ($38). of New York, 1880. Foreign membership mailed international airmail ($56). Stoddard, Seneca Ray - (1) The Adiron- dacks Illustrated. 1874. (2) List of I Send a sample copy ($5.50). I photographs, lk74. (3)'datalope of Please make checks payable to the National Stereoscopic Aswcia tion. Photographs of New York Scenery, Foreign members please rem~tIn U.S. dollars with a CanadIan Porta l Money 1877. (4) Stoddard's Adirondack order, an lnternat~onalMoney Order, or a foreign bank draft on a U .S. hank. Monthly, July 1908. -- -- Treadwell and Darrah - Stereographs of the World, Vol. 2, U.S., NSA, 1994. Name Notes Address Many thanks for assistance provided by the Chapman Historical Museum, Glens Falls, NY, and the Adirondack Museum, Blue City State Zip Mountain Lake, Nu. This article is dedicated to the memory of Maitland De Sormo who passed away dur- aNational Sterec ic Ass ion ing the winter of 1992. He was the author- publisher of various historical Adirondack PO Box 14801, Columbus. OH 43214 literary works including Seneca Ray Stoddard, The Only National Organization Devoted Exclusively To Stereo Photography, Stereoviews, and 3-Dlmadng Technique Versatile Camera Artist, published in 1972.mm I

STEREO WORLLJ MayIJune 1996 @ News from the Stereoscopic Society of America Norman B. Patterson

s time passes by it brings its circuit and Craig Daniels assuming Favorite Views inevitable changes. Comparing the role of VIEWSLETTER editor 1 "Full Moon" (.705) a recently issued list of current with the idea of re-inventing the by Thorn Gillam A 2 "Grain of a Millennia" (.621) Society officers with another dated form it will take in the immediate by Keith Gregori just about a year ago, one notes future. 3. "Port Hole" (.600) the milestones encountered along Who's On First? by Rob Kruse the way. 4. "Thai Mahout" (.595) Craig Daniels has raised the by Richard Twichell Two new folio circuits are now embarrassing question, based upon 5. "Light House at Presque Isle" (.582) in operation which did not exist in the assumption that I am the by Rill Patterson April of 1995. Ray Smullyan is the strictly unofficial, never appointed, 6. "Das Palien" (.550) secretary of the 21/4 x 2V" circuit by Rob Kruse Society Historian, "Do you keep a which features transparencies in a 7. "Elephant Rock" (520) log of 'Society Firsts' ?" I must con- by Quentin Rurke somewhat larger size than the fess that the thought never more familiar 35mm formats (Real- occurred to me, at least not in the Ovine Print Circuit ist, Verascope, and related in- sense that the question implies- between choices in cropping, as On a scale of zero to ten, the although I suppose we could put well as full-frame 35mm used in average score of their top three together something, however 2x2" matched pairs). The medium views determines the ranking of incomplete. Anyway, Craig offers a for these larger transparencies is the best-scoring viewmakers, as few suggestions for inclusion. 120 film, with its inherent poten- follows: From the Feline Print Circuit are Top three Average of tial for increased image quality. Member vlews alljic~? David Lee's two-station cloud David Lee ...... 7.46 ...... 5.96 There is room for additional mem- views (as distinguished from the Bill Albert ...... 4.98 ...... 3.17 bers in this group, and anyone more common let-the-clouds-pass Brandt Rowles ...... 4.93 ...... 2.93 interested should contact the Mike Isenberg ...... 4.70 ...... 3.93 pairs or airplane flight shift pairs); membership secretary listed below. Michael Pierazzi ...... 4.22 ...... 2.69 Dennis Ellingsen ...... 4.16 ...... 1.43 A new print group, the Avian and Donna Reuter's mounting method which laminates the card David Thompson ...... 3.78 ...... 1.93 Circuit, is now well under way and the prints between two plastic with Donna M. Reuter as the secre- Top Scoring Views sheets. Since some lamination tary. It has launched three folio (All entries attaining an average of 6.00 or mounting occurs in other circuits I boxes so far and with some very more.) will pass on who was first. More 1 "Moonrise" (7.72) talented print-makers having on firsts later! by David Lee joined the route-list, we can look 2 "Burnt Trees" (7.55) to exciting days ahead-judging Voting Results by David Lee from the early entries we should Results of the voting for the cal- 3 "Monorail and Ferris Wheels" (7.1 1) not be disappointed. by David Lee endar year 1995 have been 4 "Panamint Dry Lake" (7.05) Other changes occurring in the received from several circuits and by David Lee past year have seen Ed and Deb the leaders in each instance are 5 "Canal Days" (7.05) Halcomb take on the management included in the listings that follow. by Rill Albert of the (2x2)x2 35mm matched pair 6 "Undertaker's Desk" (6.89) Each circuit secretary determines by David Lee the method in which this is han- 7 "HYPERCINCI" (6.1 1) e Stereoscopic Society of America is a dled in the individual cases. Voting by Brandt Rowles rgroup of currently active stereo photogra- is encouraged but not required and 8 "May Lake" (6.00) phers who circulate their work by means of is an indication of how well one's by David Lee postal folios. Both print and transparency formats are used, and several groups are oper- work is received-but is a side- Beta Transparency Circuit atir ?g folio circuits to met the needs in each light-the main goals of the Total fortnot. When (7 folio arrives, a member views Stereoscopic Society being: sharing, Member 1st 2nd 3rd in& an(f makes coniments on each of the entries learning, and enjoying stereogra- David Hutchison ...37 ...... 25 ...... 19...... 1XO of 1-he other pal Vicipants. His or her own Mark Willke ...... 23 ...... 31 ...... 24 ...... 155 view. wnrcn, .~, nos8 traveled the circuit and has phy with each other. Larry Moor ...... 30 ...... 24 ...... 13...... 151 bet,n examined and commetnted upon 1:)y the Richard Twichell .... 12...... 13...... 9 ...... 71 0ther members, is removed and replaced with Caprine Print Circuit Dean Jacobowitz ..... 7 ...... 11...... 19...... 62 & anew entry. Tf1e folio then continues it!r end- "Ilattin Average" Blake Raines ...... 10...... 9 ...... 14...... 62 .... Member of aa views less travels around the cfrcuft. Many long dis- John Roll ...... 5 ...... 11...... 12...... 49 Rill Patterson ...... 0.290 tance friendships have formed among the Derek Leath ...... 10...... 5 ...... 8 ...... 48 Rob Kruse ...... 0.280 participants in this manner over the years. Scott Mathews ...... 7 ...... 7 ...... 12...... 47 Ken Carpenter ...... 0.250 Stereo photographers who may be fnterest- Joel Glenn ...... 10...... 4 ...... 6 ...... 44 Tim White ...... 0.246 ed in Society membership should write to the Richard Twichell ...... 0.224 (Continued an page 18) Membership Secretary, E. lack Swarthou t, 12 Quentin Burke ...... 0.224 Woodmere Dr., Paris, IL 6 1 !,44. Thorn Gillam ...... 0.203

