2- Vtg 1940 Sequoia National Park CA Tru-Vue 3D Stereoview Photos Film Strip

Description

Set of 2 Vintage
Sequoia National Park, CA
Tru-Vue 3D Photos Stereoviews Film
Strip
Reel
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I have been collecting 3D media for the last 30 years and finally decided it's time to part ways with some of my favorite
things.
This is a rare complete set of two vintage Tru-Vue film strip reels of 3D pictures taken of the
Sequoia National Park in California with both strips in matching red & white boxes. Each film strip
reel contains 14 different 3D stereo images for viewing within a Tru-Vue viewer stereoscope (not
included). See this historic park as it once were in these wonderful 3D photos from 75+ years ago!
Today these reels are very interesting historic stuff, and all in eye-popping 3D! Complete sets
almost never show up leaving collectors to find each film strip one at a time.
Shown within the set are the the Giant Forest Lodge, Cabins, Tunnel Tree, Auto Log, General
Sherman Tree, Moro Rock, Nursery Tree, Window Tree, The Room Tree, Tokopah Falls, Bears,
Deer, and several shots of Crystal Cave.
This set contains:
326 Sequoia #1
327 Sequoia #2
Condition:
The film strip reels
are all in excellent condition and are both in their early original red and white boxes
with the original cardboard inserts! I have personally gone through each film strip reel with white
gloves on and inspected every frame and every film cog. All are perfect guaranteed! I would
suggest when viewing these rare films (and all other Tru-Vue films), to pull them slowly through
the viewer rather than using the advance lever. This is how the brittle 80 year old cogs get torn.
Both of the boxes
have slight shelf wear as to be expected and as can be seen in my photos, but
all flaps are present and there are no writing, tears, or crushes anywhere on the boxes. Each reel
is in its original cardboard sleeve. I have tried my best to photograph every aspect of the boxes
and film strips. Please check my pictures out and if you have any questions, please email!
Packaging on these will be very secure!
Thanks for looking!
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About Sequoia National Park from Wikipedia:
Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California,
in the United States. It was established on September 25, 1890. The park spans 404,064 acres
(631.35 sq mi; 163,518.90 ha; 1,635.19 km2). Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet
(4,000 m), the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48
United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 m) above sea level. The park is south of and
contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park
Service together as the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. They were designated the
UNESCO Sequoia-Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve in 1976.
The park is famous for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, the largest tree
on Earth. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five out of the ten
largest trees in the world. The Giant Forest is connected by the Generals Highway to Kings
Canyon National Park's General Grant Grove, home to the General Grant tree among other giant
sequoias. The park's giant sequoia forests are part of 202,430 acres (81,921 ha) of old-growth
forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Indeed, the parks preserve a
landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement.
The area which now comprises Sequoia National Park was first home to "Monachee" (Western
Mono) Native Americans, who resided mainly in the Kaweah River drainage in the Foothills region
of the park, though evidence of seasonal habitation exists as high as the Giant Forest. In the
summertime, Native Americans would travel over the high mountain passes to trade with tribes to
the East. To this day, pictographs can be found at several sites within the park, notably at Hospital
Rock and Potwisha, as well as bedrock mortars used to process acorns, a staple food for the
Monachee people.
By the time the first European settlers arrived in the area, smallpox had already spread to the
region, decimating Native American populations. The first European settler to homestead in the
area was Hale Tharp, who famously built a home out of a hollowed-out fallen giant sequoia log in
the Giant Forest next to Log Meadow. Tharp allowed his cattle to graze the meadow, but at the
same time had a respect for the grandeur of the forest and led early battles against logging in the
area. From time to time, Tharp received visits from John Muir, who would stay at Tharp's log cabin.
Tharp's Log can still be visited today in its original location in the Giant Forest.
However, Tharp's attempts to conserve the giant sequoias were at first met with only limited
success. In the 1880s, white settlers seeking to create a utopian society founded the Kaweah
Colony, which sought economic success in trading Sequoia timber. However, Giant Sequoia trees,
unlike their coast redwood relatives, were later discovered to splinter easily and therefore were
ill-suited to timber harvesting, though thousands of trees were felled before logging operations
finally ceased.
The National Park Service incorporated the Giant Forest into Sequoia National Park in 1890, the
year of its founding, promptly ceasing all logging operations in the Giant Forest. The park has
expanded several times over the decades to its present size; one of the most recent expansions
occurred in 1978, when grassroots efforts, spearheaded by the Sierra Club, fought off attempts by
the Walt Disney Corporation to purchase a high-alpine former mining site south of the park for use
as a ski resort. This site known as Mineral King was annexed to the park. Its name dates back to
early 1873 when the miners in the area formed the Mineral King Mining District. Mineral King is
the highest-elevation developed site within the park and a popular destination for backpackers.
About Tru-Vue from the UK Viewmaster website:
TRU-VUE Inc., Rock Island, Illinois USA manufactured the viewers and over 400 different 3D film reels. The company was founded in 1931 and after the 1933 "Century of Progress Exposition" in Chicago grew and flourished through the 1930's and 40's. The original viewers used 35mm filmstrips, generally containing 14 stereo views, which were pulled through the viewer using a lever (visible at the bottom of the left-hand photograph below). In 1949 Tru-Vue sold over a million reels of film!.  The quality of the 3D presented is generally very good, although the films need to be handled carefully. Film-strips and viewers were made between 1933 and 1952. Ultimately the Tru-Vue company was acquired by Sawyers View-Master in 1952, who wanted the rights to Disney licences held by the company.
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