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Category: Short essays

Posted on 21 July 202221 July 2022

Highlights from the Honorat Negatives (dans la région de VERDUN)

A preview of 10 highlights from the Honorat Collection, consisting of nearly 200 examples of amateur French stereography of the Great War.

Posted on 25 September 202025 September 2020

Why I Love Amateur Glass Stereoviews: 7 Great War Slides from France

Header image from an amateur glass stereoview

Long-time readers of Brooklyn Stereography should be unsurprised that I love amateur glass stereoviews. In this article, I use a set of seven received earlier this week to highlight exactly why.

Posted on 1 May 20202 May 2020

May Day 2020: Berkshire Knitting Mills 1924: The Nazis of Reading, PA, in 3D

In the 1920s, change was brewing right here in the USA - by industry barons secretly (or not-so-secretly) in league with Adolf Hitler's Nazi party.

Posted on 13 August 201919 August 2019

One-shot #33 – Fixing up a Nieuport 10 Sesquiplane by A.O. Fasser

Header image by A. O. Fasser - a Nieuport XB Biplane

Doctor A. O. Fasser took this 3D photo of two men fixing up a tire on a Nieuport 10, most likely in the spring of 1916. Here we take a look at the sesquiplane, before taking a look at the importance of negatives - both in general, and relative to the Fasser Collection.

Posted on 3 August 20199 September 2019

German A7V Tanks: The “Mephisto” and the “Elfriede”

The Germans were late to bring tanks to the Great War; while the Allies built over 5,000, the Germans built a mere 20. This essay examines the history of those 20 A7V-class tanks, and takes a closer, stereoscopic look at two of them.

Posted on 24 July 201924 July 2019

The Second Battle of Verdun: Scorched Earth Around Esnes-en-Argonne 1917

A month-long French offensive known as the Second Battle of Verdun is the subject of this 10-slide series put out by the SDV division of LSU. Featuring scenes from the recaptured regions surrounding Esnes, the series really portrays the devastation caused by 4 million shells impacting a region localized around a few miles of space.

Posted on 20 July 201924 July 2019

One-shot #31: La StĂ©rĂ©oscopie Universelle (LSU)’s SDV division really steps in it…

Bad puns aside, LSU really screwed the pooch on a 45x107mm glass plate stereoview - not only did they print the image horizontally reversed, but they managed to rotate the right-hand frame of the stereo pair by 180º. In this post, we explore the printing process that must have been employed by LSU in making an extremely goofy glass plate.

Posted on 29 June 201919 October 2019

One-shot #29: 1915 Capture of an Albatros B.II by Sgt Navarre and Lt Robert

On 1 April 1915, an MoS-3 piloted by Sergeant Jean Navarre took to the skies - where it encountered a German Albatros B.II. Some sharpshooting by the observer, Lieutenant Jean Robert, brought down the biplane - leading to the capture of the craft and its occupants, and the first victory for the MS 12 Escadrille, and medals for Navarre and Robert.

Posted on 21 June 201921 June 2019

One-shot #28: Camouflaged English batteries (LSU no. 9198)

Sometimes, whilst one is sorting through a newly acquired collection, a new slide or card proves just captivating - and one winds up just admiring it through their favorite stereoscope for minutes on end. This was one from my latest acquisition which had this effect on me.

Posted on 11 June 2019

“La DĂ©livrance”, part of the Nantes Memorial to the War Dead, in 1927

"La Délivrance", the statue that was at the center of the Nantes Memorial to the War Dead, was also at the center of a lot of controversy. Placed in July of 1927, it was torn down by far-right wing vandals - not to be restored for 91 years, on the Armistice Centenary.

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