Keystone View Company Stereoptican Views Photograph Collection
Collection ID
PC-14
Collecting Areas
Description
Collection Summary
Title
Keystone View Company Stereopticon Views Photograph Collection
Dates
Circa 1900
Collection ID
PC-14
Creator
Keystone View Company
Quantity
1 linear foot (1 box)
Repository
Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries
Language
Materials in English.
Detailed Collection Information
Historical Note
The Keystone View Company, located in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and founded in 1892, sold and distributed stereographic images. By 1905 it was the largest stereographic company in the world. In 1963 Keystone became a subsidiary of Mast Development Company, and in 1972 Mast closed the Meadville manufacturing site.
Description of Collection
This collection contains 194 Stereopticon views from the Keystone View Company. Images depict various activities around the world, although few locations are identified. Includes two views of Philadelphia school gardens, cutting ice with a saw in Pennsylvania, and corn husking on a New Jersey farm.
Patron Information
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Temple University’s online library catalog: http://diamond.temple.edu/record=b1715498~S30
Research Access
Collection is open for research.
Collections Stored Off-Site
This collection may be housed off-site at the Library Depository, and require up to two business days to retrieve. Please review the finding aid and be prepared to identify specific materials to be retrieved. Contact the Special Collections Research Center in advance of your visit, so that materials may be relocated to the reading room for research.
Publication and Copyright Information
The Keystone View Company Stereopticon Views Photograph Collection is the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Keystone View Company Stereopticon Views Photograph Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Donated by Esther R. Miller, February 11, 1991. Originally received as part of the Fellowship House (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records (Acc. 723).
Processing Information
Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in June 2015.
Index Terms
The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in Temple University’s electronic catalog:
Corporate Names:
Keystone View Company
Subjects:
Lantern projection
Slides (Photography)
Material Types:
Photographs
Stereopticons
Inventory
4 Playing soldier
5 Seesaw with a barrel and a ladder
6 Blindman's bluff
7 Wash day
8 Playing tea party
9 Playing with a toy train
10 Down the hill on sleds
11 The Christmas tree and toys
12 Playing Indian
13 Making toys that go
15 Sailing toy boats
16 Boy scouts in camp
19 Jenolan caves, New South Wales, Australia
20 Minnehaha Falls, MN
24 Waterfall near Vossevangen, Norway
25 Mount Hood, looking southwest from Cloud Cap Inn
26 Bar Harbor from Scott's Hill, Mount Desert, ME
27 Manhattan Island, NY, as seen from an airplane
28 The Matterhorn, Switzerland, glimpses of Swiss life in the valleys
29 The whirlpool rapids from steel bridge
30 Rock-bound coast of Finistere, France
31 Bird's-eye view of Naples (East) and Vesuvius, Italy
32 Emerald Lake, Sierra Nevada
33 Early spring or late winter, tapping a maple tree
35 Spring- Jack in the pulpit
36 Seeds carried by the wind
37 Getting ready for Halloween
38 Market day in a snowstorm, Quebec, Canada
39 Deep snow drifts in New England
41 Summer- On a children's city playground
43 Summer- A family picnic party in the woods
45 Winter- Boys playing fort in the snow
46 Tomatoes growing in a home garden
47 Harvesting onions on truck farm near Buffalo, NY
48 Potato field on a truck farm
49 Wheat field, Washington
50 Gathering sweet potatoes, Philippine Islands
51 Red raspberry field in the lakeshore fruit belt, Hilton, NY
52 Picking apples
56 Banana trees, Hawai
57 Date palms, Alexandria, Egypt
59 Preparing cane stocks for planting, West Indies
60 Gathering cotton on a southern plantation, Dallas TX
61 Tapping a rubber tree in Brazil
62 Bamboo jungle, Java
63 Corn husking by hand on a New Jersey farm
64 Rice field at plowing time, Japan
65 Bamboo plantation, Nanking, China
66 Walnut grove in Southern California
67 Maple sugar in barrels drawn by oxen to the station for shipment
68 Great trees in the Oregon forest
69 Apple orchard in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada
70 Chipmunk or striped squirrel
71 The polar bear, Bronx Park, New York City
72 Buffalo herd, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
73 Beavers and their home
74 Reynard the fox
75 Puma, or mountain lion, captured in Colorado
76 Royal Bengal Tiger in his cage
77 Caged lions at close range
78 Giant hippopotamus from Africa
81 Crocodiles, Palm Beach, FL
82 Downy woodpecker and chickadee
83 Young flickers
84 Ring-necked pheasants, U.S.A
85 Red-winged blackbirds
86 The blue jay
89 Ostrich hatching eggs, FL
90 Writing spider and web
92 Ground hog
93 Elephants bathing in a tropical stream
94 Reindeer herd in Norway
97 Possum hunting
98 Monkey mother and baby on a tree
99 Sea gulls in San Francisco Bay
100 A veery's eggs in the nest
101 Bears in Yellowstone Park
102 Song sparrows in their nest
104 Wild animal pets
107 Flamingoes, Australia
108 "Isn't our stock looking fine?"
