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KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY

• AN H.C. WHITE COMPANY STEREOSCOPE WITH
  AN H.C. WHITE COMPANY STEREOSCOPE WITH ASSORTED CARDSAn H.C. White Company stereoscope with assorted cards, Circa 1900 Marked: The Perfecscope Trade Mark U.S.A.; further stamped: Exposition Universelle Internationale 1900 The metal stereoscope with japanned copper flash finish and foldable wood handle, accompanied by four boxes of stereo-optic cards from publishers Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, Strohmeyer & Wyman, and others, filed in sections demarcated by hand-written labels: Parks, Americana, Europe, Oriental, Presidents, Portraits-Minor, Photographica, Lepers + Near East, Cuba/Caribbean, Photo-Influence, Humorous -HA!, Beautiful-No Mas, Pictorialism, and War Dimensions: Stereoscope: 8" H x 6.875" W x 12.5" D; each card: 3.5" H x 7" W approx. Provenance: The Estate of Dr. Amy Conger
• KEYSTONE SCHOOL STEREOSCOPE Keystone
  KEYSTONE SCHOOL STEREOSCOPE Keystone School Stereoscope, made in the U.S.A by Keystone View Company. 11" L.
• Quantity of Stereoscope Slides of Prize
  Quantity of Stereoscope Slides of Prize Winning Cattle, Toronto (Canadian) National Exhibition and New York State Fair, Keystone View Company, c.1909 62 slides numbered consecutively accompanied by a 'Stereo Graphoscope' viewer slides 3.5 x 7 in — 8.9 x 17.8 cm
• LOT OF 52 STEREOVIEW CARDS.Lot of 52
  LOT OF 52 STEREOVIEW CARDS.Lot of 52 Stereoview Cards by Keystone View Company. Condition: : Good. Condition: Condition: : Good.
• VINTAGE NOVELTIES INCL. STEREOVIEW SLIDES
  VINTAGE NOVELTIES INCL. STEREOVIEW SLIDES AND BOOKS1st item- Civil War Related Book: "The Boys of '61 of Four Years of Fighting: Personal Observations with the Army and Navy" by Charles Carleton Coffin, copyright 1881, published Boston and Lauriat, 1 5/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 8 3/4" L. 2nd item: Vintage Santa Claus cube puzzle, "The Night Before Christmas," in original box, by McLoughlin Bros, NY, 2 3/4" H x 11" W x 13 3/4" L, together with 4 vintage offset color lithograph story pages (all with condition issues), 12 5/8" x 11". 3rd item: Ringling Bros Comic Book, "Cinderella", copyright 1916, 9 1/2" x 7 1/2". 4th item: Hinged white metal candy/butter/soap mold in the shape of a calla lily, raised manufacturer mark "S & Co, 210" with PAT info., 3 1/4" H x 4" W x 4" D. 5th item: Stereo viewer with collection of thirty-eight (38) slides. 6th item: Collection of Magic Lantern slides, approx. 45. 7th item: Cased collection of glass Keystone View Company educational slides, all group by category. Some categories include, Seasons, Geography, Food, Plants, Animals, Transportation, Training for Citizenship, and more. Over 100+ slides total. All early 20th century. Provenance: Gatlinburg, TN collection. Condition: 1st - 4th item: General wear and toning to paper. Mold with surface grime. 5th item: Some general wear to slides, overall very good condition. 6th item: Wear/losses to some slides. 7th item: Collection not a complete set. General wear to case and to paper dividers between slides.
• (3) STEREOVIEW SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS
  (3) STEREOVIEW SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS LINDBERG(3) Keystone View Company stereoview photos of Charles Lindberg & the Spirit of St. Louis. All are in very good condition with no rips, tears or photo loss. All photos have old prices written in pencil on backs. See photos for more details on condition. Dimensions: 3 3/8" x 7". shipping info This lot can be shipped in-house.
• (4) STEREOVIEW NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS(4)
  (4) STEREOVIEW NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS(4) Keystone View Company stereoview photos of Native Americans. (2) photos (duplicate) of Blackfeet Indians village near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana. (1) photo of Indian warriors in council and (1) photo of cowboy & Indians talking in sign language. All are in very good condition with no rips, tears or photo loss. One photo has a bit of paper loss on the back corner, all photos have old prices written in pencil on backs. See photos for more details on condition. Dimensions: 3 3/8" x 7". shipping info This lot can be shipped in-house.
• KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY GLASS LANTERNSLIDESCOLLECTION
  KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY GLASS LANTERNSLIDESCOLLECTION OF KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY GLASS LANTERNSLIDES, scenes from the U.S. and abroad, outside dimensions of slides are 3-1/4" by 4". More than 270 slides total.
• STEREOPTICON WITH UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD
  STEREOPTICON WITH UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD STEREO VIEWS OF ITALY Circa 1900, the viewer, card case and stereo photographs made for the Keystone View Company, their brochure included.
• GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: EUROPEAN CITIES
  GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: EUROPEAN CITIES AND LANDSCAPES, INCLUDING THE BRITISH ISLES, AS WELL AS THE AMERICASGROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: EUROPEAN CITIES AND LANDSCAPES, INCLUDING THE BRITISH ISLES, AS WELL AS THE AMERICAS, [Photography] containing approx. 200 stereoviews of Europe, focusing on the British Isles, Italy, Germany, Austria, Greece, Spain, France, and Switzerland, as well as Australia, and some Russia and the Americas. Makers include, Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, J.F. Jarvis, "Cosmopolitan Series," Strohmeyer & Wyman, L. Meder, Griffith & Griffith, "Foreign Series," some colored, some unlabeled
• GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: SCANDINAVIA, FINLAND,
  GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: SCANDINAVIA, FINLAND, NORWAY AND LAPLANDGROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: SCANDINAVIA, FINLAND, NORWAY AND LAPLAND, [Photography] approx. 175+ cards, various dates and makers, including Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, J.F. Jarvis, T.W. Ingersoll, American Stereoscopic Company, Viking View Company, The Universal Photo Art Company, and others, some unlabeled; depicting scenery, folk life, historical events
• GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: WASHINGTON, DC
  GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: WASHINGTON, DC AREA, MINNESOTA, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AMERICAN REGIONALISM AND DAILY LIFEGROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: WASHINGTON, DC AREA, MINNESOTA, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AMERICAN REGIONALISM AND DAILY LIFE, [Photography] approx. 50+ views of Washington, DC, and the DC-Area, and 50+ views of Minnesota, with assorted views of the United States, children and scenes of daily life, African Americans, Niagara Falls, New York, The Moon, makes include Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, Strohmeyer & Weyman, and J.F. Jarvis, A.D. White, some unsigned
• GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: U.S. PRESIDENTS,
  GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: U.S. PRESIDENTS, PROMINENT PEOPLE, WITH STEREOVIEWERGROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: U.S. PRESIDENTS, PROMINENT PEOPLE, WITH STEREOVIEWER, [Photography] approx. 100 stereoviews, U.S. Presidents from Benjamin Harrison to Herbert Hoover, one image of Ulysses Grant as General, most views are of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, many duplicates; most by Underwood & Underwood, Keystone View Company, Griffith & Griffith, Strohmeyer & Wyman. The remaining images of prominent Europeans, royalty, World War I generals, and some prominent Americans, including a stereoview of Thomas Edison with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone. With stereoviewer by Keystone View Company and dated 1904 and 'Monarch'
• GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: INDIA, CHINA,
  GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND THE NEAR EASTGROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN AND THE NEAR EAST, [Photography] approx. 125+ views, including scenes of Japan, nine from the 'Cosmopolitan Series,' and China, India and the subcontinent, along with scenes from Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Egypt, and Syria, a majority printed by the Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, J.F. Jarvis,; scenes of daily life, scenery
• GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN
  GROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WARSGROUP OF STEREOVIEWS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WARS, [Photography] approx. 175+ stereoviews from the following wars: U.S. Civil War, most taken after the war, The Boer War, Spanish-American Wars, Boxer Rebellion, First Sino War, and World War I. Large portion of group are World War I images, including Vol. 1 of the Stereographic Library, World War through The Stereoscope by the Keystone View Co in slipcase; for the remaining views, makers include Keystone View Company, Underwood & Underwood, Griffith & Griffith, J.F. Jarvis, Strohmeyer & Wyman, the remainder various makers, some unlabeled, a few Boxer Rebellion views colored. A large selection of Civil War views are 1978 reproductions.
• Antique Keystone View slide card filing
  Antique Keystone View slide card filing cabinet. Locks on front. 12 sliding drawers inside. Plaque on front of door reads ''Keystone View Company''. Condition: wear and age as expected some cracks to wood no key for lock see images. Measures 21'' tall x 21'' wide x 17.5'' deep. Shipping weight 60 lbs.
