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A Holmes stereoscope, the most popular form of 19th century stereoscope. In 1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes created and deliberately did not patent a handheld, streamlined, much more economical viewer than had been available before. The stereoscope, which dates from the 1850s, consisted of two prismatic lenses and a wooden stand to hold the stereo card.
Garnet Pool near Glen House in New Hampshire Boston Museum City Hall Old City Hall Quincy Market Horticultural Hall Mount Washington (New Hampshire) cog railroad. Joseph L. Bates (1806 or 1807 – March 2, 1886) was an American merchant and manufacturer based in Boston specializing in musical instruments, umbrellas, stereoscopic photographs and viewers, and fancy goods.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
Bolton was connected with another early stereo-photographer, Franklin L. White of Lancaster, New Hampshire, who published a view list of glass stereographs in 1859. Early period Kilburn stereoviews were sold by Joseph L. Bates, [4] a retail outlet which specialized in Oliver Wendell Holmes stereo-viewers at his location on Washington Street ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. [A] Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American ...
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 American biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his 1946 play of the same title, which was in turn adapted from the 1942 book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle. The story examines the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), poet, physician, and essayist, father of the judge; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, son of the essayist; Oliver Wendell Holmes (archivist) (1902–1981), American archivist and historian
Includes an account of the Club and individualized accounts of Chauncey Wright, Nicholas St. John Green, Charles Sanders Peirce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Joseph Bangs Warner, along with bibliographies, complete ones in the cases of Wright and Green. Presentation by Menand on The Metaphysical Club, June 6, 2001