Item 2018.09.02.061 - Wooden hand held stereoscope viewer (unknown)

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Wooden hand held stereoscope viewer (unknown)

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2018.09.02.061

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One piece of photographic viewing equipment : stereoscope ; 20 x 32 x 17 cm

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Item is a wooden handheld Holmes style stereoscope. Handle bends back onto viewer. Hood of viewer is lined with red velvet. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the sliding card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images overlap to mimic a three-dimensional effect.

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Viewer is beginning to separate from rest of wooden structure. Velvet lining damaged from age.

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Collected by the late Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass and donated to the Ryerson University Library and Archives by Gail Bass in 2018

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