South African war through the stereoscope. With stereoscopic viewer.

76 stereoscope cards, 177 x 88 mm, with printed caption under the picture and on verso (in different languages).

Housed in the original book-like slipcase (sl. dusty, some sm. def.).

Fine collection of 76 stereoscope cards depicting primarily war scenes from the South African War (Anglo-Boer War). Most of the images deal with the action on the north-eastern frontier of the Cape between November 1899 and February 1900 including scenes from Hanover, Naauwpoort, Dordrecht or Arundel and Rensburg (South of Colesburg). U & U photographers were also present on the march to Kimberley, at the surrender of General Cronje at Paardeberg, at the occupation of Bloemfontein, on the march through the Free State towards Johannesburg and the triumphant entry into Pretoria. Images of the Natal campaign (siege of Ladysmith), battlegrounds of Colenso and Spioenkop are also included. Underwood & Underwood was founded by two brothers in 1881 in Ottawa, Kansas: Elmer and Bert Elias Underwood.
Included in this lot is an original wooden stereoscopic viewer which creates a three-dimensional effect if the two images on a stereoscopic card are in the precise point of the axis on the viewer.