#17 This stereo card is labeled “Finley & Sons, Photographers, Canandaigua, N.Y.” On the back is a label “View at Sonnenberg, the residence of F.F.Thompson, Canandaigua, N.Y.” and in ink “The Glass Bubble”. Reflected in the gazing ball is a house and garden, a stereo camera on a tripod and two men reclining on the path. The “Artistic” size mount suggests a 1870s date.

Pride of the Profession: 19th Century Photographers Posing with Their Cameras

#17 This stereo card is labeled “Finley & Sons, Photographers, Canandaigua, N.Y.” On the back is a label “View at Sonnenberg, the residence of F.F.Thompson, Canandaigua, N.Y.” and in ink “The Glass Bubble”. Reflected in the gazing ball is a house and garden, a stereo camera on a tripod and two men reclining on the path. The “Artistic” size mount suggests a 1870s date.

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