• Collodion Glass Negative From Abraham
  Collodion Glass Negative From Abraham Lincoln's Last Sitting Descended in the Family of M.P. Rice Alexander Gardner (1821-1882). ?Stereoscopic glass plate collodion negative 4.25 x 7 in. approx. .0625 in. thick the right panel etched Copyright by M.P. Rice 1891.This seated portrait of the President was taken February 5 1865 in what is generally acknowledged as the last sitting made in Gardner's studio. ?While not an unknown image -- the great Lincoln collector Lloyd Ostendorf cataloged the sitting as O-116?-- the negative was assumed to have been lost. ?Descended directly in the family of photographer Moses Parker Rice the current negative may signify otherwise. ?It is clearly a true stereoscopic and not "pseudoscopic?negative." ?The left and right images are laterally reversed and must be separated and remounted to produce a stereoscopic photograph. ?This suggests that the negative is probably not a copy.Little is known of Moses P. Rice and his photographic career. In his biography of Alexander Gardner Katz (1991: 276-277) notes that Rice apparently arrived in Washington D.C. in 1861 from Nova Scotia. ?He is not listed as a photographer until 1865 when he appears in the city Directory for the District of Columbia as working in the studio of J. Orville Johnson. While it is unclear if Rice ever worked for Gardner during the War years there is little doubt that at some point he gained access to his negatives.Welling ?(1976: xiv-xv) reprints a 1953 reminiscence of Charles Bender a scrap silver dealer who ?purchased thousands of original glass plate negatives from photography studios in many major U.S. cities beginning around the turn of the 20th century. ?Importantly Bender claims to have bought nearly 90 000 "Brady" negatives through Moses P. Rice. ?Gardner's negatives were also acquired though unlike Brady's which were stored in Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. his were found in a warehouse in Brooklyn. All were scrapped for their silver content.The present stereoscopic negative was not the only Gardner Lincoln negative Rice had access to. ?Beginning in 1891 Rice began marketing another Gardner portrait of Lincoln taken on November 8 1863 (O-77). ?Rice issued this portrait many times using different papers and in varying sizes often bearing a printed caption indicating that the print was made from the original unretouched negative (an example of this portrait as a cabinet card with this information sold in these rooms December 6-7 2007 Lot 3394). ?Rice later claimed to have exposed the original?negative. ?Based upon the image quality of this portrait it seems entirely possible that Rice in fact owned the original negative. ?While Rice issued prints made from the larger O-77 negative over and over there is no evidence to suggest that he issued a single print from the stereoscopic negative offered here. ?Perhaps the negative size was too small to enlarge. ?More likely there was little demand for stereoscopic prints.By 1891 stereoscopic photography was already falling out of favor with the American public. ?With the rise of the amateur photographer the stereoscopic market came to be dominated by a handful of companies who developed national and even international markets. ?The most important of these the Keystone View Company of Meadville Pennsylvania eventually gained a monopoly. ?Had Rice wished he might have sold the present stereoscopic negative to that company who marketed many "educational" sets to school and other civic groups. ?In fact by at least the first decade of the 20th?century Keystone was already publishing at least three retouched Lincoln negatives. ?Why add another?While the precise origins of this important negative are unknown one can surmise that given Rice's association with the other negative which he copyrighted in the same year this may be the original long-lost Gardner negative. Probable Line of Descent:Alexander Gardner Moses P. RiceRobert Creighton RiceKathryn RiceKathryn Rice TurnerThence by descent to the present owner
• UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD NY C.1890: GUN
  UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD NY C.1890: GUN AND TROPHY ROOM Toned silver print. This company was founded by brothers Elmer and Bert Elias Underwood in 1881 in Kansas. They moved to Baltimore and then New York in 1891. Known primarily as merchandisers of stereoscopic and other photographic images. They introduced the concept of selling boxed sets of photos with specific themes such as world travel. By 1910 they entered the field of news photography. In 1920 they discontinued their stereograph production and sold off the stock and rights for 30 000-40 000 images to Keystone View Company. In 1924-5 Underwood & Underwood took the first aerial photographs of the new cities of Miami and Miami Beach documenting the first building boom of southern Florida which was subsequently destroyed in the hurricane of 1926. The firm ceased to exist in the 1940's. Provenance: Property from the Collection of Gerald Kornblau. 12 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. 19 1/8 x 22 in. (frame).