{"id":31565,"date":"2025-05-27T01:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31565"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T21:01:19","slug":"dating-those-stereo-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dating-those-stereo-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"dating those stereo cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31566\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/holmes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31566\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/holmes-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a Holmes stereo card viewer<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. A common sight at our fairs is the ubiquitous &#8216;stereo card&#8217;. You know, the usually slightly curved cards with two similar images &#8216;glued&#8217; to the card. Often the cards are undated and it&#8217;s difficult to estimate a date.<\/p>\n<p>Past-president, Les Jones, himself a professional sports photographer and entrepreneur (and future author) solved this dilemma by reaching out to others and creating a chart to assist in dating stereo cards.<\/p>\n<p>This chart was reproduced and distributed in issue 23-4 of the journal (January, 1998). The preamble gives this caveat and information sources, &#8220;<b>NOTE: All dates are approximate<\/b>: some photographers and publishers continued to use a certain style\u00a0long after it had been discontinued elsewhere. There are also differences between European (E) cards\u00a0and North American (NA) cards. Information courtesy of William Darrah and George Gilbert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members can view and print the chart from the issue 23-4 pdf file on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive. If you have any questions on membership, drop Lilianne an email at <a href=\"mailto:member@phsc.ca\">member@phsc.ca<\/a>. \u00a0To join, see MEMBERSHIP above and\/or Membership at right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. A common sight at our fairs is the ubiquitous &#8216;stereo card&#8217;. You know, the usually slightly curved cards with two similar images &#8216;glued&#8217; to the card. Often the cards are undated and it&#8217;s difficult to estimate a date. Past-president, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dating-those-stereo-cards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[220,258,4737,4738],"class_list":["post-31565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-photos","tag-stereo","tag-stereo-card","tag-stereo-card-dating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31569,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31565\/revisions\/31569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}