- @ May/June 1996 STEREO WURLD Lookina

Review by John Dennis

planned by a consortium of photo chronological order. These cover ven to those who have never historians and Disney engineers. businesses and industries, fires and seen it, the town of Littleton, The history of Littleton's four floods, visitors and election cam- ENew Hampshire will always stereoview companies has been paigns, transportation, entertain- have special meaning to any seri- well researched and illustrated in ment, winter, churches and Linda McShanets 1993 book "When schools, and of course stereoview ous student or collector of stereo- I views. Nineteenth century Little- I Wanted the Sun to publishers with some ton had the unique distinction of Shine"-Kilburn and samples (printed as being home to four view compa- Other Littleton, New ha1f:views) of their nies; F.G. Weller, G.H. Aldrich, The Hampshire Stereogra- "For its size/ images. Littleton View Company, and the phers. (See SW Vol. 19 Lit f/efon was Formal and informal Kilburn Brothers. From Littleton, No. 6 for an excerpt group shots seem to stereographers documented scenic chapter on the Little- probably One dominate many of and tourist attractions in the ton-view Company of the most the pages, with peo- White Mountains and other areas from the book.) ple assembled for of New Hampshire as well as sub- Now Arthur F. photographed photos in front of jects from around the U.S. and the March, Jr. has provid- towns -in iactories, schools, ice world. ed an equally intrigu- rinks, hotels, stores ing and well illustrat- and delivery wagons. For NSA members who visited the country... Littleton as part of the 1984 con- ed history of the town When not posing, the vention, the town seemed very itself in Littleton New people of Littleton nearly enchanted. The former Kil- Hampshire. The author, who serves are seen at work and play, in burn view factory and Ben Kil- on the committee in charge of cat- parades, listening to speeches, burn's house added a finishing aloging and preserving the photo watching floods and fires, waiting touch to an already strong sense of and stereograph collections of the for trains, etc. For its size, Littleton living history inspired by visits to Littleton Area Historical Society, was probably one of the most the scenes of so many White has selected over 200 of the five photographed towns in the coun- Mountain stereoviews. Littleton (it thousand Littleton images to pro- try-thanks in no small part to the still sounds like a name found on vide a delightful look at nearly presence of the local stereoview the buildings of a model train set) every aspect of life in Littleton's industry as well as many studio could hardly have been better pre- history on the book's 128 pages. photographers and amateurs. sented as what was once the From the town's earliest lumber While it's no substitute for actually world's largest source of stereo- mills to the interiors of glove fac- visiting, Littleton New Hampshire views if its entire design had been tories, stores, Stereoview factories, makes an excellent companion and the famous opera house, a book to illustrate the local history

STEREO WCJRLD MayIJune 1996 @ Can You Identify the Subjects of These Views? THE UNKNOWNSNeal Bullington

@ May/June 1996 STEREO UWRLD hanks to David Miller for con- "castle". She sent some current the bottom of page 16 as Washing- firming the identification of photos of the same spot, now ton Street in Chicago. Looking Tthe Columbian Exposition occupied by a giant American west from State St., the building Unknown shown on page 4 in the Holly tree. She says that photogra- tall columns is the CityICounty MayIJune '95 issue. pher Siebert worked in D.C. largely Building and the intersecting street Also thanks to Paula Fleming, in the 1870s, so the Unknown in the middle is Dearborn. At the Photo Archivist at the National probably dates from that decade. northwest corner of Washington is Museum of Natural History, for We had quick responses to two the McCarthy Building, built in confirming that the view shown at of the views in the Sept./Oct. '95 1872. All of the buildings shown the top of page 5 in the same issue issue. David Miller and George here were built after the great fire is the Smithsonian Institution Enos identified the street scene at (Continued on page 27)

STEREO WORLD Mayllunr 1996 @ A View of The Savaae View Review by Larry White

because the book contains only in this high-tech age will leave as hat do Mormonism and five full stereoviews. They are good a record of our own lives for stereo photography have in printed in such a large format that later generations. W common? The answer is you need exceptionally long arms All in all, The Savage View is fine "Charles R. Savage." Even if you're to successfully fuse them. [Fortu- enough to grace your coffee table not a Mormon history buff, you're nately, the Stereo WorldlAdded or bookcase. The author is a prac- going to enjoy The Savage View. Dimension lorgnette viewer does ticing eye surgeon in Ogden, Utah. Bradley W. Richards, M.D., has have the capacity to fuse such His book received the Editor's assembled a fascinating account of oversize pairs.] However, one of Choice Award from the Utah His- the life and times of Mr. Savage. those five is an interesting novelty torical Society. me This long-awaited biography and double exposure in which Savage photo montage features one of the and his friend wear hats in one foremost Western landscape pho- image but not the other. It's hard tographers of the 19th century. It's on the eyes, but presents an inter- quickly apparent that his is a life esting illusion. The-- Society and body of work well worth Beyond the visuals, the Savage (Continued from page 14) examining. story is deftly written and will The first two-thirds of this hand- hold your interest. The prominent Favorite Views somely crafted volume relate the photographer photographer lived 1 "Jeffery Pine" tale. The narrative is peppered out an Alger dream as he moved by Larry Moor with photos reproduced in minia- from common beginnings in Eng- 2 "Looking Down on Chimney Rock" ture that illustrate the progress of land to fame and near fortune on by Larry Moor 3 "Winter Pool" by Savage's life. The final third of the the American frontier. Tragically, a David Hutchison book consists of 47 full-page plates devastating fire destroyed the stock 4 "Pedicure & Pachyderm" showcasing a selection of beauti- of 12,000 negatives that he had by Richard Twichell fully composed and executed traveled 50,000 miles to record. photographs captured by Savage's One wonders about the legacy this Gamma Transparencv Circuit Total lens. man would have left, absent the Member 1st 2nd 3uoints Those of us who like to pop a conflagration. Allan Roe ...... 19 ...... 13...... 16.9 stereo pair into focus and crawl me Savage View is meticulously LeeRay Kuipers ...... 13 ...... 1 7 ...... 15 ...... 88 into a long departed scene will researched and documented. Much George Themelis ....11 ...... 13 ...... 4 ...... 63 of the narrative is drawn directly Dean Jacobowitz .... 13...... 7 ...... 7 ...... 60 have to be content to lose our- Ted Papoulas ...... 8 ...... 6 ...... 4 ...... 40 selves in our own collections from the photographer's journals Wolfgang Sell ...... 5 ...... 6 ...... 1 1 ...... 38 and letters. These vrovide wonder- Lattie Smart 111 ...... 5 ...... 7 ...... 6 ...... 35 ful insights into t6e conditions Joe Smith ...... 5 ...... 4 ...... 12 ...... 35 and perspective of the times. It's Charles Trentleman 7 ...... 4 ...... 4 ...... 33 Franklin Flocks ...... 7 ...... 5 ...... 1 ...... 32 remarkable to note how little the human character has changed in Favorite Views the face of sweeping alterations in 1 "Neon Tunnel" the circumstances of our lives. Sav- by George Themelis 2 "Misty Morning" age's detailed journals shed light by LeeRay Kuipers on little known events such as the 3 "Color" "Utah War", which barely preced- by Allan Roe ed the Civil War, and the "Wooden 4 "Hohen Schwan Gav" by Wolfgang Sell a@ Gun Rebellion" of 1870. Few of us

@ MayIJune 1996 STEREO WRLD News from the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library IIBR~RYREPORTTalbo t Crane Author-Author-Where are You? What Have You Written/ in 19th Century Photography, and An Blum (The Siege at Port Arthur), and Album of Stereographs (the latter John Waldsmith (Stereo Views-An Photographed Lately? with Richard Russack). Illustrated History and Price Guide). he Oliver Wendell Holmes Other authors on display include Three authors have shared their Stereoscopic Research Library Estelle and William Marder (Antho- theses with us. Harold Layer's sub- Tat St- 'Aa short hop ny: the Man, the Camera, the Com- ject was Stereoscopy: An Analysis of and a jump from pany), William Brey (John Carbutt: its History and its Import to Educa- phia) is the NSA's "official deposi- the Frontiers of Photo~aphy), tion and the Communication Process. for the literary accomplish- George H. MOSS,Jr. (Through TWO Rich Ryder authored Nature for the merits of Our many many and var- Lenses), Peter Palmquist (Lawrence Masses: Stereography at the London ied enthusiastic penlpencilltype- Houseworth~homas Houseworth and Philadelphia Zoos. Glenn writerlkeyboard writers in the & Company), Paula Fleming and Willumson's subject was Alfred A. stereoscopic of photography. Judith Luskey (North American Indi- Hart-Photographer of the Transcon- On Our shelves are a ans in Early Photographs), Eaton tinental Railroad. number publications Lothrop, Sr. (A Cenatry of Cameras), We know this is only a partial Cul~Darrah: The of stereo^^- Arthur N. Girling (Stereoscopic listing of publications among Our raplry, Stereo Views, Carte De Visite Drawing), Win Van Keulen (3-0 talented membership and appeal . Past and Present and 3-0 Images), to all writerslphotographers to NSA has established the Oliver Wendell Linda McShane (When I Wanted the share their publications with US. Holmes Stereoscopic Research Library, Sun to Shine), Roger Nazeley (View- We are interested, too, in projects located at Eastern College, St. Davids, PA Master Single Reels-VO~.I), Ron (Continued on page 23) 19087. This library offers to researchers a large body of information on the history, development, and continued applications of ...... stereoscopy. It contains early catalogs and "The Full Moon" by Thomas Atkins Cillam of Osborneville, N] was donated to the trade lists of stereo photographers and pub- Holmes Library by the stereographer. On the back of the view he notes: "The holy lishers, a collection of books and periodicals grail of astronomical stereoviews has been, for me, to capture the famed 'Full Moon' (both antique and current) on stereoscopy for myself. The stereo baseline is attained by taking the Moon's libration into account, and related photographic techniques, and a making the left and right views at different times, namely at the full moon during dif- large study collection of both antique and ferent months [9/7 9/94 and 2/7 4/95]. The two images were made with a Celestron modern stereo images. C-5 catadioptric telescope with a 7250 mm focal length at f7 0; the short ['/12sth sec.]

