IIn the albumen printing process, paper is coated with egg white and sodium chloride, then with silver nitrate solution. It was developed by Louis Blanquart-Evrard in 1850 and was the most common form of photographic printing from the mid-1850s to the mid-1890s. Albumen prints were more detailed and higher contrast than Talbot's salt prints and were well-suited to the wet collodion negatives produced starting in the early 1850s (Reily 1980, 93–98).

This particular stereoview demonstrates some of the challenges of early stereo photography. Stereo photographers in the 1850s often took stereoviews by shifting a single-lens camera sideways between shots (the first dual-lens stereo camera only became commercially available in 1856). If people or vehicles were in view, they sometimes moved in the interval: the right-hand image in this stereoview includes two people on the edges of the frame who don't appear in the left-hand view. Further, if motion occurred while the shutter was open, the slow speed of early photography often resulted in blurring, evident in the center of both images (Early Photography 2024).