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Early Photographic Stereo Images

Stereo photography’s roots go back to 1841 when Henry Fox Talbot and Henry Collen were making pairs of photographs for viewing in Sir Charles Wheatstone’s stereoscope. By 1851, Sir David Brewster had invented a stereoscope that mimicked human vision, and, in the late 1800s stereoviews became a part of daily life.