Underwood & Underwood
Dates
- Existence: 1882 - 1941
administrative history
Underwood & Underwood was a stereograph and photography producer and distributor. The company was established in Ottawa, Kansas in 1882, moved to New York in 1887, and ceased operations in the 1940s.
Underwood & Underwood was established in 1882 by Elmer and Ben Underwood in Ottawa, Kansas. The company originally focused on distributing Eastern photographers' stereographs in the West through a network of door-to-door salesmen. In 1887 the headquarters of the company were moved to New York, though manufacturing continued to take place in Ottawa with the building of a plant in 1891 to manufacture stereographic cameras, stereoviews and stereoscopes. By 1901 Underwood & Underwood was a leader in stereographic image production and distribution. In 1920 the company divested itself of its stereograph productions, selling their stock and rights to the Keystone View Company. Underwood & Underwood ceased operations in the 1940s.
Citation:
Its Maps and plans accompanying Washington through the stereoscope, c1903-c1904: map recto (Underwood & Underwood, publishers, N.Y. & London)Journal of Mormon History, Fall 1992: p. (est. 1882 by Elmer and Ben Underwood in Ottawa, Kan.; distributed Eastern photographers' stereographs to the Western market with door-to-door salesmen; est. plant in Ottawa by 1891 to manufature stereo photographic cameras, stereoviews and stereoscopes; moved their headquarters to New York City, opened branch offices in Baltimore, New York, and Liverpool; by 1901, Underwood & Underwood was manufacturing packaged sets of stereo views--25,000 a day (more than seven million a a year), and 300,000 stereoscopes a year)
Wikipedia, Mar. 9, 2012: Underwood & Underwood (early producer and distributor of stereoscopic and photographic images; early news bureau photography; company moved to New York, N.Y. in 1887; stereograph production stopped in 1920, stock and rights sold to Keystone View Company; ceased business in the 1940s)
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
B. L. Singley and Underwood & Underwood spirit stereographs
Collection includes two stereoviews of photographs that were double exposed to give the illusion of a spirit. Underwood & Underwood produced one photograph and B. L. Singley produced the other.
Collection of stereographs
Collection includes sixty-six stereographs, with images of locations and events from around the world. Images include the Semi-Centennial Utah Jubilee in 1897, London, England, the Columbian Exposition in 1893, the Panama Canal, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, India, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Jerusalem, France, New York, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, California, Ohio, and Colorado. There are also many images of people, including a set of four entitled "The Halloween Party."
The haunted lovers, 1893
Stereoview of a double exposure of a woman in a dress and a couple that give the illusion of a spirit. Image was produced by Underwood & Underwood of Littleton, New Hampshire in 1893.
Underwood and Underwood stereographs
Underwood & Underwood photographs of Mount Sinai
Collection includes three photographs of Mount Sinai and manuscripts of biblical texts.
Underwood & Underwood stereo views and stereoscope of Palestine
Underwood & Underwood stereographs of South Africa
Collection includes 108 stereographs with images of the Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902. The stereographs are housed in three small cases, with captions on the back of the cards in six languages.
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- Collection 6
- Archival Object 1
- Subject
- Stereographs 4
- Photographs 3
- Images 2
- Albumen prints 1
- Christianity 1
- Couples -- Photographs 1
- Europe -- Photographs 1
- Ghosts -- Photographs 1
- Halloween -- Photographs 1
- India -- Photographs 1
- Jerusalem -- Photographs 1
- Judaism 1
- Latter Day Saint churches -- Historic sites 1
- Latter Day Saint churches -- History -- Pictorial works 1
- Manuscripts -- Photographs 1
- Material Types 1
- Palestine -- Photographs 1
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Photographs 1
- Religion 1
- Sinai, Mount (Egypt) -- Photographs 1
- South Africa -- Photographs 1
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Photographs 1
- Spirit photography 1
- Stereoscopic views 1
- Stereoscopic views -- Specimens 1
- Trick photography 1
- United States -- Photographs 1 + ∧ less