Descriptive Summary
Title:
Keystone-Mast Collection, 1870-1963
Collection Number:
1996.0009
Creator:
Keystone View Company
Extent:
The physical collection consists of 250,000 stereoscopic glass-plate and
film negatives and 100,000 vintage prints
42,027 digital items available online
Repository:
UCR/California Museum of Photography
Riverside, California 92521
Abstract:
UCR-California Museum of Photography faces the challenge of
providing ready, useful and intellectual access to a valuable body of cultural and
educational resources of interest to the general public and scholars alike.
Consisting of 250,000 stereoscopic glass-plate and film negatives and 100,000
vintage prints, UCR-California Museum of Photography's Keystone-Mast Collection is
the archive of the Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA (active from 1892-1963).
As a collection, it is the world's largest body of original stereoscopic negatives
and prints providing an encyclopedic view of global cultural history. Formed over
the period of the United States' emergence as a world power, Keystone-Mast not only
chronicles an age, it also represents in pictures a dominant point of view about the
world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is an important tool for
among others, anthropologists, art historians, cultural studies scholars,
historians, political scientists and sociologists.
The Keystone-Mast Collection Guide 2003 provides online access to
approximately twenty percent (approximately 28,872) of the total stereographic
collection. To date, it represents content from the following geopolitical subject
areas: entries from North America, from Central America, from West Indies (Caribbean
Islands), from South America, from Oceania, from Asia, from Africa, and from the
Middle East. When finished, the collection guide will consist of well over 100,000
online stereoviews complete with metadata.
UCR/CMP's 2007-2008 Keystone-Mast digitization
initiative, which was completed through a National Endowment for the Humanities
Preservation and Access grant, has contributed an additional 13,155 stereoscopic
views of the Middle East and southern Asia, including views of Algeria, Egypt,
India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey.
Language:
English
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