A look at the earliest View-Master state tour packets
From state capitals to important industry, View-Master provided a bird's eye view of each state in the 1950s and '60s.
I’ve been working on collecting all the U.S. state tour packets — there’s 50, of course, (plus Washington, DC) and there are at least two versions of each state packet — often more! The variants feel kind of endless. But I recently completed getting all 50 (-ish, I’ll explain later) of the two primary packet styles, pictured here:
These packets offer a t…