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You are bidding on an original Stereoview/Stereograph SV card, titled: Mauch Chunk and Mt Pisgah, Lehigh Valley, PA. by Moulton A. Kleckner, card #101, 1870s.
Looking at this Stereoview through a Viewer, is like using Google 3D when looking at a Map.
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Notes:
Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk, a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original profile of the ridge, which has since been changed heavily by 220 years of mining. The company town was founded by Josiah White and his two partners, founders of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N). The town would be the lower terminus of a gravity railroad, the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad, which would bring coal to the head of the LC&N Lehigh Canal for transshipment to the confluence of the Delaware River, 43 kilometres (26.7 mi) downstream at Easton. It would thereby ship LC&N's coal to Philadelphia, Trenton, New York City, and other large cities in New Jersey and Delaware, and by ocean to the whole East Coast. Canal shipping was eventually replaced by railroad shipping. (ref. wikipedia)
Notable people
- Edward Fister, pioneer of radar
- Hob Hiller, Major League Baseball player
- Denny Mack, Major League Baseball player & manager
- A. J. Petrucci, professional wrestler
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Size: 3.5" by 7"
Subjects: Historic, Coal Industry, Architecture, Buildings, Hotel - Mansion House, St Mark's Episcopal Church, Town View, Nature, Lehigh River, Lehigh Valley, Trees, Mountains, Railroad, Index on the back
Photographer/Publisher: Moulton A. Kleckner, Mansion House, Mauch Chunk, PA. (1843-1922). I have attached an obituary for Mouton and his tombstone from where he is buried (for reference only).
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Date: circa 1870's.
Info:
Stereoscopy or Stereoviews have two nearly identical images mounted side by side and were taken by a Stereo Camera. When looked at through a stereo viewer they give a three-dimensional image. Most popular from 1850’s to 1930’s and they usually measure about 3 ½" by 7" (please see images).
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Condition: VG/EX-EX (Edge & corner wear, Staining), (please see the images).
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