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Today I bring you the stereoscopic viewer table Educa , manufactured by A. Mattey (leading manufacturer of stereoscopes late nineteenth and early twentieth). Mattey produced stereoscope under different brands, reserving the brand Unis France for those higher quality
This wooden display mac Iza dates from around 1920 and was created for educational purposes, so its design is really solid and easy to use. This type of viewers were often used in schools as school materials
in addition to this viewer includes in its bottom compartment door where you can store the glass plates of the series" La France" which includes the display of our collection . It is 42 plates 13x18cms, each with 12 pairs of photographic thumbnails for stereo display, ie in total add 504 stereo photos.
There is no doubt that this type of viewers were a very useful tool when displaying a vision comprehensive of France in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth-and also in 3D! the development of stereoscopic photography allowed our ancestors to know countless impossible places to visit at that time.
As always this piece of history of stereoscopic photography is at your disposal in the museum