Stereographs. The World As It Was: Photographic Portrait, 1865-1921 by Margarett Loke.

Summit, 1980. Foreword by Paul Theroux. [Selections of stereographic views from the Keystone-Mast Collection, which includes the archives of other firms such as Underwood & Underwood, H.C. White, Kilburn, et al. Organized into three parts: The Age of Incredulity, 1865-1900, with photographs of industrial society, families, street life, etc.; Twilight of an Age, 1901-1914, with the Russo-Japanese War, schoolroom, San Franicsco Earthquake, The Flying Machine, etc.; and The End of an Age, 1914-1921, including The Grand Illusion and After the War (World War I). Includes photograph of James Ricalton, Underwood & Underwood photographer, standing with two giants in Kashmir; Ricalton took more than 100,000 photographs around the world for Underwood.] Folio, 1st printing. Hardcover, ex-library, very good copy with wear at extremities, library spine labels neatly removed from VG+ dust jacket that has new protector, card pocket on rear flyleaf.