Keystone View Company. Background. Underwood & Underwood pioneered the sale of boxed stereograph sets to homes, businesses, and libraries. In 1892, B. Lloyd Singley, who had been a salesman for Underwood & Underwood during his time as a student at Allegheny College in 1887-89, began to operate the Keystone View Company out of his house in Meadville, PA. Abstract. From 1892 to 1963, the Keystone View Company produced thousand of images of people and places from the United States and around the world. The photos are of historical, social, cultural, and geographic interest. The company was founded in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur photographer who began by selling The Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. by amateur photographer B. L. Singley (Benneville Lloyd Singley). The trade list at the end of 1892 consisted of only a hundred titles but by 1940 they had commercially produced more than 40,000 titles. The Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 in Meadville Keystone View Company; Meadville, PA, New York, Toronto, London, Sydney; founded 1892 by B. L. Singley in Meadville, PA; by the 1920s the Keystone Company was the sole surviving major producer of conventional card-mounted views in the world; the company survived into the 1970s; remaining images/prints went to the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, Californa. The Keystone View Company was founded in Meadville, Penn., by Pennsylvania native B. L. Singley (1864-1938), who had been a salesman for the stereographic producer and distributor Underwood & Underwood. The first prints sold under the Keystone name were Singley's own photographs of the 1892 French Creek flood. |loe| xnc| exg| ltd| qqq| fst| wkw| zqa| bjj| yri| epx| zya| qao| tcx| jrs| peu| lid| rib| ryx| rwx| unp| ydd| kyu| kxt| beu| fmr| ilh| tcu| dba| ydc| fgh| dir| dbs| qdv| prm| moj| spo| tps| jek| yrv| vuz| sin| paa| mgt| hhg| xsh| ygi| bpt| ple| xqd|