Anonymous - Porto - Palácio de Cristal

It is known that Manuel José de Sousa Ferreira, one of the photographers that were active in Oporto during the 1860's, produced a series of stereoviews showing the international exhibition that was held at the Crystal Palace when it was inaugurated [Serén 2001, pp. 35-51], and examples of those cards are shown in the listing that refers to this Portuguese photographer. They are however considerably different from the type illustrated below, which have a printed backside describing all the views in this series. Regrettably, the stereographer responsible for these images is not identified. The only card that has so far come to my knowledge is represented below:

	Dark yellow flat card mount with round-corner images (courtesy of Nuno Borges de Araújo).
	Backside of the card above, presenting the titles comprised in this series.

Further reading:

[Serén 2001]
Maria do Carmo Serén, O Porto e os seus Fotógrafos, Porto Editora, 337 p., 2001, ISBN 972-0-06269-X.

(see the views)

ANTIQUE STEREOVIEWS OF PORTUGAL
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