. ~ exposures did not require a clock drive. "

STEREO WORLD MayIJune 1996 @ Information on the Reel World Wolfgang & Mary Ann Sell William's Wonderful Wildflowers

n 1946, View-Master published the first of their educational Ibooks-Alpine Wildflowers of Western United States. The text was written by Park Naturalist Howard R. Stagner, who was employed by the U.S. National Park Service. Stereo photography was done by William B. Gruber. With 35 pages of text and ten reels, the book was not just an informal, authoritative treatise on flowers, but a fascinating 70-stop nature walk. Each step was pictured with glowing color and exquisite detail as shown through Gruber's wonderful three-dimensional photography. According to the books preface: "The magic of stereoscopic photography transports the reader to the Western mountain meadows and hillsides and spreads before him hundreds of rare and beautiful William Gruber with his custom stereo close-up rig. flowers." ...... Stereographs for this publication were taken at Mt. Rainier National Park, famous for having many flowers indigenous to Mt. Rainier that cannot be found in any other part of the Cascade mountain range. All of the flowers pictured could be found in a single after- noon, and lay within a mile radius of the Paradise Valley ranger station.

First version of the Wildflower book (right) and later smaller version (left) in front of The second version of the boxed set the original foil-labeled box with a Model C viewer. Note that the box lid uses the containing the smaller book, the ...... longer version of the title. reels and a Model C viewer.

@ May/lune 1996 STEREO WORLD In late July, hundreds of mid- season flowers are in bloom at one time. These plants bloom in the sub alpine flower zone. Many spring flowers remain and some early autumn plants are just beginning to bloom. These are the sights you see when viewing Alpine Wild- flowers of Western United States. William was a genius at knowing the Latin names for hundreds of species of wildflowers and kept his collection of stereo wildflower photographs cataloged by name and location. Unfortunately, many A good example of William Cruber's precise identification of his wildflower images, the of these wonderful photos were typed notation on the envelope holding this one reads: "Phlox diffusa.Benth. Phlox Fami- never dated so we can only assume ly/Mountain or spreading Phlox./ A freely branching, prostrate shrub, growing on the that they were taken during the slopes in the high altitudes above timberline. Flowers range from pure white to pink and early 1940s in preparation for the purple. Cascades and Siskyous to California. (Mt. Rainier Nat. Park, Wn)" The mounted 36mm x 40mm transparencies inside were cut down from larger sheet film for use in one publication of the Wildflower book. of Cruber's several cameras. An image similar to this appears as Scene 7 on Reel 8 of the The first edition of Wildflower Wildflower set. All flower stereos are from Gruber's original transparencies. reels was printed in the "hand let- ...... tered" styie with scene numbers superimposed in red over the scene captions. These ten reels are marked WF-1 through WF-10. They were initially sold in a special box with a foil label on top showing custom graphics and the title. A long, slender book containing Stagner's text (and titled Alpine Wild Flowers of the West) accompanied these sets along with a Model "C" View-Master viewer. We know of two examples of this book, one with a brown cloth coveringv and one with white cloth. This low-angle shot (or a variant of it) was probably used to help create the cover illustra- When Sawyers went to the stan- tion for the spiral bound version of Alpine Wildflowers of Western United States. A similar dard green and silver wave design view appears as Scene 7 on Reel 3 titled "Columbia Lily (Lilium Columbianum)". It's also for their various View-Master prod- known as Tiger Lily or Oregon Lily. Like many of the wildflower stereos, this original is on 828 Kodachrome (probably from Cruber's paired Kodak Bantams). The pair is mounted ucts, the box lid for the Wildflower (with tape) on a 6cm x 14.5cm cardboard mask. set was changed to match the ...... other products. The Wildflower gift set came with a smaller version of the original book (now titled Alpine Wildflowers of Western United States) and the ten Wildflower reels as well as a Model "C" viewer. Sev- eral color variations of this small book exist. We have personally seen covers made of red leatherette as well as green, blue, orange, aqua, and yellow cloth. The style of the reel face changed with later editions using standard printed numbers and captions. Wildflowers was also available in A stereograph similar to this original appears as Scene 1 on Reel 4 of the set with the title a spiral bound format and was ...... "Western Pasque Flower (seed pods). " intended to be part of a series of books planned by William Gruber enhances the beauty of this ver- contain 3-D images of assorted entitled Eyes of Knowled'qe. The sion. flora and fauna of the Pacific reels accompanying the spiral Gruber's favorite pastime was Northwest. A conservationist, he bound set are the standard printed hiking throughout the mountains loved communicating with nature style. A four-color dust jacket of Oregon and Washington. Many and could not find greater delight of his personal View-Master reels in life than sitting bare-chested on

STEREO WORLB Mayllune 1996 b) picture part and trace. To add to that picture and create a scene, turn the reel to another picture part or select a picture part from a different reel. Each reel has 14 different picture parts that kids can combine to create thousands of different drawings. They can also use regular View-Master reels to draw their favorite licensed charac- ters." Along with the SuperSketch Pro- jector come six View-Master reels - each with a different theme (i.e., Furrv Friends, Road Race, Colossal William Gruber admiring a yucca plant (Yucca Whipplei) bravely surviving in the Cascades, creatures), ten sheets of paper and far north of its normal range. This may be a self portrait as he is holding the dark-slide of a drawing pencil. At this time, the the film holder for this pair of 45mm x 50mm transparencies, evidently from a sheet of estimated retail price for this set is 4 x 5 film cut into fourths. $17.00. New View-Master packet titles to a mountain top observing nature's According to the company's watch for include an updated ver- glories. press release, "...using the Supers- sion of Spiderman, proposed pack- Additional published examples ketch Projector is easy. Simply ets for Disney's Hrinchback of Notre of William's wildflowers can be place one of the special View-Mas- Dame, the new Flipper movie, and found on two unique reels dated ter reels into the projector, select a 1948 entitled ore st Wildflowers Cascade Molrntains and numbered locket from the spiral bound version of Alpine Wildflowers of Western United States. X-1 and X-2. These experimental -77 rr *.I.' -.7, - .ys> r*ry- "-""?r" reels were developed after the publication of wildflowers and contain photographs taken by William Gruber, but differ from those found in the original book version. Alpine Wildflowers of Western United States is a popular View- Master item among collectors and nature lovers throughout the world. It remains a shining example of brilliant stereo photography performed by View-Master's own William Gruber. New View-Master Products New packet titles and an innova- tive new activity toy are coming to a store near you courtesy of Tyco Toys, Inc. A new character viewer and an example of some unique custom packaging highlight news from View-Master's scenic division. Scheduled to debut in June, 1996, the View-Master SuperSketch Projector is the offspring of Tyco's corporate design division. A new concept in using View-Master reels, this projection-drawing system lets kids make great looking pictures by mixing and matching different "picture parts." Although the new product is non-stereo, it is another interesting to utilize existing reels and create enthusiasm for View- Master among the younger generation.

