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Aviation Stereoviews

Big Trees Stereoviews

Black American Stereoviews      

Civil War Stereoviews

Expedition & Survey Stereoviews

Exposition & Fair Stereoviews

Handcolored Stereoviews

Humorous Stereoviews (NFS page)

Military Misc. Stereoviews

National Park Stereoviews

Native American Indian Stereoviews

Pets, Animals, Toys, and Children Stereoviews

Presidents & Personalities Stereoviews

Railroad Stereoviews

Shipping & Nautical Stereoviews  

 

Location Views

 

Alaska Stereoviews

California Stereoviews

Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard Stereoviews

Colorado Stereoviews

Maine Stereoviews

Mid-Atlantic & Southern Stereo views

Midwestern Stereoviews

New England Stereoviews

New Mexico Stereoviews

New York City Stereoviews

New York State Stereoviews

Pacific Northwest Stereoviews

Western Misc. Stereoviews

 

Foreign Location Views

 

Canada Stereoviews

European Stereoviews

Great Britain Stereoviews

Japan Stereoviews

Mideast & Holy Land Stereoviews

Misc. Foreign Stereoviews

 

  Misc. Formats, Books, Etc.

Actor Cartes de Visite  

Cabinet Cards

Cameras

Cartes de Visite

Civil War Cartes de Visite

Daguerreotypes & Tintypes etc.

Large Format Photographs

Photographic Books & Ephemera  

Rare, Important Instantaneous Photograph

Real Photo Postcards  

Stereoscopes (viewers)

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Stereoviews and Fine 19th & 20th Century Antique Photographs

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"Free-viewing" of stereo images will enhance your enjoyment of my pages. Free-viewing is seeing the image in 3D without a stereoscope. To learn more about free-viewing click >>   Free-viewing

 

photographer stereoview

Underwood & Underwood. 8288 - Looking N. up Fifth Ave. past Flatiron Bldg. and Madison Sq., N.Y.  (From the David Spahr Collection. NFS)

David L. Spahr
19th & 20th Century Photographs
16 Nelson Ridge Rd. S.
Washington, Maine 04574
USA

Please call 207-845-2124 if you have items to sell.

Send email to: dspahr3d@stereoviews.com

Member of the National Stereoscopic Association

Biographical info & some email humor

Disclaimer: If you were looking for a big corporate site replete with nameless, faceless, buck passers and flunkies who do not answer email or cannot answer it expertly, or a site with fancy graphics and automated systems, then you came to the wrong place. Please leave now. At stereoviews.com you will be forced to deal with a real person and friendly, reasonably knowledgeable personal replies. You will be stuck with knowing exactly where the buck stops! Sorry to put you through it, but that's the way it is around here.


  • A dealer in 19th & 20th century photography as well as cameras, photographic related items, ephemera, and selected antiques. My specialty is stereoviews (stereo cards, stereo view cards stereopticon), viewers, and other 3D photography. I have views available in most subject areas . 

  • I also have antique photo daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite (cdv's), cabinet cards, larger format photographs, Viewmaster, Tru-Vue, etc. Email me your wants. I might have it! If I don't, I can place you in my database for future consideration.

  • I am always interested in purchasing better quality stereoviews and other photographs. See what people at eBay say about me HERE. Also, if you have interest in knowing more about the National Stereoscopic Association , let me know and I will gladly mail you the information.

  • I collect stereoviews. The following are some of the subjects that interest me. Maine views photographed or published by F.H. Crockett, Rockland, ME., views of Gardiner or Washington, Maine, selected New England views, Western, other U.S.A., photographic related, ghosts, people painting portraits or landscapes, chess related, martial arts or samurai, aviation, birds (especially eagles, racing pigeons, and passenger pigeons), snakes, other animals, hand colored, drinking & drunkenness, romance & humor, comic sets, foreign, etc. etc. Obviously, I'm out of control!

  • I occasionally sell at photographica and ephemera shows.  David's show schedule 
    If you are coming to Maine, call for an appointment.

 

Recommended reading list from Amazon.com

Stereo Views; An Illustrated History and Price Guide by John Waldsmith. This is a must have book for collectors!

 

Photography and the American Scene; A Social History, 1839-1889.   by Robert Taft. This is a really great book which gives a broad, but detailed and authoritative overview of the first 100 years of photography. It was published in 1938 and is still in print. This is a must for the serious collector's library. Simply the best.
The World of Stereographs
 William C. Darrah. Great scholarly info on stereoviews. No prices but..........
The Scenic Daguerreotype : Romanticism and Early Photography by John Wood, John R. Stilgoe. Truly great outdoor daguerreotypes are shown in this book.
Stereoscopes : The First One Hundred Years by Paul Wing. The only book on stereoscopes. A really great book. The Silver Canvas :  Daguerreotypes Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum
by Bates Lowry, Isabel Lowry, J. Paul Getty
The Civil War in Depth : History in 3-D/With Viewer  by Bob Zeller Nineteenth Century Photographic Cases and Wall Frames   by Paul K. Berg
Collector's Guide to Early Photographs (Collectors Guide Series) by O. Henry Mace. A good book for beginning collectors (and advanced) detailing the many different formats and processes. Union Cases : A Collector's Guide to the Art of America's First Plastics  by Clifford Krainik and Carl Walvoord
John Carbutt on the Frontiers of Photography by John Brey

 

Dictionary of American Portraits : 4000 Pictures of Important Americans from Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century  by Hayward Circer
The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist
by Mead Kibbey, Peter Palmquist (Editor)
Early Photography at Gettysburg
by William A. Frassanito
Stereoviews Illustrated : Fifty Early American  by Russell Norton

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