Luke O'Reilly Stereo Cards

Title

Luke O'Reilly Stereo Cards

Description

These photographs, taken by Randolph professional photographer Luke O'Reilly throughout the 1870s, are of a type called "stereographs" or "stereo cards". The card consists of two images; the one on the left is designed to be seen with the left eye and the one on the right is designed to be seen with the right eye. When viewed through a special viewer called a stereoscope, the images combined to make the scene look three-dimensional. O'Reilly's images show how the town's main streets looked in the 1870s, including a few views of the town from above taken from church steeples. Several images also capture a train wreck that occurred in 1876, when a train on the Boston-Fall River line crashed into empty cars that had been stored on a too-short siding and derailed.

Creator

Luke O'Reilly

Publisher

Randolph Historical Commission

Date

1870-1876

Contributor

Randolph Historical Commission
Kate Tardiff, archivist intern

Identifier

0000.62

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