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Description
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Photographs show general views of cities, towns and villages, daily life and occupations in urban and agricultural settings, prominent monuments and landmarks, archaeological sites and ancient buildings, religious rites and processions. The collection is especially rich in images of landscape and environment., Title and date from item., Stereo cards are housed in a telebinocular box ,accompanied by a 1908 booklet "Jerusalem through the stereoscope" by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, providing detailed information on each stereograph view. Each stereo card is stamped "Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. New York ; London ; Toronto-Canada ; Ottawa-Kansas. Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J.", numbered, and captioned. Features "Sun Sculpture, U&U" trademark. On the back of the cards, the caption in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian), together with additional descriptive text., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.00437, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i15801743, BIB-ID: 1017562, See Hannavy, John, ed., Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York: Routledge, 2008. |
