Stereograph - J.P. Doremus Floating Photograph Gallery

Osceola, Wisconsin, albumen prints on oversized orange mount, 4 3/8 x 7 ", show a large floating skylight studio painted on the side "Doremus" Photograph Gallery, Mississippi Views" and imprinted on the back "The subscriber has built a Floating Photograph Gallery, at a cost, with its appurtenances of over $4000, intending to take views of the Mississippi and its tributaries, from the Falls of St. Anthony to the Gulf of Mexico." A rare stereo card of a photographer's studio. This stereograph is illustrated in The History Of Photography As Seen Through The Spira Collection, page 60. See also: The Palimpsest, Iowa's Popular History Magazine, Vol.73, No.2, Summer 1992. "J.P. Doremus and his Floating Photograph Gallery"