In the late 1800s, the stereograph — sometimes incorrectly called a stereopticon — was a big craze. You’d view two side-by-side images through some lenses and see a three-dimensional image. This, of ...

If you walked into Charles Herzog’s classroom last spring, you’d have seen a peculiarly modern sight: middle schoolers all staring into virtual-reality gear. Their bodies, officially, were at Flood ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Four stereographs showing stereo photographers at work: (1) "Taking a View for You & U," copyright 1893 by J. F. Jarvis, Washington, D.C. (little ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection consists of lantern slides and stereographs produced by several companies: Keystone View Company, Better America Lecture Service, ...

A stereograph consists of two images placed side by side — one for the left eye and one for the right. When viewed through a stereoscope, the images merge into one, giving an illusion of depth, or ...

How did armchair travelers see the world a century ago? One popular option was the stereograph, a type of 3-D photo. (The card, with two nearly identical side-by-side photographs, gave the illusion of ...

A stereograph of the Maine Central Railroad Station in Lewiston about 1875. New York Public Library’s Robert N. Dennis Collection LEWISTON — Back when photography remained a newfangled wonder — Oliver ...

Digging your 3D TVs, video game consoles and laptops? Thank the past -- the New York Public Library is here to remind you that streographic entertainment has been blowing minds for over 100 years, and ...