Wounded 20th Kansas Soldier Stereoview c1899 Philippine American War Photo B2139 for Sale

Wounded 20th Kansas Soldier Stereoview c1899 Philippine American War Photo B2139 For Sale

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Wounded 20th Kansas Soldier Stereoview c1899 Philippine American War Photo B2139:
$24.95

"One of the 20th Kansas Boys wounded on the Battlefield, P. I." (13391)

Published by Benjamin West Kilburn (1827-1909). Benjamin is well known for his photojournalism, stereoview publishing company, the invention of a photo gun camera, as well as search and rescue work on Mount Washington.

This is a stereoview (also known as a stereograph or stereoscope card). It was one of the first forms of 3D photography. The images were captured with a special stereoscopic camera, which had two lenses - simulating the view of our left and right eyes. The two, nearly identical pictures were then mounted next to each other (most commonly on a piece of cardstock, glued on as photographs or printed as lithographs). The image could then be seen in three dimensions when viewed through a device known as a stereoscope, stereopticon, televiewer and/or realisticscope.

Standard-size stereograph, measuring about 3.5 x 7 inches.