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Here’s an archive of VIew-Master posts. Most posts are paywalled after three months but I’ve made a few exceptions to ensure information is shared widely.

Collecting & Conservation

Learn about the history of View-Master here

The Artists Behind View-Master's Diorama Scenes

The History of View-Master Packets

A look at the earliest View-Master state tour packets

Montyne's Innovative, Savage and Sexy View-Master Work

A Short History of View-Master’s Woody Woodpecker Packets

Happy Thanksgiving!

Take a 1955 tour of the USA

A Map of Each U.S. State and Much More

You Belong Among the Wildflowers

It's Baseball Season!

You Know, I'm Something of a Scientist Myself

This Barbie is a View-Master

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in View-Master Reels

View-Master’s Personal Stereo Camera System

How to Repair a View-Master Packet

View-Master Corporate Archive Digitization Underway

View-Master's Dimensional Learning Series

A View-Master Christmas Rarity

A Visual Guide to View-Master Scenic North Pole and Santa-Themed Reels

View-Master's Old-Time Stereo Collection

Modern Product Releases & Movie News

New View-Master Products Alert!

Disney 100 View-Master: Limited Release!

Unboxing the Mickey Mouse View-Master Reissue Box Set

New Product Alert: Funko Pop View-Master

New View-Master Merchandise!

Like View-Master and Love Horror Films?

View-Master Movie in Development!

Behind the Reels

I research the people and places behind the View-Master reels

The Father of Mini Golf

What's the longest running animated show in TV history?

Montyne: The Bigger than Life Artist, Sculptor and Sideshow Performer

Go Inside 1980s View-Master Factories

Inside a View-Master Factory in the 1950s

The Greatest Show on Earth

Lowell Thomas Part I: More Than a Disembodied Head

Lowell Thomas Part II: A Legendary Career and Life

The Dealerscope Archive

Reprinting articles and photos from internal View-Master publications

How View-Master Came to Use Clay Figures in Kids’ Reels

View-Master Window Display, 1948

One Spot, Seven States

A View-Master Prescription

3D Tabletop Photography Tricks of 1948

Optimism justified at last!

A Look Back at the Black Friday Push

Merry Christmas from Sawyer's, December 1951

Akron, Ohio, Orphans Loved View-Master!

The Rupert Leach Collection

I purchased 100 personal View-Master reels that belonged to Rupert Leach, the Director of Photography for View-Master in the 1950s. I’m working to share them all with my fellow collectors.

The Private Photos of a Master of 3D Photography

Solved: The Mystery of Connie V. Masters

Unpublished photos from The Greatest Show on Earth

Let's Tour the World with View-Master's Photographer in 1947

Climbing to the Highest Point in Europe

Our Heroes Stay in Switzerland

A Trip to Clovelly on Donkeys

At Home with a Key D-Day Planner

At home in England in the 1950s

A Trip to Sissinghurst Castle

Tootling around Devon

A Fishing Trip to Devon, England

In Search of the Holy Grail in Glastonbury

Among the ruins at Glastonbury Abbey

Five Floral Days in May

A last look at Glastonbury

Kew Gardens

London Calling

Westminster Abbey in the 1950s

The Changing of the Guard in the 1950s

The Most Traveled Man in Portland, Oregon

London Scenes from the 1950s

London Along the River Thames

Shopping in London's Petticoat Lane in the 1950s

London's Lombard Street in the 1950s

Anne Hathaway's Cottage and a Revelation

A Brief History of Karl Marx's Tomb

Doomed to Repeat Ourselves

A peek at Lourdes, France, in the 1950s

Changing of the Guard in Monaco