There’s a bit of everything: reel, slide, card, and filmstrip viewers. While a couple are from the early 20th century, this is mostly a mid-century group, including some top ones from our wishlist.

In this final “reveal”, we share all the Tru-Vue sales and advertising ephemera hiding in our Tru-Vue collection. Well, maybe not all, but most of it!

We underestimated this little 10-stereoview set! And we love resurfacing a good stereoscopic mystery, especially one involving Universal Pictures, Lon Chaney, and a possible Alfred Krauth connection.

In Part 2, we share history and highlights from our Tru-Vue filmstrip and card collection, including rare, early filmstrips, film box variations, and hard-to-find commercial cards.

This month’s stereoview spotlight takes a look at life and leisure in early 1900s Cincinnati, courtesy of the Whiting brothers.

New viewers, new viewer colors and a very rare roll of stereoviews. Take a look at what’s come in over the past few months.

This month’s stereoview spotlight features a creative, reflective way to get family members into a photo.

It’s an Omnium-fest here at Vintage 3D Viewers! Three beautiful wood & nickel Omnium stereoscopes have joined the collection.

We’re excited to finally offer Part 1 of a curated glimpse into our Tru-Vue sub-collection. You’ll need some time on your hands to absorb it all!

Buried in a 1920s set produced by The Standard Textile Products Co. was one stereoview that took our breath away.

We have no idea how many factories were documented inside Stereo-foto & Pendoplast viewers, but we’re excited to add 6 more factories to our collection of industrial 3D images.

Each of the stereoscopes in our latest update has a cool design feature. From lazy tongs to a 12-slide cartridge to a stereoscope-binocular combo — design creativity abounds!

An amateur (or perhaps famous) stereo photographer takes us traveling through 1931 with a group of his fellow adventurers.

This latest group of additions includes plastic, wood, metal, and cardboard vintage stereoscopes, covers glass, tissue, standard, and miniature card formats, and spans almost 100 years from the 1860s to the 1950s.

We’ve skipped a few months of collection updates but are making up for it with a nice selection of rarities. Most are completely new to our collection while a couple are only new to the website.

These unknown theater children are first up in Stereoview Spotlight, a new series of posts where we highlight interesting stereoviews in our collection.

We have a bunch of wooden handhelds threatening to walk out if we don’t feature them. We’ve also added a couple of rare metal viewers.

We finally found a filmstrip viewer that has eluded us for years! Plus, you may be shocked to learn that three View-Masters made it into our collection in the past 2 months — we certainly were!

With this month’s group of unique stereoscope designs, we’re almost positive there will be at least one you’ve never seen or heard of.

How have car manufacturers used 3D to advertise? We’ve brought together some examples from our collection.