Stereo Card Banff Hotel

From Swift Current Museum

Accession Number 1973.27.14

Description Stereoscopic card for a stereoscope. The card bears two almost identical photographs, which appear three-dimensional when the image is viewed through a stereoscope. The image was taken in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, and is of a hotel in a forest. The caption reads: "13849 - Banff Springs Hotel and River Bow, Banff, Canada". There is more information about the Banff Springs Hotel written on the back of the card.

Materials Cardboard; Photographic Paper

Marks/Labels "Keystone View Company. // Manufacturers & Publishers. Copyright 1904 by B.L. Singley" is printed on one end of the card, and "Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., San Francisco, Cal., Toronto, Can., New York, N.Y., London, England" is printed on the other side.

Category Tools and Equipment for Communication, Documentary Artifact, Stereograph