109 Chicken ranch in California
110 Turkeys in the barnyard
111 Feeding pigeons in front of St. Mark's, Venice, Italy
113 Milking the cow
114 Teaching a calf to drink milk from a pail
115 Sheep and lambs, New England
116 Shepherd and his flock, Judea
118 The bee man looking at his bees
120 A cattle round-up in Arizona
121 An elephant at work
122 Mother camel and baby in the desert
123 Shetland pony with week-old foal
124 Petting the colt
127 Ducks in the farmyard
130 Peasants crushing grain by hand, Russia
131 Grinding wheat, Palestine
132 Making tortillas, Salvador, Central America
133 Making native bread, Bulgaria
134 Making bread, women of Lebanon, Syria
135 Meal time in a Filipino home
136 Water carriers, Nile River, Egypt
137 Delivering milk to city homes
140 Getting ready for business
147 The blacksmith's shop
148 Potter shaping plates, Trenton, NJ
150 Wooden plow drawn by oxen, Mexico
151 Riding plows drawn by horses, Washington
153 Cutting ice with a saw, Pennsylvania
155 Shearing sheep
156 A spinning wheel and reel, Norway
157 Feeding silkworms with mulberry leaves, Japan
158 Unwinding the cocoons, Japan
159 At the loom weaving silk, Japan
162 Milk wagon and dog team, Antwerp, Belgium
163 Grocery man selling supplies
164 Furrowing an orchard with a tractor
170 The grocery store and the delivery truck
174 Milking cows by machine in a modern stable, pure blood Guernsey cows
175 Cutting wheat with a cradle
176 Stocks of wheat in the fields, Regina, Sask, Canada
178 Grinding the wheat into flour
179 In an old gristmill
182 Tanning leather, cleaning hides by the "Beaming" process
187 American woolen mill-Sorting raw wool into three grades
188 Doll factory-Molding dolls' heads, Sonnenberg, Germany
189 same as above
193 Farming-Irrigating newly planted fields, New Jersey
195 Water wheel and irrigation ditch on a great fruit farm in Washington
196 Farmer with buffalo team, Bulgaria
198 The camel-On the Jerusalem road, Palestine
201 Sioux indians and ponies, Colorado
202 Train arriving at Ranger, TX
204 Sailboat in harbor, Piraeus, Greece
210 Wholesale produce market on a busy day, Chicago, IL
212 Freight steamer loading lambs, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
215 Freight cars loaded with cotton bales on the levee near cotton growing district, Texas
217 Canoes at Yakusa, Congo, Africa
219 Dutch scene-Women with milk cart on a dyke road west of Dordrecht, Netherlands
222 Loading the truck with vegetables for market
224 Traffic policeman, Cleveland, OH
225 A fire department in action
226 School gardening, Philadelphia, PA
227 Story hour in the first grade
228 First grade at work
230 A home garden
231 City street cleaning machine
232 A public city market
233 Public city market from the outside
235 In the health office of a school
236 Boy scouts raising the flag
237 School gardens of boy scouts and camp fire girls, Philadelphia, PA
238 The postman
246 U.S. soldiers in Germany, infantry on review
248 Iroquois Indian village, Canada
249 Indian pueblo, New Mexico
250 Indian woman baking bread, New Mexico
251 Indian squaw making pottery, Oraibi, AZ
252 Indian village on a government reservation, Glacier National Park, Montana
254 Indian warriors in council
255 Indian fur camp on the plains
257 Old Navajo Indian woman making rug on a primitive loom
258 Hopi indian home, Mishongovi, AZ
260 Mountaineer's cabin, Cumberland Gap, TN
261 Wash day, Funchal, Madeira Islands
262 Village home in India
263 Lapp family at home, Norway
264 Bedouin tent, Palestine
256 Father going to work
266 Bedtime
267 Shack built on piles, Manila, Philippines
268 Homes of miners in a Pennsylvania coal center
269 A farm far away
271 Farmer's wife churning
272 A truck garden
273 An American mother preparing a meal
274 Summer tents of Eskimos, Greenland
275 Swedish woman milking a cow in the farmyard, Lerfal, Sweden
276 American family life
277 American mother bathing the baby
286 In the land of wooden shoes, Holland
287 School children, Marken, Holland
288 Arabic school in Cairo, Egypt
289 Japanese children with their kites, Japan
290 Have you learned to read? Japan
291 Japanese school children, Japan
292 Kashmir children playing hop-scotch
293 A toddler in Manchuria, China
294 Milking the goat, Australia
295 Filipino children at play
297 French boys buying toy boats from a boat builder
298 English boys on a hill near Ludlow, England
299 Eskimo mother, babe and pet wolf on deck of S.S. Diana, West Coast, Greenland
300 Chinese children at play (Blindman's bluff)
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