Cornell University Library Digital Collections

Icelandic Stereoscopes

Stereoscope photographic prints from Iceland

This collection from the Fiske Icelandic Collection, Cornell University Library, includes 213 stereoscopic printed images taken by the photographer Magnús Ólafsson (1862-1937) and his studio, Ljósmyndastofa Magnúsar Ólafssonar (Reykjavík). The images, largely landscapes, appear to date from before ca. 1918; a few bear caption dates of 1910 or 1911. (Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, Manuscript Material, Correspondence, and Graphic Material in the Fiske Icelandic Collection, Islandica 48 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), 258.)