Multnomah Falls (1903)
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Holmes stereoscopes were popular family pastimes.
(Wikimedia)
This 1903
stereograph card view
shows a person admiring
Multnomah Falls. Stereographs are viewed on a
stereoscope, which
displays slightly offset
left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, thus creating
the appearance of
a single three-dimensional image. The affordable stereoscopes and stereograph cards
were a very popular part of the culture in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many people were avid stereograph card
collectors and stereoscope shows were often a centerpiece of family and
social gatherings.
Image source: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. Multnomah Falls, Columbia River, Oregon. Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-9c84-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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