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Photo # NH 82654-A: USS Louisiana arrives at New York City with troops from France, 1919

Online Library of Selected Images
ART TOPICS -- Stereoscopic Images

This page provides links to the Picture Data sheets for every stereoscopic image posted on the Online Library. These pictures, mounted in pairs on cards about seven inches wide and three inches high, provide a three-dimensional effect when seen through a stereograph viewer. They were a popular means of education and entertainment during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

At this time the Online Library's stereo pictures mainly date from the 1860s to the early 1900s, with a few later images. The larger "online stereo pair image" of each item has been sized to permit use of prints in a stereograph viewer. Though the posted digital image quality will not be as good as that of higher-resolution photographic reproductions, it should still be sufficient to demonstrate the three-dimensional effect present in most of them.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the Photo Numbers below to access Picture Data pages.
In those pages, click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of one frame of the image,
or on the phrase "stereo pair version ... photo #" to access the stereograph view.


Stereo Pair images from before the 1890s:


Stereo Pair images from 1890 through 1897:


Stereo Pair images from the Spanish-American War era, 1898:


Stereo Pair images from after 1898:


NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    New images added 7 January 2009