University of Chicago, front view, No. 142 from the series "Views of Chicago and Vicinity"
1890 · Albumen print, stereo
Each image: 8 × 7.6 cm (3 3/16 × 3 in.); Card: 8.6 × 17 cm (3 7/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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John Carbutt
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Photographs of the Civil War and the American Frontier
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942
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John Carbutt was an English photographer and businessman. He created stereograms of his excursions in Minnesota, along the Mississippi River, Niagara Falls, and the Rocky Mountains. He worked as a photographer for the Grand Trunk Railway and the Chicago and North Western Railway. He was the official photographer of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad during the construction of their transcontinental railroad lines.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago
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