Guided Tour

Return to Search »
Compare with Another Print

from the group: Wet Plate Collodion

Select a New Process: X

Pre-photographic

Intaglio
Planographic
Relief

Photomechanical

Collotype
Letterpress
Offset Lithography
Photogravure
Rotogravure
Woodburytype

Photographic

Albumen
Ambrotype
Bromoil
Bromoil Transfer
Carbon
Carbro
Chromogenic
Collodion POP
Cyanotype
Daguerreotype
Direct Carbon (Fresson)
Dye Imbibition
Gelatin Dry Plate
Gelatin POP
Gum Dichromate
Instant (Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Internal Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Matte Collodion
Platinum
Salted Paper
Screen Plate
Silver Dye Bleach
Silver Gelatin DOP
Tintype
Wet Plate Collodion

Digital

Electrophotography
Inkjet
Thermal

view fullscreen

Notes on this view:

This negative was produced to create a stereocard, which consists of two images of the same object taken from slightly different views to create a three-dimensional effect. To make a stereoview negative, photographers utilized a special two lens camera to capture the subject from two angles roughly 2 ½ inches apart to replicate binocular vision. The resulting prints were then mounted on a card for parallel viewing. People looked at the cards through stereoscopes, devices that cause each eye to view its corresponding image separately and then shifts them together, creating the illusion of depth. Stereocards were a popular form of entertainment from the mid-1800s and into the 1930s.