Figure 1.--This studio cabinet card shows a boy named Bert La Salle in 1890. Note the stereo viewer and stero cards on the table. It is used as a prop because it was so common in Victorian parlors. The portrait was tken at the Hotchkiss Atelier in Norwich, New York. Bert wears a jacket with some Norfolk styling, note how it is worn unbuttoned except at the top. It is a knee pants suit worn with black long stockings.

We are not sure when they first appeared, but them seem more or less ciontempraneous with the CDVs. We note steroscopes being shown in exhibits durung the 1850s. We are not positive about just when stereo photography and the stereoscopic viewer were developed. The earliest example we have is from England in the mid-1850s, a Daguerreotype of an unidentified family shot as a studio portrait. . Dag portraits were expensive and thus the general public could not afford them. They were not feasible for the general public until albumen processing was developed. Thus we do not see commercial versions until the 1860s. We note many more stereo portraits in the 1860s with the development of negative-based photography. And we note the stero viewers as studio props throughout the remainder of the 19th century. And this did not end with the turn of the 20th century. I can recall plastic stereoviewers with colored images in circuklasr discs in the 1950s.

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