Stereoscope Find

[Kathymarie3392]

Stereoscope Find! A little dusty but cool images!

 

[Kathymarie3392]

I'll have to look through to see if there are any from the Civil War!

 

[Kathymarie3392]

Hmm nothing Civil War so far. I feel like I need to go search and see if I am missing some. I have W1-W100 with a few missing here and there. Then a bunch of T200s and then it jumps to T500 I will go back on the search to find the missing ones!

 

[James N.]

Hmm nothing Civil War so far. I feel like I need to go search and see if I am missing some. I have W1-W100 with a few missing here and there. Then a bunch of T200s and then it jumps to T500 I will go back on the search to find the missing ones!

I know relatively little about these, although I have three Civil War examples. They are well-documented, however, and authentic ones can be identified by the color and thickness of the card stock on which they are mounted. These that are mounted on relatively thick orangey card stock are postwar but of wartime subjects. As I recall, genuine wartime-made ones were on thinner stock of a yellowish color and are rarer and more desirable today. I quickly recognized yours and that particular set is today very common because thousands of them were printed ca. 1920 in the aftermath of the Great War when parlor stereopticons were at the height of their popularity and it seemed everybody must have had a set of them.

 

[chubachus]

I'll have to look through to see if there are any from the Civil War!

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Keystone republished a few Civil War era stereo photos in the early 1900s, but they are pretty rare. If you come across a stereoview portrait of Abraham Lincoln, it would be a great find worth upwards of $100. You might find some stereoviews of veterans or battlefields which are always pretty neat.

 

[DixieRifles]

I know relatively little about these, although I have three Civil War examples.

Fort Hell. My brother was stationed at Fort Lee and lived in Petersburg, VA. I remember seeing a sign about Fort Hell when I visited him in the 1960's.

 

[James N.]

Fort Hell. My brother was stationed at Fort Lee and lived in Petersburg, VA. I remember seeing a sign about Fort Hell when I visited him in the 1960's.

Fort Hell was a tourist trap during the 1960's when I visited there. It was really very interesting because you could wander all through the remains of the fort and trenches and in the gift shop buy all sorts of excavated relics like shell fragments, etc. Naturally, soon after my visit since it was on a modern street corner lot it was leveled and became a gas station!

 

[DixieRifles]

Fort Hell was a tourist trap during the 1960's when I visited there.

That is pretty much how I remembered it, even though I didn't see much except the exterior.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Very cool find!

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=stereo

LoC's collection seems extensive- quite a few ACW. Sometimes you have to download the tif and crop them to see them better.

 

[Belle Montgomery]

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Fort Hell was a tourist trap during the 1960's when I visited there. It was really very interesting because you could wander all through the remains of the fort and trenches and in the gift shop buy all sorts of excavated relics like shell fragments, etc. Naturally, soon after my visit since it was on a modern street corner lot it was leveled and became a gas station!

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[chubachus]

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Fort Hell was a tourist trap during the 1960's when I visited there. It was really very interesting because you could wander all through the remains of the fort and trenches and in the gift shop buy all sorts of excavated relics like shell fragments, etc. Naturally, soon after my visit since it was on a modern street corner lot it was leveled and became a gas station!

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So sad, wish I could have seen it in person!