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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Carpenter & Westley
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Dallmeyer, J. H. (John Henry), (1830–1883)
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Nachet, Jean Alfred, 1831–1908
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Negretti & Zambra
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P. and J. Dollond
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R. & J. Beck (Firm)
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Smith, Beck, and Beck
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Books
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19th century
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optical instrument
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stereoscope
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image-projecting equipment
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camera lucida
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stereoscopic photograph
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photograph
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recreation
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graphoscope
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peepshow
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stereograph
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stereographoscope
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camera obscura
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chromolithograph
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engraving
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landscape
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magnifiers (lenses)
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magnifying glasse
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optical toy
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peep egg
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wood engraving
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Artists' tools -- Specimens.
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Microscopy.
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Peep shows -- Specimens.
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Abbotsford (Scotland)
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Chatsworth (England)
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Dilston Castle (Dilston, England)
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France -- Pictorial works.
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Grand tours (Education)
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Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Italy -- Pictorial works.
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Kilbourne, Frederick Wilkinson, 1872– -- Bookplate.
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New Hampshire -- Pictorial works.
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Optical instruments.
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Photographs -- Inspection.
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Russia -- Pictorial works.
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Stereoscopic views -- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)
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Thames Tunnel (London, England) -- Pictorial works.
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Tunnels -- England -- London.
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Waterfalls -- New Hampshire.
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Great Britain
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France
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Italy
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New Hampshire
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Russia
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Thames Tunnel (London, England)
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Weymouth (Dorset, England)
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White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)
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Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset
ca. 1855
2
Camera lucida
late 19th century?
3
Negretti & Zambra
Stereographoscope
ca. 1875
4
Gems of American scenery
1878
5
Smith, Beck, and Beck
Binocular magnifying glass
between 1857 and 1865
6
Carpenter & Westley
Camera lucida
late 19th century
7
Microscope camera lucida
approximately 1850?
8
Fenby's patent Panteidoscope
[ca. 1885]
9
Dallmeyer, J. H. (John Henry), (1830–1883)
Stereoscope
approximately 1870
10
Brewster stereoscope
late 19th century
11
R. & J. Beck (Firm)
Achromatic stereoscope
not before 1865
12
Nachet, Jean Alfred, 1831–1908
Microscope camera lucida
1880s?
13
Stereographoscope
late 19th century?
14
Monocular opaque glass viewer enclosing a print showing the Thames Tunnel
approximately 1843
15
Stereoscope
late 19th century
16
[Camera obscura]
[mid-19th century]
17
P. and J. Dollond
Camera lucida
early 19th century