Sale 2536 | Lot 283
Lot 2536 | Lot 283
(STEREO VIEWS--TRAVEL)
Around the world in 12 volumes, the Keystone View Company Tour of the World box set with 596 depictions of people and landscapes from across the globe.
A collection of stereo views from across the six continents, depicting Canada's Arctic seascapes, Native American Tribes, the fast-paced city streets of Shanghai, charming European cities, peaceful Japanese gardens, amazing structures from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the Taj Mahal in India, the vast coffee plantations of Brazil, a group of young Maasai mothers carrying their children, and more. Including photographs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt writing and Mahatma Gandhi posing for a sculpture. Silver prints, the images measuring 3 1/8 x3 inches (7.9x7.6 cm.), the gray mounts 3½x7 inches (8.9x17.8 cm.), each with Keystone View Company's credit, addresses, inventory and set numbers, and caption, on mount recto, and printed text about each location, on mount verso; housed in blue leatherette boxes shaped like pairs of books, with gilt-lettered Keystone View Co. credit, the set title, box volume and stereograph numbers. Circa 1933
[1,000/1,500]
