Collection of stereoscopic photographs portraying people, sights and views around Palestine and two stereoscopes. Mid-19th to early 20th century.
In the collection:
• Two editions of a set with one hundred photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations, accompanied by two editions of the book "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. 1900 and 1905. English.
Card no. 35 in one of the sets differs in color and it seems that it was taken from another set. The photographs are contained in cases shaped as books.
• Collection of 28 stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other location, [early 20th century]. Contained in a case shaped as two books.
• The book "Jerusalem through the Stereoscope", printout from "Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Published by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London and other locations, 1905.
• Folding wooden table-top stereoscope. Made by Smith, Beck & Beck. London, [ca. mid-19th century].
• Small wooden stereoscope - "Brewster's refracting stereoscope". [England (?), second half of the 19th century].
Size and condition vary.