@ MayIJune 1996 STEREO WORLD 1 101 Dalmations-a new live action movie debuting this fall. NSA member and View-Master photographer Charley Van Pelt brings us news from the scenic division. Six flags Amusement Parks have introduced a new character viewer-Tweety Bird. This first "custom designed" viewer is available only at Six Flags theme parks. Sea World now has unique View- Master packaging designed specifically for their theme parks. The four new blister packs feature Sea World parks in Florida, California and Texas as well as an updated Shows and Animals packet. These packets are sold on-site only and The custom designed "Tweety Bird" are available by themselves or as View-Master viewer available at Six part of a custom designed gift set. The View-Master SuperSketch Projec- ...... Nags theme parks. Each park's packet can be inserted tor with some of its non-stereo, directly into the gift card hanger to 14-picture reels. Regular VM reels packet as well. The Arch is a popular tourist attraction for folks set- give the set a "things you saw ...... can also be projected for drawing. while you were here" feeling. Each ting off for points west, and they gift set is accompanied by a blue spring of 1997. Six Flags hopes to hope to have the popular Bicen- model "L" viewer. commission more custom projects tennial packet Westward Expansion Along the same vein, custom assuming sales remain brisk. rerun and developed in the blister- packaging is being developed by Keeping busy, Charley has card format. Six Flags for next season. Along updated the photography on some Several other scenic sites are in with new photography, just com- existing titles as well. Hoover Dam development, and perhaps some pleted by Charley during a cross- has several new shots, and the Las new theme related viewers as well. country trip to all seven parks, the Vegas packet has all new photogra- Charley promises to give us new packaging will complement phy. A new packet featuring Port- updates as new products are devel- these new photos and is scheduled land, Oregon is in the works, and oped and released. me to be available at the parks in the the St. Louis Arch wants a new

continued pge .Library - Report-- --- ,. that are in process. This is an Other acquisitions came from tysburg by William A. Frassanito opportunity to reach out and the Chester County (PA) Historical and Mead B. Kibbey's The Railroad interact with other members. Society (W.H. Tipton Catalog- Photographs of Alfred A. Hart- The Holmes Library ideally 1891), Huck De Venzio (his pub- Artist. Also new at the library is reflects the wonderful diversity of lished article on The World's First Virtual Video viewed with Pulfrich our authors, 3-D photographers Tour of a Wood Treating Plant), viewers. and scientists in the field. Thomas Gillam (his stereo prints Please continue to support and of the full moon taken by him Copies Fine build upon the resources your with a telescope at two different Not just books are on the "want library has. Only with your help times of the year were displayed listv-we urge you to send along can the library holdings truly Delaware Valley Regional Meeting any and all types of 3-D material. reflect what the National Stereo- at the library in May), Freeman Photocopies of articles from publi- scopic Association is all about. Hepburn (the book Marching to cations would be welcomed if you War 1933 - 1939), Russell Rubert prefer not to part with originals. Recent Acquisitions (View-Master reels), Gary Mangia- Our mailbox is always open! Professional 3-D artistlpublisher copra (his article on dating and fil- Please help fill it, and the library's Ray Zone added significantly to ing of stereo slides), and Duncan resources. me the breadth of our resources by Woods of Cygnus Graphic (3-D donating a fine collection of 3-D book Another Dimension). comic books and other stereoscop- The Library's purchase fund has ic items he has produced over the acquired Early Photography at Get- last decade.

STEREO WRID MayIJune 1996 @ Current Information on Stereo Today David Starkman & john Dennis 3-D Set Includes "Make Your Own" Guide new, high quality folding stereoscope incorporating Athree different possible sets of 3-D images will soon be available in many retail stores thanks to the DaMert Company of San Leandro, CA, a major wholesaler of nature and science oriented toys and gifts. Each viewer includes 14 pairs of 47mm x 55mm images on two- sided cards perforated for separat- ing and inserting. Shown here is the Undersea Adventure set, which will share a display with a set on African Animals and one using NASA space images. If the viewer looks familiar, it's because this is a custom design incorporating features of current models from The Added Dimension, Inc. The side panels provide a rigid box for sure fusion of any images inserted, while a full length septum guaran- tees total separation of images as well as helping the side notches hold the cards in place. (The draw- back of the latter is that it can cast dent and the bodies of many fish photography. The current set, in a shadow on one image if lighting extend seamlessly from near to far fact, includes a blank card with isn't from directly above.) One planes. alignment marks and instructions additional and very useful refine- This isn't to say there are no on the back for "How to Make ment found on the DaMert viewer anomalies or "computer artifacts" Your Own Stereo Cards!" by using is a storage pocket inside the cover to be seen. The side and top of one weight-shift sequential photogra- below the scene captions for the Squirrelfish look sliced open as if phy and by ordering wallet size separated views. an over-eager sushi chef had been prints from the lab. If this results The quality of the images in the in the water with it. In other cases, in the creation of a new generation sample sent to SW was good, with glowing outlines and/or subtle of stereographers, almost any com- 300 line per inch printing and very ghost images reveal how these pic- puter manipulation or tomfoolery saturated (if not exaggerated) color. tures have been tampered with. could be forgiven (although a fine- If you quickly freeview these pairs One view of a Sheep Crab, on the print notice of "stereosynthesis" first, the surprise will come when other hand, is nearly perfect would have been a good prece- you pop one in the viewer. Rather despite the subject's complex struc- dent). than underwater stereos, these ture. More sophisticated software DaMert Company products can images are computer conversions will soon make this sort of effort be found at retailers like The of 2-D photos done at Craig easier and more common, raising Nature Company, Natural Won- Daniels' StereoType company in at least more questions if not actu- ders, Imaginarium and the Smith- Florence, OR. Craig calls the al controversy. sonian catalog as well as about process "stereosynthesis", and it While few of the kids who buy 7,000 other outlets. For a source of goes far beyond the cut-out effects or get these sets will notice how the 3-D Viewer sets ($6.95 retail) seen in 3-D comics or image-shift- the 3-D was achieved, it was close to you, contact the DaMert ed drawing conversions. Multiple encouraging to learn that future Company at (800) 231-3722 or planes of depth are instantly evi- sets will involve actual stereoscopic (510) 895-6500, fax (510) 895-5454.

