A man with a crown of curly white hair lifts his eyes from a peculiar-looking device. “This is the Victorian sensation. This is a stereoscope. I look in here, and I see a heartbroken lady, waiting ...

Smitten with our little plastic View-Masters as kids, few of us baby boomers knew that our forebears amused themselves with their own three-dimensional gizmos. Before television, before radio, there ...

If you walked into Charles Herzog’s classroom last spring, you’d have seen a peculiarly modern sight: middle schoolers all staring into virtual-reality gear. Their bodies, officially, were at Flood ...

It is quite possible that your grandparents had a 3D stereoscope tucked away in the attic or an old trunk. Today, stereoscopes and their view cards are quite collectable. On Thursday, William & Mary ...

When I was young, our local library had a handheld stereoscope for viewing photos in 3-D. The library had a collection of photos of exotic places and tourist attractions to look at through the ...

Today, we hear a lot about movie viewing options in 3-D and even IMAX in 4-D. These are a lot of fun to see, but what about 125 years ago? Before “moving pictures,” stereoscopes were all the rage.

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