he Harbor Emergency Hospital on the waterfront (long a factor in the city’s care of the victims of accidents and broils) was filled from the first. The injured and sick and dying were taken there in large numbers from the charnel-house south of Market. While the fire was burning hottest all around, the attendants worked away, unmindful of the danger. Ambulances and patrol wagons hurried the patients to the hospital, while others waited to remove them should it become necessary.”
–Frank W. Aitken and Edward Hilton, A History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco, 1906
he first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced. The mind feels its way into the very depths of the picture. The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would scratch our eyes out. The elbow of a figure stands forth so as to make us almost uncomfortable. Then there is such a frightful amount of detail, that we have the same sense of infinite complexity which Nature gives us.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and stereoscope inventor, 1859
ooks describe places, scenes, subjects,—but it is the mission of the stereograph to reproduce with absolute fidelity the thing itself, presenting the reality, not an imitation, so that the mind receives the same impression as in the bodily presence of the object,—an imprint that is never effaced.”
–H. C. White, America's premier maker of stereo views, 1907
he Harbor Emergency Hospital on the waterfront (long a factor in the city’s care of the victims of accidents and broils) was filled from the first. The injured and sick and dying were taken there in large numbers from the charnel-house south of Market. While the fire was burning hottest all around, the attendants worked away, unmindful of the danger. Ambulances and patrol wagons hurried the patients to the hospital, while others waited to remove them should it become necessary.”
ooks describe places, scenes, subjects,—but it is the mission of the stereograph to reproduce with absolute fidelity the thing itself, presenting the reality, not an imitation, so that the mind receives the same impression as in the bodily presence of the object,—an imprint that is never effaced.”
