Views in a sequence simulating an around-the-world tour, beginning in New York, showing Broadway, Brooklyn Bridge, the Bowery and a crowd waving to a ship, and proceeding through Ireland (Blarney Castle, Giant's Causeway), Scotland, England (Houses of Parliament, London Bridge), Denmark (interior at Frederiksborg Castle), Norway (Palace at Christiana and a mountain road), Sweden (general view of Stockholm), Russia (fountains at Peterhof Palace), Germany (women at a cafe, castle on the Rhine, market in Cologne, Linderhof Castle), canal in Amsterdam, Belgium (cathedral and catacombs in Brussels), France (Champs Elysees, and interior at Fontainbleau), Monaco (general view of Monte Carlo, salon in a casino), Switzerland (street and clock in Berne, Axenstrasse, Interlaken and Jungfrau), Austria (salon in Lichtenstein Palace, Vienna, women in the Tyrol), Venice, Rome (St. Peter's, interior of Vatican Library), Egypt (mosque in Cairo, road to pyramids, sphinx, camel and Pyramid of Chefren, Temple at Karnak), Palestine (Garden of Gesthemane, Elijah Convent, general view of Jerusalem), a temple in Calcutta, street in Manila, boats moored on Chukiang River in Canton, Japan (Mikado's Castle, picking tea, Shrine of Dai Butsu, Kamakura), Hawaii (banana plantation, people eating poi), California (Seal Rocks, Mariposa Grove, tourists in Yosemite), Colorado (Pike's Peak, Royal Gorge) stockyard in Chicago; picking cotton in Louisiana; Cuba (Morro Castle, tobacco plantation).
The tour, continued: Puerto Rico (Governor's Palace), pineapples in Florida, U.S. Capitol, Niagara Falls, market in Montreal, family group looking at pictures in front of a hearth.
Title from box. Accompanying booklet titled "A trip around the world through the stereoscope," copyright, 1902. views are copyright 1894-1902. Some views copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman.
Captions on verso of stereographs are in English, French German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Views are numbered 1-72.
Provenance (note)
Gift of Mrs. George R. Collins, 1993.
Author
Underwood & Underwood, publisher.
Title
A trip around the world [graphic] / Underwood & Underwood.
Imprint
New York, London, etc. : Underwood & Underwood, 1894-1902.