Record Details

Name/TitleLarge, fold­able Grapho­scope, Luxe

About this objectHen­ry J. Lewis was a son of William Lewis, a pio­neer­ing pho­tog­ra­ph­er and sup­pli­er of daguer­reian mate­ri­als in New York. Hen­ry Lewis patent­ed a design that was a vari­ant of the Eng­lish Graphoscope.
The device has a large lens for con­ven­tion­al pho­tographs and two stereo lens­es. All three lens­es are mount­ed in a sin­gle pan­el, and the large lens can­not be fold­ed away, as is often the case in the Eng­lish Grapho­scope. The device folds up com­plete­ly into a rel­a­tive­ly com­pact box. The base­board is mount­ed on a mov­able sys­tem of struts that allows the view­er to be direct­ed. In a lat­er ver­sion, the struts were replaced by a sim­pler mechanism.

(from: Com­pendi­um of Stereoscopes)

Place MadeUnit­ed States of America

Mak­erLewis, Hen­ry J.

Mak­er RoleMan­u­fac­tur­er

Date Madec. 1875

Tech­niqueFocus, car­ri­er

Peri­od1893–1939

For­mat8.5x17cm

Object TypeStere­o­scope

Sub­ject and Asso­ci­a­tion Key­wordsUS 165241 (H. J. Lewis, 1875)

Medi­um and Mate­ri­alsopaque and transparent

Object num­berM‑ST088

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