Rare C. 1880s Stereoview of Hartford State Capital Main Stairway Mottahedeh dog or given as a gift

or given as a gift to a fellow student or teacher of the artist’s at the Technic Institute in Nairobi--the address of which is noted on reverse--who brought it back to the states

I found this one in Kansas City and take her for a saint

I found one record of a Harvey Stoughton of Windsor Connecticut

in excellent vintage condition (photos are shot through the glass of the frame

which I believe is carved of pine

Rare C. 1880s Stereoview of Hartford State Capital Main Stairway Mottahedeh dog or given as a giftAnother antique stereoview that I like for the geometries and almost Escher esque sense of infinite continuum, existent with the CT State Capital staircase to begin with but much amplified by the double image. At the time the image was taken, the state capital designed by prominent architect Richard M. Upjohn in a high Victorian gothic style had just recently been completed (1879), so this was an early framing of what has since become an iconic