Solved: The Mystery of Connie V. Masters

The story behind View-Master’s “Lonely Overdressed Woman Who Stares Contemplatively at the Landscape.”

I started collecting View-Master after finding a Model C and some reels that highlighted a few U.S. National Parks at an antique mall in Flint, Michigan, around 1998. My hobby started small and evolved slowly. And I think I would have lost interest pretty early if I hadn’t been charmed by several recurring visual motifs, like the tendency of 3D photogra…