Coral divers on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of Coral divers on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Coral divers on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Coral divers on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, make an unusual subject for a stereograph, since the reef was far from most American viewers in the 1920s. The card was issued by Keystone View Company, a large American publisher that sold stereoviews of landscapes, cities and foreign places, which were viewed through a hand-held stereoscope to create a three-dimensional effect. The record dates the image to about 1924, though that date comes from an unverified caption card. Seen together, the pair of images would have given armchair travelers a sense of depth and distance beneath the water's surface.
| Created / published | c1924 April 18. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | J268742 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 24343. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Coral; Ph. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 773 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157948 |
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