Preferred Citation:

World War Through the Stereoscope, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, William & Mary Libraries.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase

Processing Information:

Accessioned and processed in May 2009 by special collections staff. Rare book catalog record created by Content Services, May 2009.

Scope and Contents

100 photographic prints on stereo cards (stereographs, b&w ; 9 x 18 cm. in case 19 x 19 cm) from the Keystone View Company's Stereographic Library Series (Rare Book Call No. D522 .W67). The slides were produced in 1923, but the photographs were taken from 1914-1921.

The stereoscopic views depict World War I scenes with lengthy captions (on back of cards). Included are images of battlefields and trenches, armaments, cavalry, buildings, hospitals and cemeteries, dirigibles, German prisoners, and Treaty of Versailles. Mainly images from France, but also Belgium, Germany, Turkey (Gallopoli), London, training in the U.S., ships at sea, and one view of submarines, battleships, and torpedo boats in San Diego Bay.

(Mss. Acc. 2009.178)

Related Material

Dr. Kelvin Ramsey Collection of Stereoviews (MS 00009), Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Keystone View Company Collection Tour of the World (MS 00008), Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Stereoscopic photographs
• World War, 1914-1918--Pictoral works

General

Other Information:

Described in the Swem Library online catalog under Call No. D522 .W67