@ MayIJune 1996 STEREO WORLD Specialty Stereoscopes from Australia by Lincoln Kamm ViewMagic viewer. These high tation skills. Includes ten color AIDS of Albany, Australia, quality viewers can also be used stereo photo pairs, 17 B&W Smanufactures a range of mirror with the company's collections of stereo photo pairs, one B&W and pocket stereoscopes. Their aerial and satellite hyperstereo oblique pair, and one B&W satel- instruments are being used by StU- pairs,. which include: lite stereo pair. dents and professionals in geogra- . Australian Landscapes in 30 (third Australia-A Continent From Space, phy, geology, surveying, environ- edition), a set of color and black shows the whole of Australia in mental science, and Earth sciences white images for students and 3-D and contains a manual on worldwide. I have personally used teachers of Earth sciences with satellite imagery along with the large viewer (the Geosco~e)for selected materials for map read- satellite pairs of specific sections viewing printed stereo pairs that inglanalysis and photo interpre- of Australia. are too large or too tall for the Australian Geology is an introduction to remote sensing instruments and techniques for students and teachers of Earth sciences. Images include six B&W stereo triplets, 11 B&W stereo photo pairs, and three color stereo photo pairs. The Geoscope Mirror stereoscope for viewing these large pairs won an Australian Design Award and is made of green ABS plastic with chrome mirrors, making it far less expensive than metal viewers with glass mirrors. A 1.2X magnification eyepiece comes with the Geoscope, and a 3X "binocular" is available as an option for closer study of specific areas of an image. Despite its size, the viewer weighs only 800 grams and folds into a case The Ceoscope Mirror Stereoscope with its standard 7.2X magnification eyepiece. The 350mm x 170mm x 60mm. entire unit folds into the case at the rear. According to the company, over 19,000 Geoscopes have been sold around the w&ld. Stereo Aids also markets two types of pocket stereoscopes for "stand-on-the-page" viewing of smaller pairs-a 2X and a 4X model. Both feature glass lenses, stainless steel legs, and 55mm to 75mm interpupillary adjustment. Unlike similar viewers marketed in the U.S. that use a pivot at the top center to make interpupillary adjustments, these allow the right lens panel to slide horizontally within the body of the viewer. For international ordering information and prices of various viewers, accessories and publications, contact STEREO AIDS, PO Box 5 161, The 2X Pocket Stereoscope from Albany 6330, Western Australia. STEREO AIDS would work well Phone +61 98 444 050. Fax +61 98 with book or magmine pairs in the 6 x 13 format, while the 4x 444 452. version could be used to view Email: most formats of stereo slides on a Some of the large stereo pair images [email protected] light table. available from STEREO AIDS in Aus- WWW: tralia. http://albany.jcr.net.au/-stereo Stereo Club of Southern California's First View-Master Exhibition 1 by Mttchell Walker Photo Travel Honorable Mention Ribbons he first view- aster Internation- al Stereo Sequence Exhibition Harry zur Kleinsmiede, The Netherlands Susan Pinsky, Culver City, CA T for People of Indonesia for Watts Towers for 1996 was held June 20, 1996 at the Brand Library in Glendale, CA. Best Scenic George May, Ellensburg, WA The selectors were Dalia Miller, for Washington's Encllantrnents Area Oliver Dean, Dominguez Hills, CA Frank D. Veenis, Aruba, View-Master expert and publisher for Early Morning at Yosernite of Inside 3-0 with her DDDalia for Oho, Island in the Sun stereo catalog from Corte Madera, Best Theme David Rhynas, Ottawa, Canada CA; Charles Van Pelt, renowned Christopher Olson, Burbank, CA for Galapagos Giants View-Master photographer of for Paramount Studio Tour There were also five other Glendale, CA; and David Berg, accepted reels, and we would like another renowned View-Master Stereo Club of to thank all those who entered and photographer from Portland, OR. Southern California helped make our first View-Master Each submission was restricted to Mitchell Walker, Pacific Palisades, CA Sequence Exhibition a success. The the seven stereo images on each for Penguins of the Antarctic prize winning and accepted reels reel, with captions read aloud dur- Best Stereo Story are being shown at the NSA Annual ing the judging. Awards were Convention in Rochester, NY in handed out in the following cate- George May, Ellensburg, WA for Mountain Biking August. For more information and gories: entry forms for next year's Exhibi- Gold Bronze tion, write to Christopher Olson, Robert Rloomberg, Forest Knolls, CA Robert Rloomberg, Forest Knolls, CA PO Box 8834, Universal City, CA for Hidden Stereo Treasures for Oaxacan Woodcarvings 91608, USA. and Mixed Menagerie Silver David Starkman, Culver City, CA his column deoends on readers for Rainer Lorch, Hermosa Beach, CA for Visions of Maine Tinformation, ('we don? kr row everythi~799 for boat in^ at Catalina Island Please send infor mation or qr vestions to C)avid Starkman, NewlSews Editor, P.O. Box 23c$8, Christopher Olson, Burbank, CA Culver City, CA 5'023 1. for Yosernite National Park San Diego in 3-D Poster an Diego has joined cities like buildings. This places the bottom sumers and provide them with the SNew York, Philadelphia, Boston, half of the view in front of the enjoyment that all of us members Pittsburgh and Hollywood in hav- window and the top half behind it, of 3-D groups already experience. ing its portrait done in the form of with the distant horizon far back. It is also critical for us to encour- an anaglyphic hyperstereo 3-D Interestingly, the wide separa- age the general public to learn and poster. This latest poster, the first tion of near and far points causes practice 3-D photography; our addition to this group in a few little if any ghosting. Some does objective is to foster the consump- years, is a product of Third Dimen- occur around the boats in the har- tion of 3-D products and to inform sion, Inc. of San Diego and shows bor and the black sides of several our consumers about 3-D tech- an aerial view to the north from new buildings, but for a color niques, especially in Latin Ameri- above a marina, including the con- anaglyph this 18 x 24 inch poster ca." vention center, hotels, downtown works quite well overall. (A black The poster is $5.95 plus airmail area, marinas and beaches. & white pair printed as a redlgreen shipping (U.S., Canada, Mexico A helicopter was used to gener- anaglyph would work better, but $3.00, worldwide $5.00). It ate the final stereo pair using a sin- color seems to be a must for mar- includes two pairs of anaglyph gle camera. Several consecutive keting purposes.) viewers and is shipped in a 20 inch shots were reviewed to find the According to Third Dimension mailing tube from Third Dimen- best stereo pair, which is estimated President Jose R. Hern5ndez, the sion, Inc., PO Box 4768, San to have a stereo base of about 50 company has "...the primary mis- Diego, CA 92164-4768, phonelfax feet. It took three helicopter rides sion of developing, implementing (619) 692-0234. to produce a suitable stereo pair. and marketing three-dimensional Web Site: The result shows impressive depth images to the general public. We http//www.electriciti.com/bajatour/foto3d from an altitude only slightly strongly believe that the world of rPPl above the tops of the highest 3-D needs to reach out to new con-

@ MayfJune 1996 STEREO UWRLD Mmn.,," """ I 1 1- T I IL~~~~~William H.

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,,,,,,,,, I,'"" I __- *- -( cholars as well as collectors will One should not expect this 56 -=&--== find William Henry Jackson-An page book to be illustrated with Annotated Bibliography 11862- Jackson's views or to be an exten- / s19951 to be the definitive bibliog- sive history about Jackson, but raphy of works done by and about rather to be a complete bibliogra- Jackson. Thomas H. Harrell, Ph.D., phy of sources concerning Jack- has done a thorough job of listing son's life and times. A brief sum- books and articles concerning one mary of his career along with a few of the west's most prolific photog- pictures leads the researcher into raphers. Harrell's years of compila- the main part of the book, a tion efforts for the book followed descriptive bibliography. Each his introduction to Jackson's work entry gives the book or article title, by his uncle Alan Jackson, grand- author, date of publication, pub- son of the photographer. lisher, and a description of the piece. eo

The Unknowns (Gmtinued/impge ,, Explore of October, 1871, and have since suspects it was taken in Cleveland. the World been torn down. The block at the Can anyone confirm this? right of the view was removed a The second view is possibly also of few years ago to make way for a Cleveland, a green card of a can- 3-D Imaging, project that never materialized, non and statue, with the label and is still vacant. Mr. Miller has "W.C. North, Cleveland, 0. Imper- Past & Present, the same view, labeled "Liberty ial Stereo. Views". Anyone recog- in Brand-Stereo Views, New Educa- nize this? tional Series" and "550 Washing- The third view is an orange card ton St. from State, Chicago, Ill." showing a group of imposing Donald Weber recognized the buildings, taken by "Simpson, Pho- STEREO view at the top of page 17 in the tographer, South Easton, Mass." same issue as the Main Building of Perhaps a college scene? L 1 3 Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Finally, an orange card dated Lima, New York, taken prior to 1874, by Leander Coan with the Only a year 1910. The structure still stands, title "The Jaws of the Gulf and the $26 and the view may be by Lima pho- Face in the Rock". This is reminis- from tographer EM. Bailey. cent of names given to rock forma- NATIONAL Our Unknowns this time were tions in the White Mountains of STEREOSCOPIC provided by David Wood. The first New Hampshire. Can anyone con- ASSOCIATION is a yellow card with a scene of a firm the location? fountain and church, blind- P.O. Box 14801 stamped "M. Liebich". Mr. Wood Columbus, OH 43214

