Collection of travel stereographs
Scope and Contents
Contains 17 stereoviews of places in Europe and the United States. Places include Oregon, Arizona, California, Illinois, Washington D.C., Athens (Greece), St. Louis (Missouri), Norway, Moscow (Russia), England, Germany. Fourteen of the stereoviews were published by the H.C. White Co.; two were published by Richard Behrendt and one was published by B.W. Kilburn.
Dates
- Creation: approximately 1893-1905
Creator
- Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909 (photographer, Person)
- H.C. White Co. (photographer, Organization)
- Behrendt, Richard (photographer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research. Kept in cold storage; access requires 24 hours advance notice.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Collection of travel stereographs must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Administrative History
"Information on the H. C. White company is remarkably scarce, considering that they were among the top studios of their day, exceeded only by the Keystone View Company and Underwood & Underwood in volume and by nobody in quality. Hawley C. White, who described himself expansively as photographer, publisher, and inventor, started his career with an establishment in New York City for grinding spectacle lenses in 1870. In 1874 he moved to North Bennington, VT. and set up a small factory for producing stereoscopes." -- www.stereo-camera.org
Biographical / Historical
Between approximately 1906-1930, Richard Behrendt was a publisher, importer, and seller of novelties, postcards, stereoviews, toys and greeting cards based out of San Francisco, California. Postcards published under his name had a wide variety of styles and subjects, but they often featured the West Coast, particularly California.
Extent
1 folder (0.08 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
These items were donated to Special Collections in 2007.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donation; Howard C. Bybee; 2007.
Appraisal
Photographs (Photograph Archives).
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Register of Collection of travel stereographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lucy Brimhall
- Date
- 2013 April 9
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States