Stull Folding Stereo Daguerreotype Viewer with Portrait

National Collection of Qatar

Currently not on display

Title:: Stull Folding Stereo Daguerreotype Viewer with Portrait

Maker:: John Stull

Production place:: United States of America
Date:: 1855
Period:: 19th century CE

Material:: Leather, Wood, Metal, Glass, Textile, Paper
Technique:: Daguerreotype
Dimensions:: 9.7 × 13 × 12.9 cm

Stull’s patented folding stereoscopic viewer reflects mid-19th-century CE innovations in visual technology that sought to heighten realism through binocular vision. By merging two images into a single three-dimensional effect, such devices transformed photography into an immersive experience. Produced in Philadelphia, a key centre of photographic manufacture, this example illustrates the rapid commercialisation and popular appeal of stereoscopic viewing in the United States.