The Iowa Bibliophiles Study 19th Century Photography

At the next meeting of the "Bibliophiles" in the Special Collections Reading Room, Third Floor of University of Iowa Main Librar,) Paul Juhl will be presenting a program that centers on nineteenth century photography. Although not a photographer himself, Paul has amassed a large collection of early Iowa images and will share with our group information concerning not only the earliest types of photography but also marketing techniques used by the early photographers to prosper in their trade. Many interesting stories accompany the people who made up this profession and the choices of images that they made during the early decades of the “art.” There will be special emphasis on Paul’s favorite type of photography – stereography – that produced the three dimensional image viewed through the stereoscope that some of us remember from childhood.  Looking carefully at a historical image in whatever form can reveal many things and tell us much about the daily life of the people living at that time.