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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
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Notes on this view:

This stereoview is an example of a paper stereo transparency, also known as a hold-to-light stereocard or French Tissue. Stereoviews consist of two images mounted to board for parallel viewing. Images were usually taken with a special two lens camera to capture the subject from two points of view roughly 2 ½ inches apart to replicate binocular vision. Prints were viewed through a stereoscope, a device that causes each eye to view its corresponding image separately then shifts them together creating the illusion of depth. Stereocards were a popular form of entertainment from the mid-1800s and into the 1930s.

This object is a specific type of stereocard mounted in a window mat to be viewed with transmitted light. These were introduced in France in 1853 and rapidly achieved popularity within the country (and less so internationally) that lasted until the turn of the century.