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1914-1921 (Creation)
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- Keystone View Company
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100 stereographs
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The Keystone View Company was established in the summer of 1892 by B.L. Singley, an enthusiastic amateur photographer in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Keystone was to become the most important publisher of stereographs in the twentieth century. Keystone went on to publish several series of stereograph cards such as images of mining and mineral industries, national parks of America, the world, American history, President McKinley's funeral, World War I, Cascade Park, and the Tennessee State Centennial. By 1920, Keystone was the only major publisher of stereographs in the world. They had offices in London, Paris, Sidney, Capetown, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. Part of this prominence was derived from the sale of World War I stereograph sets, as Keystone was one of the only publishers to secure permission to photograph battlefields and military operations. Unfortunately, permission was not granted until the end of 1918, just before Armistice, so many of the photographs depict scenes taken after the end of the war. The photographer of the World War I photographs was Andrew S. Iddings. The Keystone View Company ceased regular production in 1939 but continued to manufacture views for optometric purposes. As well, they filled individual orders for stereographs until 1970. (Taken from: Darrah, William C. "The World of Stereographs." Gettysburg: W.C. Darrah Publisher, 1977.)
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The fonds consists of 100 black and white stereoscopic views entitled "World War Through the Stereograph" Volumes 1 and 2. Each stereograph is numbered and has on the reverse a descriptive text.
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For related records see: 80-008 and 83-1026
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(Note: accessions 80-007 and 80-008 are shelved together in one box).
80-007
Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa., Publishers.
100 black and white numbered and captioned stereographs entitled World War Through Stereograph (Vol I and II).
1 fugitive stereograph of "Ye Eternal Rocks" - the Fraser River and C.P. Ry. Bridge at Cisco, B.C., 1903.|
Each stereograph has a brief descriptive text on the reverse side. Date of publication unknown [1921?]; dates of contents 1914 to 1921.
1 Serajero, Yugoslavia
2 Parade of Cuirassier Guards, Berlin
3 Russian troops
4 Morocco Cavalry, Paris
5 48th Highlanders of Toronto
6 Ally trenches, Coast of Flanders
7 "Mur Tschoffen" wall in Dinant
8 Cardinal Mercier, Belgium
9 French Cavalry, Northern France
10 Marne Bridge; Red Cross Train Wreck
11 Pontoon Bridge, French sector of West Front
12 trenches, La Bassee area
13 No Man's Land near Lens, France
14 Flanders' Fields
15 Battle of Cambrai
16 Scots entrenched
17 Gallipoli, west beach
18 British anti-aircraft gun
19 No Man's Land, Bulgarian Lines
20 Italian Front
21 British Battle Cruiser, "Indomitable"
22 Battle of Verdun, 1916
23 Pres. Poincare and Marshall Joffre
24 Cathedral at Reims, France
25 French 320's near Reims
26 Chemin des Dames, France
27 Chemin des Dames, trenches
28 Chemin des Dames, No Man's Land
29 Berry au Bac, France
30 field guns, Oise France
31 ruins, France
32 Alincourt, German ammunition camp
33 supplies, Aisne France
34 North Compiegne, France
35 trenches, French soldiers
36 First Aid Squad
37 wounded, French front
38 French field hospital
39 wounded, Belguim hospital
40 domestics, France
41 cannon
42 French 155mm. gun
43 German steel cupola for machine guns
44 Zeppelin
45 Zeppelin
46 supply train, bombed
47 observation airplane
48 French "75" gun
49 observation Balloon
50 R-34 airship
51 artillery
52 Germans, dead
53 ruined French village
54 French reserves
55 tank, Cambrai
56 armored tank
57 Renault tanks
58 President Wilson
59 sun bathing
60 calisthenics
61 American Army Camp
62 France, gas mask training
63 training camps, barbed wire
64 American soldiers
65 National Army, Chicago, 1917
66 Great Lakes Training Station, sailors
67 Naval training station
68 12 inch gun, ammunition
69 U.S. Battleship
70 U.S. Submarines
71 U.S. Submarines
72 Marshall Joffre and General Pershing, France
73 submarine wreck, Belguim
74 Bridge over Marne
75 Belleau Wood, France
76 Cathedral in ruin, France
77 grave of Lieu. Quentin Roosevelt
78 German machine guns
79 German prisoners, France
80 Place des Halles, St. Mihiel
81 Ehrenbreitstein on the Rhine, Germany
82 89th Division Doughboys
83 U.S. Army tractor
84 decorating 89th Division, General Pershing
85 U.S. troops in London
86 Victory Day Celebration, July 14, 1919, Paris, France
87 Parade, France
88 Peace Conference, Paris
89 Peace Treaty, Versailles
90 Peace Conference, Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George
91 Soldiers going home, France
92 U.S. transport, "Leviathan"
93 U.S. soldiers, abandon ship drill
94 Convalescent hospital, New York
95 parade, New York
96 reunion
97 U.S. Cemetery at Belleau Wood
98 casket of the Unknown Soldier
99 military heros, Kansas
100 Disarmament Conference, Washington, 1921
1 "Ye Eternal Rocks", Fraser River and C.P.R. Bridge, B.C.
