Stereoviews
| Stereoviews were very
popular at the turn of the century. And
considering how very few years the Victorian Cliff House existed, there were a
surprisingly large number of stereo photographs taken… |
"20562 Sunday Afternoon on the Beach - towards Cliff House and Seal Rocks"
International Stereograph Co., copyright 1906, C. L. Wasson
Courtesy of Frank Mitchell
Same image as above but different cropping
Courtesy of Frank Mitchell
"Cliff House and Seal Rocks SF CAL, Olaf P. Larson"
billboard in distance: "Hunter Rye" (link)
from Ocean Beach...
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Courtesy of Frank Mitchell |
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| Library of Congress image (link) | Online Archive of California (link) | |
by moonlight...
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from Sutro Heights...
amateur views...
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| July 9 1904 (reverse) |
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| J.H. Turney & Co |
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| Sequence taken during a storm, Mar 13
1905 |
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| "April 29 - 03" (rev) | JJ Reilly | |
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glass stereoviews
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Glass stereoview, courtesy of Thomas Anschütz Much/Germany
Exhibit link (German)
(English)
More on August Fuhrmann's invention (German)
(English)
Still more: (German)
(English)
"Ship Entering the Golden Gate, San Francisco, Calif."
Later (1909) Cliff House
If you have a pair of those blue/red 3D glasses, here's a movie showing
stereoviews converted to anaglyphs