STEREO WRLn Mayllunr I996 @ 3-REEL PACKET BUYOUT from CanadIan store. EMDE med~um,close-up masks, b~nders,frames, THE SEARY M-8 Reallst format heat sealer and Scarce Mint, Never opened EnglishIFrench lan- $14.95 each. Glass, 200 count, $39.95. Binder mounter 1s back. Beautifully cast and machined guage VM 3-reel packets produced by GAF and glass special, $49.95. Shipping additional. in the US to assure highest quality seals and (Canada) Ltd., c. 1977. A041-C Metro Toronto VISA, MasterCard accepted. S&D Enterprises, long life. Will take Pic-Mount heat seal mounts Zoo $25.; 03834 The Christmas Story, edition A 40604 N. Kenosha Rd., Zion, IL 60099-9341, which are readily available. 110V, AC, satisfac- $8.; B400-C Disney's Bambi, edit. A $8.; 8525-C (847) 731-3633. tion guaranteed. US prices: $225 plus $10 ship- Disney's Donald Duck, edit. A $8.; 6538-C Beep ping, 100 mounts only $10, 300 mounts $27 Beep, The Road Runner, edit. A $8.; H5-C Hors- JOHN WALDSMITH'S "Stereo Views, An Illustrat- (add $11100 mounts shipping). Write for foreign es $12.; H9-C (new) Mickey Mouse Club $8.; ed History and Price Guide" available signed prices or further info and picture. Send orders HI1-C Amazing Spider-man $8.; Postage: 1-3 from the author, $22.95 softbound, add $2.95 to: International Press Assoc., 100-E Highway packets $1; 4-6 pkts $2, 7 or more $3. John postage and handling. Please note: the hard- 34 - Suite 115. Matawan. NJ 07747. Waldsmith, 302 Granger Rd., Medina, OH bound edition is sold out. MasterCard, VISA and 44256, (330) 239-1944. Discover accepted. John Waldsmith, 302 UNUSUAL STEREO ITEMS for sale: Complete Granger Rd., Medina, OH 44256. camera viewer in classic 3Yz" size, includes ARTHUR GIRLING'S "Stereo Drawing - A Theory Kodak 1905 stereo with B and L Zeiss lenses, of 3-D Vision and Its Application to Stereo Draw- LOOKING FOR HARD TO FIND View-Master paks? compound shutter, adapted for 5x7 cut film use, ing". 100 pages hardbound 81h x 12. Stereo I have Mr. Lincoln, Old Time: San Francisco, including ikonometer finder, enabling hand use photographers are finding that the book applies Ships, Cars, Trains, Airplanes, Famous People, stereo in color. Also, 2x2 full frame stereo Singer equally to stereo photography and is a mine of World War I, Movie Stars, Stamps, History of projectors and homemade stereo viewer mount- information on methods of making 3-D pictures Flight, Civil War, Grand Old Opry. Some paks ing jig for correctly mounting in Wess mounts. and viewing them. Written in non-technical lan- never opened. If interested please call Wendell Also, full frame stereo views of Martin Luther guage and profusely illustrated with B&W draw- Foster, 522 E. Southern Ave., Springfield, OH trip to East and West Germany. Please send ings as well as 11 pages of superb anaglyphs, 45505, (51 3) 323-0973. $2.00 for 16 page catalog of many items I have this book is a must for the serious stereoscopist. MAINE PHOTOGRAPHICA BBS. Computer users! for sale. Send to: Glen Peterson, PO Box 1037, Now available from NSA Book Service, 4201 Access a list of stereo views, View-Master, Tru- Hartwell. GA 30643. Nagle Rd., Bryan, TX 77801. Price (including Vue, CDVs, Daguerreotypes, ephemera, equip- WOLLENSAWREVERE top quality achromatic postage) $19.00 USA, Canada. Overseas add ment, etc. available for immediate sale. Modem: $2.00 surface. $4.00 air. lenses, $15 ea. For viewer lens replacement or 207-582-0402,,,#22,#22,#22,#22 Wed-Sun experimentation. Halogen frosted bulbs. Will fit BOOK, The Siege at Port Arthur; hardback with loam-9pm EST. David Spahr SYSOP. in any stereo viewer (including Realist red-but- 3-D viewer, greatly reduced at $10 incl. seamail. NOW AVAILABLE, Realist lens cover springs, $9 ton, VM-D) and last for years. Uniform, bright, Add $4 for airmail. (Cash preferred). Ron Blum, pair, includes instructions and shipping. Send diffused white light. Transformers for battery- 2 Hussey Ave., Oaklands Park SA 5046, Aus- check, ZAK, RR2, Box 638, Oak Haven Circle, operated viewers. Adjustable, regulated, will tralia. Wautoma, WI 54982. power any 2.5V bulb. European-format (7-p) viewers for sale (Busch, Sterling, modified Real- CENTERFOLD STARS now available in all their OMNISCOPE VIEWER for large stereoscopic pic- ist1Kodaslide). Viewer repairs, 7-p upgrade, natural beauty in Realist format 3-D slide sets. tures or projected images from two identical parts, literature. Reasonable prices (Realist red- This is adult rated material, publication quality, projectors. Viewer is available in five different button up to $100). George Themelis, 10243 shot at the same time as photo sets for famous colors. No silver screen is necessary, no polariz- Echo Hill, Brecksville, OH 44141, phonelfax men's magazines. We stock color photos and ing filters in projectors or polarizing glasses are (216) 838-4752 (late eveningslmessage), 3-D slides of over 60 different amateur and pro- necessary. $20.00 - includes shipment. D fj8340Cleveland.Freenet.Edu fessional models. Sample Centerfold 3-D set of Smekal, 1765 Rosebery Ave., West Vancouver, 8 slides only $1 9.95,16 slides only $34.95, (add B.C. V7V 225, Canada. Fax (604) 922-2855. $4 for viewer). Free illustrated newsletter with order ($5 without order), we pay shipping. RBT STEREO MOUNTS: easy to use and re-use, 1904 ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR stereo vlews to These sets are hot, you must be over 21 to order plastic snap-together, five sizes, SASE for infos- complete my Underwood 55 card set. I need: or request information. Foreign orders add $3 ample to: Jon Golden, 16 Roundwood Road, #15 "An exciting skirmish in the battle of Colen- per set, U.S. funds only. International Press Newton, MA 02164 or leave address on so" (Boer War Exhibition) and #I6 "Explosion of Assoc., 100-E Highway 34 -Suite 115, Matawan, machine. (61 7) 332-5460. JooldenrroAOL.com an ammunition wagon during the battle of NJ 07747. STEREO REALIST f2.8 model ST-42 camera, Paardeberg" (Boer War Exhibition). Kathy Keller, Exc.+, $375; f3.5 model ST-41 camera, very 6009 Central, Kansas City, MO 64113, (816) early example (serial #A3177) with many minor 363-1 222. differences from later production, including ATHLETICS. Photos in any format of track & field port of the;r membershi p, NSA men~bers brighter plating, lens cover wlo front lip, original subjects (runners, jumpers, etc.) of 1865-85 ire offered fr ee use of clossified advertis- engraving on top plate, original focus knob period. Keith F. Davis, 51 W. 53rd Terrace, A: setup, etc. Exc., $165; TDC Stereo Colorist II ing. Members nlay use 100 words per y~par, Kansas City, MO 641 12. , ,. . ., , .. , diviaea inro rnree aas wirn a maxlmum of camera, with rangefinder, Exc.++, $245; View- 35 words per ad. Additional words and addi- Master Tyco model L viewer, all black, Exc.+, AUSTRALIAN VIEWS & 1950s 3-D comics for tional ads may be inserted at the rate of 20e $20; Nimslo DptiLite flash, Exc./Exc.+, $20. cash or trade. Many US, British, World views per word. Please include payments with ads. Mark Willke, 200 SW 89th Ave., Portland, OR available. All letters answered. W. Srnythe, 258 We cannot provide billings. Deadline is the 97225. (503) 297-7653. Cumberland Rd.. Auburn. NSW 2144. Australia. first day of the month preceding publication TDC PROJECTOR, wooden case, glasses $800; BICYCLING & CYCLING. All stereos, photos, date. Send ads to the National Stereoscopic Trade 45 issues Stereo World for camera. Art ephemera, medals, watches, memorabilia, etc. Association, P.O. Box 14807, Columbus, OH Faner, (503) 363-8193. Lorne Shields, 131 Beecroft Rd. #2408, Willow- 43214, or call (330) 239-1944. A rate sheet dale, Ont., M2N 6G9 Canada. phone (416) 733- for display ads is available u\ 3on request. 3777, fax (416) 733-9595. (Please send SASE.) COLLECT, TRADE, BUY & SELL: 19th Century KOREA WANTED! Stereo views, early photo- STEREO REALIST 1525 Accessory Lens Kit for images (cased, stereo, Cdv, cabinet & large graphs, old postcards, letters, etc. Also, stereo- Macro Stereo Camera; Realist 2066 Gold Button paper) Bill Lee, 8658 Galdiator Way, Sandy, UT views of Spokane, WA or by Spokane photogra- Viewer; Realist 6-drawer stereo slide cabinet in 84094. Specialties: Western, Locomotives, Pho- pher O.W. Watson Co. Contact Norman Thorpe, Exc.+ or better condition (must contain Realist tographers, Indians, Mining, J. Carbutt, Expedi- 6920 So. Meadows Road, Spokane, WA 99223, logo); Baja 8-drawer stereo slide cabinet with tions, Ships, Utah and occupational (509) 448-431 1. plastic drawers marked "Versafile". Mark Willke, 200 SW 89th Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) COLLECTING VlEWS of children and dogs or LONG ISLAND, NY collector seeking stereo views 297-7653. dogs alone, especially Kilburn. Send Xerox and and real photo post cards of Long Island. Also price. Carole Crowe, 326 W. Laurelwood, Rose- non-photo post cards from selected towns. Will STEREO VlEWS of American presidents from burg, OR 97470. send list. Joe Trapani, 61 1 Haig Street, Baldwin, Andrew Johnson to Teddy Roosevelt. Send NY 11510. xeroxes with prices to PO Box 33, Waccabuc, NY COLORADO TRAIN STEREO VIEWS, cabinets, 10597, or call (914) 666-8440 (w), (914) 763- CDV, glass negatives, large views. Specialties: LOUISIANA, NEW YORK CITY, and other stereo 3465 (h). Also wanted: Maine coastal views. Locomotives, trains, stage coaches, freight wag- views wanted, and daguerreotypes of children ons, street scenes, towns, occupational and with toys or just nicely tinted. Also interesting SUGAR! I am a sugarcane farmer and sugar pro- expeditions. David S. Digerness, 4953 Perry St., cameras, other images. Larry Berke, 28 Marks- ducer, and collect stereoscope cards with any- Denver, CO 8021 2, (303) 455-3946. man Lane, Levittown, NY 11756-51 10, (51 6) thing related to sugar, sugarcane, sugar mills, 796-7280. etc. Please write A. Boynton, PO Box 1428, Lox- CORTE-SCOPE VlEWS or sets, any subject or ahatchee. FL 33470-1438. condition. No viewers unless with views. John MAGIC: Photos, 3-0 views of magicians. Paying Waldsmith, 302 Granger Rd., Medina, OH top dollar. Terry Roses, 2715 Jefferson St., ULYSSES S. GRANT, images & information need- 44256. Duluth, MN 55812. ed for my collection & upcoming book. Please send copies with price or copies for my DISNEYLAND View-Master 3-reel sets and Tru- MARYLAND stereo views, also "Camp Life Army research. Will reimburse. Jim Bultema, 1634 El Vue sets wanted. Dou Veader, 10165 Snowy Owl of the Potomac" series. Send Xerox and price. Verano Dr., Thousand Oaks, CA 91362, (805) Way, Auburn, CA 95603. Allen Polianski, PO Box 1042, Pasadena, MD 374-2754. 21 122. EXTREMELY DISTRESSED, Badly Broken arcade VlEWS OF GLASS MAKING industry, glass exhibi- or cabinet style stereo viewers; sorry, not inter- MICHIGAN VIEWS, especially Kalamazoo and tions, glass blowing, etc. Send info and price to ested in viewers needing little or no work - send views by B.F. Childs. We are also seeking non- Jay Doros, 780 Chancellor Ave., Irvington, NJ info, price, photo to Ross Follendorf, 5541 W. scenics by H.H. Bennett. We can trade or buy. 071 11-2997. Lazy "S" St., Tucson, AZ 85713. Ken & Bonnie Williams, Box 458, Matlawan, MI 49071, (616) 375-21 50. WHALES, WHALING OR BOSTON HARBOR FLORIDA STEREOS of historical value, especially stereo views, including views of Fort Warren or Tallahassee, Tampa and Gainsville: Price and MUYBRIDGE VlEWS - Top prices paid. Also Galloupe's Island. Paul Barresi, PO Box 381771, describe or send on approval; highest prices Michigan and Mining - the 3Ms. Many views Cambridae. MA 02238. paid for pre-1890 views. No St. Augustine. Hen- available for trade. Leonard Walle, 47530 Edin- drickson, PO Box 21 153, Kennedy Space Center, borough Lane, Novi, MI 48374. WORLD WAR II VECTOGRAPHS & STEREO FL 3281 5. VIEWS: Also looking for general World War II NEWBURYPORT, MASS. stereo views by Mein- stereo views, especially air & tank warfare and HARDHAT DIVING WANTED! Stereo views, CDVs, erth, Moseley, Macintosh, Reed and others. Buy Great Britain views. Mike Province, 3116 Thorn cabinet cards, albumen prints, RP post cards, or trade. Scott Nason, 12 Marlboro St., New- St., San Diego, CA 92104-4618. glass negatives, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, buryport, MA 01950, (508) 462-2953. tintypes, etc. Also underwater photographs, div- YOU COULD HAVE told the world of your stereo ing helmets, pumps, shoes, etc. Gary Pilecki, OLD U.S. MINT, U.S. Treasury stereo views! High- neeeds in this ad space! Your membership enti- 617 Guaymas Court, San Ramon, CA 94583, est prices paid for stereo views I need of U.S. tles you to 100 words per year, divided into three (510) 866-0848. Mint, coining operations, paper money engrav- ads with a maximum of 35 words per ad. Addi- ing & printing operations, U.S. Mint interiors, tional words and additional ads may be inserted I BUY ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS! Stereoviews, exteriors from Philadelphia, San Francisco, New at the rate of 20& per word. Send ads to the cabinet cards, mounted photographs, RP post Orleans, Denver, Carson City, NV, Dahlonega, National Stereoscopic Association, P.O. Box cards, albums and photographs taken before GA, Charlotte, NC, mints, plus U.S. Treasury & 14801, Columbus, OH 43214. A rate sheet for 1920. Also interested in Xeroxes of Arizona Bureau of Engraving & Printing operations, display ads is available upon request. (Please stereographs and photos for research. Will pay Washington, DC. Please mail or FAX photocopy, send SASE for rate sheet.) postage and copy costs. Jeremy Rowe, 21 20 S. with price and condition noted. I'll reply within Las Palmas Cir., Mesa, AZ 85202. 48 hours. Attn Dave Sundman, c/o Littleton Coin Co., 646 Union St., Littleton, NH FAX 603-444- I COLLECT VlEWS OF SAN DIEGO, California in 3512, (est. 1945). Realist or View-Master format! Contact Dave Weiner, PO Box 12193, La Jolla, CA 92039. REVERE or Wollensak camera body - or camera with broken shutter. Need badly - will buy or I'M LOOKING FOR the following 1950s Realist trade. Gil Van Horn, PO Box 207, Llano, CA Permamount slides from "The Realist Library of 93544. Scenic Stereo Originals": 206, 402, 410, 411, 412, 413, 504, 805, 900, 901, 902, 907, 910, SAN FRANCISCO STEREOS, ETC. Need pre-1906 91 8, 91 9, 921, 922, 929, 3000, 31 00, 31 05, Nob Hill mansions and/or views by Weed, 3111, 3112, 3113, 4000, 4001, 4002, 4100, Watkins, Taber, Muybridge, others. Michael D. 4101, 4901, 4903. Mark Willke, 200 SW 89th Lampen, 310 Union St., San Francisco, CA Ave., Portland, OR 97225. (503) 297-7653. 941 33. INFORMATION WANTED on history of Bruguiere, SINGLE VIEWS, or complete sets of "Longfellow's France. Any listings available for their 45 x 107 Wayside Inn" done by D. C. Osborn, Artist, Ass- slides (12 per box)? Please reply in English or abet, Mass., Lawrence M. Rochette, 169 Wood- VSA mc hip fold 1-c French. Hans Middendorp, G.P.O. Box 2056, land Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752. dvailaDle rrvm Dhaka, Bangladesh. Email: , olp.hansQdrik.bgd.toolnet.org STEREO DAGUERREOTYPES; all kinds, all PO Box 14801, nations & subjects. Any condition. Ken Appollo, nbus OH 43214. PO Box 241, Rhinecliff, NY 12574, (914) 876- 5232.

