Keystone View Company
Looking up an Angle of the Great Pyramid, Showing the Difficulties of its Ascent, Egypt

Looking up an Angle of the Great Pyramid, Showing the Difficulties of its Ascent, Egypt

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Looking up an Angle of the Great Pyramid, Showing the Difficulties of its Ascent, Egypt
ManufacturerAmerican, active 1892–1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Looking up an Angle of the Great Pyramid, Showing the Difficulties of its Ascent, Egypt
  • from "A Trip Around the World Through the Stereoscope" VOL. V-VIII
Datec. 1914
PlaceMeadville, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumGelatin silver stereograph
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 3 in. (7.9 × 7.6 cm)
 Mount: 3 1/2 × 7 in. (8.9 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of William J. Hill
Object number2004.1220.129
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Object Type
ProvenanceWilliam J. Hill, Houston; given to MFAH, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed center recto: "234"

Printed on the left edge of the mount:
"Keystone View Company / Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood / Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers"

Printed on the right edge of the mount:
"Meadwille, Pa., New York, N.Y. / Chicago, Ill., London, England."

Numbered and titled lower right:
"9869 T Looking up an Angle of the Great Pyramid, / Showing the Difficulties of its Ascent, Egypt."


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