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Correspondence, business accounts, and stereopticon views of central New York, the Cornell University campus, Ithaca homes, and foreign scenes. Includes material relating to Eagles' photographic supply company in Ithaca. Related family material includes description of hard times in Ithaca, and farm accounts of W. H. Sebring of Dundee, Yates County, and David Gannon of Marilla, Michigan.

Scope and content Items including 4 postcards (one of them hand colored), 2 stereo cards, and a pamphlet, "Panorama of the river St. Lawrence, from Niagara Falls to Quebec" (New York, 1860?). The postcards show scenes from Seattle, Washington; Concord, Massachusetts; and the home and gravesite of President William McKinley. The stereo cards show the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders (the United States First Volunteer Cavalry regiment) in Tampa, Florida (1898) and President McKinley reviewing the...

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Stereoscopic views of scenes, buildings, people, and occupations in Ceylon produced by the Stereo-Travel Company, 1908; Underwood & Underwood , 1902; the Keystone View Company, n.d., with captions on back; Strohmeyer & Wyman,1896 and 1899; and Realistic Travels Publishers , n.d. Views of India by Keystone, Underwood & Underwood, and H. C. White Company, 1907 (1). Also , a few views of Ankor Wat, Cambodia (2); Bangkok, Siam (3); and Burma (3) all by Keystone View Company.

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Stereoscopic photographs of urban and rural scenes from Palestine, including Hebron, Jerusalem, Bethany, Bethlehem, the Valley of Kedron, and the Village of Siloam, many depicting the sites of events in the Bible. The scenes include images of social life, native and local people in their customary dress, and significant buildings.