Small French Viewers

In the early 1900's the French created a new design of stereoviews in 45 X 107 mm and the slightly larger 60 X 130 mm or 6 X 13 as it would become know. In 1907 Auguste and Louis Lumiere invented the first color photographs and they were called Autochromes. A huge variety of stereoscopes were developed for this new size and they were quite popular. Also for the first time an amateur could photograph his own stereoviews. The following photo's show a few of these viewers.

A variety of small viewers. Note the center viewer is also a Richards camera.

A Birds Eye Maple Case with 96 views of France in 6 X 13 format.

Three Omnium viewers and a walnut box of Autochromes.

Stereospect from Germany has a magazine for 12 views. Pressing a lever moves the next view in place and a new magazine is loaded for other views.