Stereo View Card (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 18 x 9cm. Card slightly concave (as usual). Printed along the sides of the photos: "New Education Series Stereoscopic Views. American and Foreign Views. Sold by Canvasser." Three differently-clad African American youths with the center one grinning and holding a watermelon partly concealed under his shirt. Partially readable poster on a wall behind the boys announces: "Second Annual Excursion C. R. Hubert Republican Club Stockton, Pa." W found no online information about such a club. Humorous cards featuring Afriocan Americans and watermelons seemed to find ready white buyers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 18 x 9cm. Card slightly concave (as usual). Stamped on the back: Universal Photo Art Co., Philadelphia, Pa. An obviously posed double photo of a white-haired African American man who is wearing patched-up winter clothes and feet coverings and holding an old rifle and iseated on a log. Beside him hangs what appear to be four or five rabbit carcasses.

Condition: Good. Appears to utilize albumen photographs mounted on a light orange card. No name on card. Photo clear but not sharp. Small tear in lefthand image. Two pieces missing from back panel on mounting. View looks from a distance directly at one of the corners so that you see two sides of the building.

Condition: Very Good. Albumen silver prints mounted on stiff, somewhat curved card. Aproximately 18 x 9 cm. Posed photo of a raggedly dressed African American youth who has been grabbed by the shoulder by a pitchfork-holding older man.Caption also rendered on back of card in French, German. Spanish, Swedish and Russian.

Condition: Very Good. 18 x 9 cm. Card almost entirely flat unlike most stereo cards. Light scuffing and wear. No caption front or back and no identification of publisher or date. BTW and three other African Americans eight white men are seated in two rowsseated at left end of back row. All men are wearing suits; two are holding white hats. We've seen other stereo card groupings of BTW with the white Tuskegee trustees. We wouldn't be surprised if many, if not all, of the prosperous-looking whites in this image were trustees.