PEI Market Place c1890
Toronto. Stereo cards vary in quality – some are even fakes without stereo at all. The real McCoys give a great insight into the history of an area around the late 1800s/early 1900s. This example is from the late Dr Robert Wilson’s column Image of the Month in issue 15-3 of the journal at the end of 1989.
The image was slightly sharpened and noise removed in Photo AI 3 (the text was slightly compromised by the software).
Bob begins his story, “In the 1890’s, competition was high among a number of large publishers of stereoscopic views. Photographers who worked for these companies travelled far and wide.
“In their travels. they would often take several negatives of a scene so that if one of their glass plate were broken. they would have another negative. Many of these duplicate negatives were eventually published – it is not uncommon to find several stereo views of the same scene with people or moving vehicles being the only things that changed.”
You can read all of Bob’s article on the DVD we send to all members. It has pdf files of all issues of Photographic Canadiana from volume 1 to volume 40.
Image collectors may find stereo views – or other photos — for their collection at our fall events, the first of which is the fair on October 20th. A poster will be on this site closer to the event.
