Description
Comprising over 9,100 items, the
majority of which are card stereographs (mounted photographic prints), the Israel Stollman
collection of stereographs focuses on views of cities and urban areas, especially in the
United States. As such the collection is not only a significant resource on the development
of modern urban sites, but it also encapsulates the history of the production of
stereographs, which flourished from the 1850s through the 1930s. The collection also
contains a small number of transparencies and images printed on glass in the form of
stereographs and lantern slides, a collection of stereo viewers, and small amount of related
ephemera.
Background
Israel Stollman, FAICP, was an American urban planner. He was born in 1923 on the Lower
East Side of New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Stollman completed a BS in
social science with an independent major in housing and planning from City College of New
York in 1947 after taking two-and-one-half years off during World War II to serve in the
Army Air Corps. The following year he received a master's degree in city planning from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Extent
61.4 Linear Feet
(84 boxes, 2 flatfile folders, 1 roll)
Restrictions
Contact Library Reproductions and Permissions.
Availability
Open for use by qualified researchers.