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Rare Books and Manuscripts
25
Creator
Carpenter & Westley
1
Claymore Co. (Cedaredge, Colo.)
1
Dallmeyer, J. H. (John Henry), (1830–1883)
1
Nachet, Jean Alfred, 1831–1908
1
Negretti & Zambra
1
P. Berville (Paris, France)
1
P. and J. Dollond
1
R. & J. Beck (Firm)
1
Smith, Beck, and Beck
1
Underwood & Underwood
1
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1790
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2017
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
25
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
21
Free to Use
4
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Unavailable
20
Available
5
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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25
Creator Gender
unknown
25
Period
19th century
16
20th century
4
21st century
4
18th century
1
Work Type
optical instrument
25
image-projecting equipment
10
camera lucida
9
stereoscope
8
photograph
4
stereoscopic photograph
4
recreation
3
graphoscope
2
peepshow
2
stereograph
2
stereographoscope
2
camera obscura
1
chromolithograph
1
engraving
1
flip book
1
gelatin silver print
1
magnifiers (lenses)
1
magnifying glasse
1
motion pictures (visual works)
1
mutoscope
1
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Artists' tools -- Specimens.
10
Microscopy.
2
Peep shows -- Specimens.
2
Abbotsford (Scotland)
1
Amusements.
1
Bates, Joseph L., 1806 or 7–1886.
1
Chatsworth (England)
1
Cinematography -- Equipment and supplies -- Specimens.
1
Computer input-output equipment -- Specimens.
1
Dilston Castle (Dilston, England)
1
France -- Pictorial works.
1
Grand tours (Education)
1
Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
1
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
1
H.C. White Co.
1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809–1894.
1
Horse racing.
1
Italy -- Pictorial works.
1
Optical instruments -- Specimens.
1
Optical instruments.
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Great Britain
4
France
1
Italy
1
Russia
1
Thames Tunnel (London, England)
1
Weymouth (Dorset, England)
1
Associated People
Bates, Joseph L., 1806 or 7–1886
1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809–1894
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alfred Young
1
Language
English
8
No linguistic content
6
French
4
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Underwood & Underwood
Sun Sculpture stereoscope
not before 1901
2
Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset
ca. 1855
3
The Kinora
[1911?]
4
Camera lucida
late 19th century?
5
Negretti & Zambra
Stereographoscope
ca. 1875
6
R. & J. Beck (Firm)
Achromatic stereoscope
not before 1865
7
P. Berville (Paris, France)
Camera lucida
approximately 1900
8
Claymore Co. (Cedaredge, Colo.)
The stereoscope
ca. 1980?
9
Stereographoscope
late 19th century?
10
Zograscope
late 18th century
11
Smith, Beck, and Beck
Binocular magnifying glass
between 1857 and 1865
12
NeoLucida
[2017]
13
Microscope camera lucida
approximately 1850?
14
Fenby's patent Panteidoscope
[ca. 1885]
15
Nachet, Jean Alfred, 1831–1908
Microscope camera lucida
1880s?
16
NeoLucida
[2014]
17
Carpenter & Westley
Camera lucida
late 19th century
18
Dallmeyer, J. H. (John Henry), (1830–1883)
Stereoscope
approximately 1870
19
Brewster stereoscope
late 19th century
20
P. and J. Dollond
Camera lucida
early 19th century
21
Monocular opaque glass viewer enclosing a print showing the Thames Tunnel
approximately 1843
22
NeoLucida XL
[2017?]
23
[Camera obscura]
[mid-19th century]
24
Stereoscope
late 19th century
25
Optimix Pix viewer
2016 or 2017