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This section provides a range of texts from the nineteenth century that deal, in some way, with visual interpretation. Some texts refer to the experience of seeing a thing, while others deal with a particular apparatus that constructs a particular way of seeing, such as the stereoscope. Thus, art and invention work together to provide some sense of what vision was understood to be in the 19th century. As with the image page, selections are predominantly from American sources.
 
Abbott, Jacob - The Negative in Photography (1870) HTML PDF
Cole, Thomas
- Essay on American Scenery (1835) HTML PDF
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- The Stereoscope and the Stereograph (1859) HTML PDF
Towler, J. - The Silver Sunbeam (1864) HTML


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