Stereoscopic Photograph Card (British Birds - Long Eared Owls)

Stereoscopic photographs was developed in the middle of the nineteenth century. It uses

two image of the same subject taken from slightly different positions. When the images are

viewed together through a stereoscopic view they merge to form a three dimensional

image. Stereoscopic images became very popular from the mid-nineteenth and early

twentieth century, in the mid 1850s it was estimated that over a million homes owned a

viewer. Sets of stereoscopic images were mass produced, with subjects including

geographical views, comic images or scenes from plays or history.

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