Group of stereoview photographs featuring Victorian genre scenes, street views, and decorative sculpture subjects produced by nineteenth-century stereographic publishers. One stereograph shows a street scene titled “A Hurdy-gurdy Man in the Lovely Little Town of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England,” while another depicts a busy urban sidewalk scene labeled Broadway, New York.
A studio stereograph by J. W. & J. S. Moulton of Salem, Massachusetts, presents a sculptural figure group of a man operating a street organ with a child nearby. Other views include landscaped garden scenes with seated figures and a staged domestic composition titled “Music for a Cent.”
These stereographs represent the wide range of subjects produced for the popular stereoscopic market, including travel scenes, urban street life, theatrical compositions, and decorative art subjects designed for parlor viewing.
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