Tru-Vue Viewer--Stereoscopic Filmstrips and Viewer--Black Hills, 1941
Content Description
The collection consists of one Tru-Vue viewer, case, and three filmstrips. Tru-Vue was a Rock Island (IL) company that manufactured stereoscopic filmstrips and viewers from 1931-1951. The photographs and titles are credited to a James Sawders. The three filmstrips are titled Black Hills Series 1, 2, & 3. Each filmstrip has two images which creates a 3D effect. The images date to 1941 in showing the construction of the Yate’s Shaft at the Homestake Mine and with the finishing work on Mount Rushmore. Images from Black Hills Series 1 include the watch tower on Mount Roosevelt, the State Game Lodge (Summer Whitehouse for Calvin Coolidge), Devil’s Tower (WY), Bear Butte, highway through Spearfish Canyon, Mounty Terry, Roughlock Falls, Homestake Mine (Lead, S.D.), Deadwood (S.D.), graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, highway through Boulder Canyon, and Bridal Veil Falls in Crystal Cave. Black Hills Series 2 includes Rapid City (S.D.) and Dinosaur Park, Hangman’s Hills, panning for gold near Keystone (S.D.), Crag of Jesset, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Gutzon Borglum’s working model of Mount Rushmore, Mount Rushmore construction, proposed hall of records behind Mount Rushmore, and workers at Mount Rushmore. Black Hills Series 3 images include the Needles Highway, Sylvan Lake, and Badlands. The viewer, case, and filmstrips will be placed in the vault.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- 1941
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet
- Badlands -- South Dakota. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bear Butte (Mountain) -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Hills -- South Dakota. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Construction -- South Dakota -- Mount Rushmore National Memorial -- 1930-1940 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Crystal Cave Park (S.D.) Subject Source: Local sources
- Custer State Park (S.D.) -- Game Lodge Subject Source: Local sources
- Deadwood (S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Devils Tower National Monument (Wyo.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dinosaur Park (Rapid City, S.D.) Subject Source: Local sources
- Hickok, James "Wild Bill"
- Homestake Mine (Lead, S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Jane, Calamity
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Needles Highway -- Black Hills -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph Collection -- Manuscript Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Rapid City (S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Spearfish Canyon -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
