Lake District

part of the jonathan ross collection

Stereoviews

Stereoscopic view (two side by side images) of St Paul's Cathedral in sepia tones

Buttermere, from road to Scale Hill, looking S.E., by Alfred Pettitt

The work of various photographers including H.Petschler & Co. of Manchester (later Manchester Photographic Company), Alfred Pettitt of Keswick, Carlyle of Grasmere, W. Baldry of Grasmere, and R.J.Sproat of Grasmere.

The views are organised alphabetically by place name or area.

Part One - A-G

I collected these views c.1990, at a time when I enjoyed going for walking holidays in this beautiful part of England. I used the cards to provide an itinerary for my stays and frequently managed to reconstruct the views using a Nimslo 3D camera.

Part Two - H-Z

Views in the manner of Ogle & Edge by various photographers, including J.Garnett of Windermere and Alfred Pettitt of Keswick.

Part Three

A comfortable size for freeviewing (parallel viewing) the images in the linked pdf documents is 125% or 150%. This can be adjusted at the top right of the document.

Stereoviews replicate the way we see the world by taking two views of a scene, one from the right eye position and another from the left. When these are mounted together and viewed in a stereoscope, the brain merges them into a 3-dimensional or ‘stereoscopic’ image.

The technique emerged in the 1850s, soon after the invention of photography, through the work of Charles Wheatstone and Sir David Brewster, and developed into a worldwide craze with thousands of practitioners.

Stereo photography has gone out of fashion several times over the past couple of centuries, only to be rediscovered by later generations. Most of the images on this site are by European photographers working in the 1850s and 60s.

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