Record Details

Name/TitleStere­o­scope ‘Sys­teme Jahnholtz’

About this objectThe glass stere­oviews are loaded into the upper sec­tion of the view­er. The lid con­tains a spring that press­es the slides into place when the device is closed. By oper­at­ing a plunger, a stere­oview is brought in front of the lens­es and sub­se­quent­ly moved to the low­er sec­tion of the viewer.

(from: Com­pendi­um of Stereoscopes)

Place MadeFrance

Mak­erRichard, Jules

Mak­er RoleMan­u­fac­tur­er

Date Madec. 1900

Tech­niqueMul­ti-view

Tech­niqueFocus, lens tubes

Peri­od1893–1939

Sub­ject and Asso­ci­a­tion Descrip­tionThe Stéréo­scope Sys­teme Jahn­holtz was like­ly the first hand-held mul­ti-view stere­o­scope for glass stere­oviews. The instru­ment was named after its design­er, Jahn­holtz. The view­er was not includ­ed in the cat­a­logues of Jules Richard, and it is unclear whether the device exist­ed only as a lim­it­ed num­ber of pro­to­types or was pro­duced on any mean­ing­ful scale.

For­mat45x107mm

Object TypeStere­o­scope

Sub­ject and Asso­ci­a­tion Key­wordsFR 280799 (H. M. C. Jahn­holtz, J. Richard, 1898)

Medi­um and Mate­ri­alsglass slides

Object num­berM‑SH064

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