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"Biddy and the Mouse"

Object/Artifact

A collection of one hundred seventeen stereographic view photographs on card stock of various domestic scenes, comic situations, historic places, natural views and views from Scotland, Berlin, Japan and England. Each card has two photographic scenes from a dual lens camera that provide a stereoscopic view when viewed with a stereoscope. At a dining room table; a man it sitting on the left with his hand draped over his head; a women in the back is standing with her food on the table; the women on the right is standing on her chair; the women in the front in on the floor looking under that table.

2008.005.190.9

Beulah Marshall Bailey Collection

1897 - 1901

Manufacturer's Mark

Front/Back

Various: Underwood & Underwood, Publisher New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas. World Series Frontier Photographic Co., Niagara Falls, N.Y. S.A. Wood, Manager

English

Stencilled

Communication Artifacts

Photographic prints

Stereographs

Photographs -- Trimming, mounting, etc

3-1/2 in

1/16 in

7 in

117

Cardboard

Gelatin

Silver

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