World's Fair - Paris 1900
This has been in our family for a long time. It's now past down to my son.
I remember this as a kid but didn't think to ask about its history. Now my mom is gone and my father has no memory so I guess we'll never know.
The insignia on the top says "Exposition Universelle Internationale. Paris 1900.
It looks like one of the original 3D view masters and has a number of picture cards from various places. The card shown here is of someplace in portugal.
Each card has 2 identical pictures. When you look through the lenses it is 3D, though I'm not sure how.
(Thanks to Susan Littlefield for her description below!)
14 responses
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Matthew Hunziker gave props (3 Jul 2009):
Neat!
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Regenia Brabham said (3 Jul 2009):
We had one when we were little. It belonged to my adopted father's parents and they were very old. It had a bunch of pictures to go with it. Very cool.
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JOE FAILK gave props (3 Jul 2009):
Now that's a gadget! Great shot.
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Susan Littlefield gave props (3 Jul 2009):
Priceless! It's a Stereoscope, popular in the late 1800's. A stereoscope is composed of two pictures mounted next to each other, and a set of lenses to view the pictures through. Each picture is taken from a slightly different viewpoint that corresponds closely to the spacing of the eyes. The left picture represents what the left eye would see, and likewise for the right picture. When observing the pictures through a special viewer, the pair of two-dimensional pictures merge together into a single three-dimensional photograph
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Maura Wolfson-Foster gave props (4 Jul 2009):
I have always loved stereoscopes.......fabulous entry!!!!!!!
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Leslie Hunziker added a link (4 Jul 2009):
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eithne mythen gave props (4 Jul 2009):
Super gadget and great description Susan..
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John Linton gave props (4 Jul 2009):
All killer, no filler (as they used to say about great record albums).
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Carol Curtis gave props (5 Jul 2009):
Cool "gadget", nice story, and a good shot.
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Litz Go gave props (5 Jul 2009):
wow! great gadget and thank you for posting it and for the info. awesome
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Troy Snow said (17 Jul 2009):
Very cool! I'd love to find something like this. I thinks it's great you've kept it in the family.
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Karen Roberts Foto Fiddler gave props (28 Jul 2009):
I absolutely love this entry!
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Quenby Sheree said (16 Aug 2009):
Those things are so awesome. If I had a disposable income I'd buy one and start a collection.
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Craig Gardner said (24 Oct 2009):
You can make your own cards very easily by the first pic then shit to the right about 1/30th the distance to your nearest object and take the second photo then use a program called StereoPhoto Maker to load and align the images and print them as cards the software is FREE
http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/index.html
I have been shooting stereo photos for about 6 years now and have a twin camera rig that will capture action shots. It's a great way to capture a moment in time
