Isle of Guernsey Stereo Views

Browse 89 original Isle of Guernsey stereo views, circa 1860-1900, beside their colorized companions, with each image able to be enlarged and examined on its own.

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How Stereograph 3D Images Work – Then and now

Stereoscopes and stereograph cards were a popular form of home entertainment from the 1860s into the early 1900s.

Each stereograph card carries two nearly identical photographs, one meant to be seen only by the left eye and the other one for the right. When viewed with an old-fashioned stereoscope, the brain combines the two images into a single three-dimensional scene.

Today these old stereographs can also be adapted for computer screens. Red-cyan glasses separate the left-eye and right-eye images again, allowing the versions shown on this page to recreate the depth effect without an original stereoscope viewer.

Example of a stereograph card with paired images.
Old Guernsey stereograph card
Traditional stereoscope viewer holding a stereograph card.
Old-fashioned stereograph 3D viewer
An anaglyph stereograph adapted for modern computer-screen viewing.
Modern computer 3D image
Red-cyan glasses used to separate anaglyph stereo images.
Modern computer 3D viewing glasses

Controls:Mouse wheel: enlarge any imageClick-and-drag: move enlarged imageClick caption: full-screen mode'L' / 'R' / 'S': left, right, stereo