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August 10 (NY) August 25 (NJ) September 18-23 (Germany) Buffalo Photorama USA Show & Sale, Hearth- Meadowlands Camera Show, Meadowlands Photokina '96 - World Fair for Imaging, stone Manor, 333 Dick Rd., Depew, NY. Con- Hilton, Secaucus, NJ. Contact Photorama Cologne, Germany. Contact Messe- und tact Photorama USA, 20219 Mack Ave., USA, 20219 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods, Ausstellungs, Ges.m.b.H Koln, Messeplatz 1, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, (313) 884- MI 48236, (313) 884-1955. D-50679 Koln, Germany. Phone 0221-821-0 1955. September 2-7 (Az) Fax 0221 -821-2574. August 11 (OH) Photographic Society of America national con- September 22 (CAI 27th Cleveland Photorama USA Used Camera vention, Tucson, AZ. Always an enthusiastic Central Coast Camera Show, South County Show, Brook Park Armory, 6225 Engle Rd., contingent of active stereographers and a Center, 800 Branch St., Arroyo Grande, CA. Brook Park, OH. Contact Photorama USA, stereo projection program. Contact Richard Contact Bill McBrideIBill Hood, Box 1511, 20219 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods, MI Frieders, FPSA, Conventions VP, 1305 Fox- Pismo Beach, CA 93448, (805) 481-6860. 48236, (313) 884-1 955. glove Dr., Batavia, IL 60510. September 29 (vA) August 11 (NJ) September 7-8 (MI) Barone Camera Swap Meet, Holiday Inn Crys- Second Sunday Camera Show, Firemans Hall, Detroit Photorama USA, Dearborn Civic Cen- tal City, 1489 Jeff Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA. Parish Drive, Wayne, NJ. Contact Second Sun- ter, Dearborn, MI. Contact Photorama USA Contact Camera Swap Meet c/o Barone & Co., day Camera Show, 25 Leary Ave., Blooming- 20219 Mack Ave., Grosse Point Woods, MI Box 18043, Oxon Hill, MD 20745, (703) 768- dale, NJ 07403, (201) 838-4301. 48236, (31 3) 884-1 955. 2231. mm

