- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Underwood & Underwood
- Provenance
- Presented by Professor Oliver R. Gurney in 1973, together with several boxed sets of stereoscopic photographs.
- Primary inscriptions
- "MAN'F'D BY / UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD / NEW YORK / PATENTED U.S.A. / JUNE 11. 1901." on base. "SUN SCULPTURE / U&U / TRADE MARK" on upper surface of eyepiece
- Object type
- Stereoscopic viewer
- Dimensions
- Height: 195mm Width: 175mm Depth: 320mm
- Inventory No
- 24379
- Accession Number
- 1973-22/4
Description
Both stereoscopic viewers have engraved metal eyepieces, with square lenses, these have an edging of padded brown felt. The eyepieces are mounted on a wooden cross with a tapered handle which pivots out to a right angle with the cross. The image would be slotted into the metal brackets on the cross beam; the cross beam slides along the main wooden slat for focussing.
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