WWI French Glass Photo Slides with Viewer

[thefight]

I found this at a local militaria store and I have never seen one of these before. It has 29 slides mostly of French soldiers, German prisoners, some American troops, and even a dead German. It is interesting because when you put the slides into the viewer the pictures have depth to them, like you are looking through the camera and not at a picture. Some of the slides have dates and places written on them.

Has anyone else seen anything like this? I am interested in learning more about it and maybe find some more slides to look at.

Thanks for the help,

Alec

[Walkwolf]

3D viewers were quite popular back when, but yours is for glass slides,
which are likely harder to find than the card versions. A similar type of
viewer was popular in the 50's and 60's - known as 'Viewmaster'.

I'd check Ebay frequently, as there are a multitude of items and you
never know when something like 'antique 3D glass slides'
might show up for sale.........

[thefight]

I had no idea that they had things like this back then, very interesting and much better than photos. It looks like there is a few glass slides on ebay right now.

Thanks,

Alec

[kc1]

The Victorians were very much into these stereo scope viewers, scenery and the like. If you have a way i'd make copies from the slides as some of the methods used can fade with time and light and it would be a shame to lose them now.