Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
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Metropolian Syndicate Press

Title:

Wild and Domestic Animals

Date:

1905

Material:

Cardstock cards, plated tin viewer, glass lenses

Dimensions:

Views 1×3 in. (25×76 mm),  viewer 4⅜ in. (111 mm)

Company:

Metropolitan Syndicate Press

Location:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Metropolitan Syndicate Press published a series of full size stereoviews sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co. as the "Metropolitan Series." They also published smaller views to go with the tin litho viewer for children shown here. Copyright 1905, these are single sided. Views with a later copyright of 1909 pictured on vintageviewers.com are double-sided—perhaps they realized they could save some money.

The company was established by Prosper Dalien Fenn in 1903. Fenn applied for and was granted US Patent 810,401 for a collapsable stereoscope, somewhat different from this one, in 1905.