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Polyorama Panoptique Lorchette Enchantée

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Date: about 1855
Medium: Color lithograph
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Viewing stereographs was a popular pastime that was first introduced in the 1850s. These pairs of photographic images set on a single support were designed to educate as well as entertain. This photograph, probably part of a series for children, plays optical tricks on the viewer as he or she tries to uncover the words and forms locked in this device. Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef

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