1981 Press Photo Gordon Hoffman looks at rare Lincoln pictures Green Lake

George D. Hoffman of Green Lake used a stereographic viewer (left) as he looked at one of the rare Abraham Lincoln pictures in his collection of stereographs. Hoffman started collecting the old three-dimensional cards in 1968 after finding some old ones in a house he was helping to raze. In 1972 he purchased a portion of a major collection that formed the nucleus of his current collection of about 25,000 views. His oldest photographs go back to the beginning of stereo photography in the United States in 1854. The collection follows history from those early years to the end of the commercial stereo in 1946 when a limited number of views were made of Harry S. Truman while he was president.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches. Photo is dated 11-18-1981.

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