80-008
Realistic Travels, London, England, Publishers.
100 black and white numbered and captioned stereographs entitled The Great War (Including the Official Series): Numbers 9, 14, 34 and 75 missing, but set includes #'s 206, 246, 259 and 260.
Date of publication unknown; dates of contents 1914 to 1918.
For further information on these and other examples of the photographic record, the researcher is advised to consult:
a. Archivaria #5, Winter 1977-78, a special issue on photographs and archives; and
b. Guide to Canadian Photographic Archives, Ottawa, 1979, a union list of photographic holdings of Canadian Archives.
1 Seaforths
2 trench mortar, artillery
3 Seaforths
4 Seaforths, trenches
5 Seaforths, trenches
6 Ypres
7 gunners
8 Bosche
10 Royal Field Artillery, R&R
11 H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, France
12 La Bassee Road, London territorials
13 railhead - troops and supplies
15 Staff Officer from G.H.Q. in dugout
16 Hun defence battery
17 Nieuport, floods and barbed wire
18 F.M. Sir John French, France
19 Indian bombers, Neuve-Chapelle
20 Hun high explosive shell
21 French graves
22 Gurkhas, Neuve Chapelle
23 Ypres
24 death
25 Hun lines, death
26 wounded
27 Beury Chateau, Festubert
28 battery of Field Artillery
29 Regiment of Allenby's Cavalry, Ypres
30 Cavalry, France
31 ruins
32 Richbourg Cathedral, France
33 Hill 60, Ypres 1915
35 battlefront, Yser Canal
36 first aid dogs, No Man's Land
37 His majesty King George V
38 Ypres, wounded
39 Zouave Woods, 6th Division, wounded
40 gas cloud at Loos
41 Chalk pits, Loos
42 Belgian trenches, Nieuport in the winter
43 Lewis machine gunners
44 Prussians, Pozieres
45 St. Eloy, Ypres
46 mine field, La Boiselle on the Somme
47 trenches, Sausage Valley
48 gas attach, Serre and Thiepval
49 Picardy of the Battle of the Somme
50 Somme villages; attack
51 H.E. shells in Mametz Wood, 1916
52 French 75's, Thiepval Ridge
53 wounded, Thiepval Ridge
54 Delville Wood
55 Trones Wood
56 gunners
57 mud at Flanders
58 wounded, Battle of the Somme
59 Somme
60 Jerry prisoner
61 guns captured in Battle of the Somme
62 artillery, Somme
63 Somme, No Man's Land
64 Zeppelin
65 Gondola
66 impression of a burning man who had fallen from the Zeppelin
67 crew of the Zeppelin, charred
68 Sopwith Camels
69 aerial combat
70 aerial combat
71 aerial view of the trenches
72 Vimy Ridge, 1917
73 Hindenburg Line, Croiselles
74 Croiselles
76 R.A.M.C. attending to wounded, Monchy Dressing Station
77 Woncourt, artillery observation
78 trenches, Arras
79 Hun "pill box" at Bullecourt
80 Ypres
81 Messines, No Man's Land
82 Messines Ridge
83 Zero hour, Wytechache Wood
84 Huns attack
85 Yser Canal, supplies
86 party of Germans isolated in captured village
87 Pilkem surrender
88 Zero hour, Wytechache Wood
89 North Country troops, Polygon Wood, 1917
90 Bernafay Wood
91 Menin Road Victory, R&R
92 Menin Road, Ypres
93 Houthoulst Forest
94 block house, Poelecappelle
95 Ghelnvelt
96 Passchendaele
97 gas attack, Passchendaele Ridge
98 wounded, Passchendaele
99 14th Century Ramparts and Lille Gates, Ypres
100 Ypres
101 shell fire, Trones Wood
246 Fauquissart post
259 Highland battalion off to the front
260 Leicesters passing by French Canal on their way to the Front Lines