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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6447954, member: 19463"]Underwood and Underwood that made the rrdenarius card was one of the two big stereoview companies that survived into the 20th century. The other was Keystone that made Donna's cards. Each published cards in sets including a world tour of 1000 views sold largely by door to door salesmen in the same manner as Fuller Brushes and vacuums in the first half of the 20th century. Smaller, specialized sets of 25 to 100 illustrated 'Egypt', 'Rome' and hundreds of other subjects that the family might use to educate children or remember past travels. They peaked about the turn of the century and declined rapidly as movies and radio took over entertainment dollars. These later cards were mounted on curved stock that stood straighter in the viewers and helped correct the curvature of field of the cheap lenses used in the viewers. I was a big fan of the earlier cards on flat stock with albumin prints made from wet plate negatives starting in the 1850's and out of fashion by 1890 or so. There are also really cheap cards with screened printed images that sold for 1/10th the price of those with real photos but that gave very poor stereo effect. Professional photographers sold them in racks like later were popular for post cards depicting every subject imaginable. Victorians held parties where they showed off their card collections. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256382[/ATTACH] </p><p>I stopped buying many of them about the time I started doing my coin website partly because the prices were then increasing at an alarming rate. Like coins, the prices varied by condition, artistic quality and subject interest. Like coins, old photos can be purchased in the form of modern copies (fakes) on eBay for more than the real thing brought thirty years ago. The highlight of my collection is what I believe to be the earliest photo of an ancient coin (shown on CT several times begging someone to show me to be wrong).</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/sterphot.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/sterphot.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/sterphot.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6447954, member: 19463"]Underwood and Underwood that made the rrdenarius card was one of the two big stereoview companies that survived into the 20th century. The other was Keystone that made Donna's cards. Each published cards in sets including a world tour of 1000 views sold largely by door to door salesmen in the same manner as Fuller Brushes and vacuums in the first half of the 20th century. Smaller, specialized sets of 25 to 100 illustrated 'Egypt', 'Rome' and hundreds of other subjects that the family might use to educate children or remember past travels. They peaked about the turn of the century and declined rapidly as movies and radio took over entertainment dollars. These later cards were mounted on curved stock that stood straighter in the viewers and helped correct the curvature of field of the cheap lenses used in the viewers. I was a big fan of the earlier cards on flat stock with albumin prints made from wet plate negatives starting in the 1850's and out of fashion by 1890 or so. There are also really cheap cards with screened printed images that sold for 1/10th the price of those with real photos but that gave very poor stereo effect. Professional photographers sold them in racks like later were popular for post cards depicting every subject imaginable. Victorians held parties where they showed off their card collections. [ATTACH=full]1256382[/ATTACH] I stopped buying many of them about the time I started doing my coin website partly because the prices were then increasing at an alarming rate. Like coins, the prices varied by condition, artistic quality and subject interest. Like coins, old photos can be purchased in the form of modern copies (fakes) on eBay for more than the real thing brought thirty years ago. The highlight of my collection is what I believe to be the earliest photo of an ancient coin (shown on CT several times begging someone to show me to be wrong). [URL]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/sterphot.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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