Back in the early 1800s, Sir Charles Wheatstone came up with the bright idea for three-dimensional imagery using the novel two-dimensional medium of photography, and the stereoscope was born.
180 or so years later, a person who can not fully perceive three dimensions (it's an issue of eyesight and failure to get proper corrective procedures early in life, but life in "Flatland" suits my needs) has just spent a fair amount of time studying and enjoying a bit of light restoration work on a series of antique lithographic images for said stereoscope. The cards they were printed on are among the items I obtained at auction while bidding on and purchasing a great heap of similarly-aged postcards.
Nevertheless, they're almost in the right range for my collection... after all, they're travel-related. Still, one can't simply stick a stamp and an address on one of these and pop it into a mailbox, so it's getting the scan-and-toss treatment. Not technically. They don't go into the trash, unless nobody expresses an interest in owning a small stack of non-postcard goodies. They're free to a good home, though.
Mind you, the original cards are pretty scruffy.
But if you want to print a somewhat-cleaned-up version, feel free to copy any and all of what I'm posting below. Click to embiggen, and share if you like what you see.
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| "Great Bridge and Art Palace, Paris, France." |
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| "Place de la Concorde, Paris, France." |
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| "Tower Bridge, England." |
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| "River Seine and Paris Exposition, France." |
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| "Near Land's End, England." |
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| "Bedroom of Napoleon, Versailles, France." |
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| "Windsor Castle, England." |
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| "Heidelburg Castle, Germany." |
"Heidelburg". Seriously. That's how they spelled "Heidelberg" on the card. So all you German readers, don't blame me. I can tell the difference between a mountain and a town.
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| "In the Market Place, Cologne, Germany." |
Also: Köln. But understandable, since it's got an eponym, of sorts.
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| "Cologne on the Rhine, Germany." |
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| "In the Bavarian Highlands, Germany." |
Seriously. If you want the beaten-up and stained cards these images came from, let me know, & we can work something out.
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