Before the Agencies: The Victorian Picture Factory

How photographs first became a mass business: Disdéri’s carte-de-visite empire, the London Stereoscopic Company, Underwood & Underwood’s global trade — the publishers who sold pictures before anyone called them agencies.

Playlist by @picture_agency_birth

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The 19th Century Craze for Stereoscopic Photography - Ian Christie — Gresham College
2. The story of stereoscopy and the Victorian fascination with 3D photographs — Westminster City Council
3. Photography: A Victorian Sensation – Stereography — NationalMuseumsScotland
4. "A Village Lost and Found" by Brian May & Elena Vidal ... The London Stereoscopic Company [Part 1] — London Stereo Company
5. DIABLERIES - Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell — London Stereo Company
6. Disdéri : le géant oublié de la photographie [#NSF 365] — Nath-Sakura Channel
7. Mathew Brady's Vision — Smithsonian Magazine
8. AF-232: Mathew Brady: Photographing the Civil War | Ancestral Findings Podcast — Ancestral Findings
9. Mathew Brady: America's First Photojournalist — Historical Journeys with Dale Blanshan
10. Mathew Brady's Photographic Studio - Clara Barton's Neighborhood — National Museum of Civil War Medicine
11. Let's Look at Victorian Stereoviews! — The Wonder Room
12. Andrew Lauren: Underwood & Underwood: Beyond The Third Dimension — Virtual Stereoscopic Community
13. A tour of the world through the stereoscope. Underwood and Underwood. — johnrshort
14. Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum in 3D - Keystone View Company Meadville, Pennsylvania anaglyph 3D — Variety Films