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Keystone View Company (Meadville, Pennsylvania)

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1892 - 1972

Biography

The Keystone View Company was a major distributor of stereographic images, and was located in Meadville, Pennsylvania. From 1892 through 1963 Keystone produced and distributed both educational and comic/sentimental stereoviews, and stereoscopes. By 1905 it was the world's largest stereographic company. In 1963 Department A (stereoviews sold to individual families) and the Education Departments were closed down, but Keystone continued to manufacture eye-training stereographic products as a subsidiary of Mast Development Company. In 1972 Mast closed the Meadville manufacturing site. (Source: Wikipedia, accessed 12/22/2021).

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

American History Stereoscope Cards, H1–H100

 Series — Box 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Keystone View Company Stereographic Library collection contains 350 stereoscope cards, or stereographs, of historical people, places, and topics. The collection is comprised of four different series, including American History, Cowboys, American Indians and Mexico.Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The stereographs in...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Keystone View Company Stereographic Library

American Indians Stereoscope Cards, I1 –I100

 Series — Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Keystone View Company Stereographic Library collection contains 350 stereoscope cards, or stereographs, of historical people, places, and topics. The collection is comprised of four different series, including American History, Cowboys, American Indians and Mexico.Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The stereographs in...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Keystone View Company Stereographic Library

Cowboys Stereoscope Cards, 1–50

 Series — Box 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Keystone View Company Stereographic Library collection contains 350 stereoscope cards, or stereographs, of historical people, places, and topics. The collection is comprised of four different series, including American History, Cowboys, American Indians and Mexico.Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The stereographs in...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Keystone View Company Stereographic Library

Floyd Bledsoe Collection

 Collection — ELIBR-0063
Identifier: ELIBR-0063
Scope and Contents

Collection contains 168 glass lantern slides and an electric McIntosh Sciopticon Projector as well as 221 stereoscope cards (Keystone View Co.) and 3 manual, handheld stereoscope viewers.

Dates: circa 1850s - 1915
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus

Keystone View Company Stereographic Library

 Collection
Identifier: ELIBR-0246
Scope and Contents The Keystone View Company Stereographic Library collection contains 350 stereoscope cards, or stereographs, of historical people, places, and topics. The collection is comprised of four different series, including American History, Cowboys, American Indians and Mexico.Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The stereographs in...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus

Mexico Stereoscope Cards, MX1–MX100

 Series — Box 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Keystone View Company Stereographic Library collection contains 350 stereoscope cards, or stereographs, of historical people, places, and topics. The collection is comprised of four different series, including American History, Cowboys, American Indians and Mexico.Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. The stereographs in...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Keystone View Company Stereographic Library

Original Boxes, Keystone View Company Stereographic Library

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Original boxes for the Keystone View Company Stereographic Library, which originally housed each set of educational stereoscope cards.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Keystone View Company Stereographic Library

Stereoscope Cards and Viewer, circa 1890s - 1910s

 Series — ELIBR-0063, Box: 1
Scope and Contents

Box contains 168 stereoscope cards and three (3) handeld viewers.

Dates: circa 1890s - 1910s
Found in: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus / Floyd Bledsoe Collection

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Type
Archival Object 6
Collection 2
 
Subject
Stereoscope 7
Photographs 5
Photographs--stereograph 2
Indians of North America -- Native Americans 1
Mexico 1
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United States 1
United States--History 1
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