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Royal Exchange / by the London Stereoscopic Company. – Vintage Photo Print

Royal Exchange / by the London Stereoscopic Company., 110 and 108 Regent Street & 54 Cheapside : London Stereoscopic Company, [between 1855 and 1865] — historic photograph
Royal Exchange / by the London Stereoscopic Company., 110 and 108 Regent Street & 54 Cheapside : London Stereoscopic Company, [between 1855 and 1865]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Royal Exchange / by the London Stereoscopic Company., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Royal Exchange was the great meeting place of London's merchants and financiers, and this stereograph records the building at the heart of the City's commerce. The London Stereoscopic Company issued the card as part of its Views of London and vicinity series, made for the parlor stereoscope that was a fixture of middle-class Victorian homes. A fire had destroyed the earlier building in 1838, and the replacement, designed by William Tite, opened in 1844, so the picture shows a comparatively new structure. Seen through a stereoscope, the two slightly offset images merge into one three-dimensional view.

Created / published110 and 108 Regent Street & 54 Cheapside : London Stereoscopic Company, [between 1855 and 1865]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1850-1870.
NotesGift; Geo. B. Williams; 1909; (DLC/PP-1909:43859). Series: Views of London and vicinity, no. 9. Title from label on back of mount.
SubjectsRoyal Exchange (London, England) Stock exchanges--England--London--1850-1870. Financial facilities--England--London--1850-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 731 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167633

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