August 17 (MD) September 8 (IN, I Baltimore-Washington Camera Show & Sale, Camera & Computer Swap Meet, Century Cen- Pikesville Hilton Inn, Baltimore, MD. Call (410) ter, South Bend, IN. Contact Roger 1 Upcomina National 653-1 100. SmithlHeirloom Images, 8863 E. Black Point August 18 (vA) Rd., Syracuse, IN 46567, (219) 856-3863. Washington Camera Show & Sale, Holiday Inn September 8 WJ) Tyson's Corner, 1960 Chain Bridge Rd., Second Sunday Camera Show (see July 14). McLean, VA. Call (703) 893-2100. August 18 (CAI 1 Bellewe, ' Buena Park Camera Expo, Sequoia Club, 7530 Orangethorpe Ave., Buena Park, CA. Contact Bill Bagnall, 4044 Germainder Way, Irvine, CA 9271 6, (71 4) 786-6644. August 18 (PA) Photo Flea Market held by Pennsylvania Photographic Historical Society, Radisson Hotel-Pittsburgh, 101 Mall Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Contact Jane Tarr, (412) 828-9487 or (412) 828-9285. August 18 (NY) 3-D Catalog New York City Camera Show, The Park Inn, 440 West 57th St., Manhattan, NY. (201) 478- 1980. August 24 (CAI D Supplies for Stereographers San Diego Camera Show & Sale, Al Bahr Shrine Temple, 5440 Kearny Mesa Rd., San 0 3-D slide viewers Diego, CA. Contact Anton at Bargain Camera 0 Print stereoscopes Shows, PO Box 5352, Santa Monica, CA 90409, (310) 578-7446. 0 3-D slide mounts August 24-25 (CAI Summer Photo Fair, San Mateo Expo Center, 0 3-D slide mounting supplies 2495 So. Delaware St., San Mateo, CA. Con- El Books about 3-D & in 3-D tact Photo Fair, PO Box 32932, San Jose, CA 95152, (408) 251-91 97. August 24-25 (m) Visit our World Wide Web Catalog at Miami Camera Show, Ramada Inn Miami, 1950 W. 49th St., Hialeah, FL. Contact Nancy http://www.Sd-web.com/reel/reel3d. html Green, PO Box 11267, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33339, (954) 564-1 022. I Reel 3-D Enterprises, Inc. August 25 (CAI P.O. Box 2368 Burbank Camera Show and Sale, Aeronautical District Lodge, 2600 W. Victory Blvd., Bur- Culver City, CA 9023 1 USA bank, CA. Contact Anton at Bargain Camera Shows, PO Box 5352, Santa Monica, CA Telephone: + l (3 10) 837-2368 90409, (310) 578-7446. Fax: +I (3 lo) 558-1653 PRECISION FOLDING STEREO VIEWER For all standard HASSLE-FREE 3-D Realtst 3D stereo slides. Glass or cardboard WITH THE TECO-NIMSLO mounted. Folds flat, CAMERA AND 3-VIEWER wetghs only 1 oz. Prepatd mtnimum order Use the lightweight auto-exposure $10.00. Add $1 .OO for camera to make: sh~pp~ngand handltng. 36 Slide pairs FREE CATALOG AVAILABLE Close-ups at 3 distances Lenticular Prints m ORDER CALL TOLL FREE 800-223-6694 , Use the Universal viewer to display: Realist and View-Master rollfilm Nimslo/Nishika rolls TAYLOR MERCHANT CORP. 212 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Mounted slide pairs PRICES: New camera ...... $145 *Your Nimslo modified (UK) ... $63 Close-up attachments CDV (3 38' X 4 318') per 100: $7 case of 1000: $60 CDV POLYESTER (2-mil ) per 100: $10 case of 1000: $90 6", 12", 30" dist's (ea) ..... $29 CDV PAGE 6-pocket top load per page: $0.50 case of 100: $20 Opti-Lite flash ...... $29 POSTCARD (3 34' X 5 34') per 100: $8 case of 1M)O: $70 POSTCARD PAGE Cpocket top load per 100: $16 case of 500: $70 Eveready case ...... $1 2 4' x 5' per 100: $8 case of 1000: $70 Teco 3-Viewer...... $87 STEREO 1 t634 COVER (3 34' x 7') per 100: $9 case of 1000: $80 STEREOPOLYESTER per 100: 2-mil $12 or 3-mil $16 Add $3 shipping per order. CABlNETlCONTlNENTAL (4 38' X 7') per 100: $10 case of 1000: $90 Calif. residents add 73/4% sales tax. # 10 COVER (4 318' x 9 518') per 100: $10 case of 500: $45 5' x 7' per 50: $7 case of 200: $25 BOUDOIR (5 112' X 8 112') per 25: $6 case of 500: $80 MFD. BY: 8' x 10' per 25: $8 case of 200: $40 TECHNICAL ENTERPRISES ll'x 14' 10: $8 case of 100: $45 1401 Bonnie Doone 16' x 20' (unsealed flap) g: 10: $20 case of 100: $99 Corona Del Mar, CA 92625 Russell Norton, PO Bx 1070, New Haven, CT 06504-1070 Tel. 714-644-9500 US SHIPPING: $4 per order. Institutional billing. (1996) 800-903-TECO

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t (Etc.) These auctions include fine STEREO CARDS Ranging in price from bulk lots View-Master,strong in both U.S.A. at 25 cents per card, to single-card lots at hundreds of and Belgium-madereels, packets, dollars per card. 1 also handle viewers, Richard glass etc. I'll handle any 3-D format includingTru-Vue and views, full-size glass views, tissues, cased images, boxed cards, Meopta reels & Realist format slides. I also handle sets, and more (from g5Os to 930~). cameras and other equipment.

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APuMbtknd NATlONAL ew-Master inventor William Cruber admires a yucca plant (Somehow sur- mREOXOPlC Vviving in the Washington Cascades) during one of his 7 940s trips shoot- ASSOCIATION, INC. ing stereos for the View-Master book set Alpine Wildflowen of Western Unit- ed States. Some of his original image pain for the project and the story of the wildflower books appear in this issue's View-Master Column pn wge 3"