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Stereoscope: The Jordan/Ference Collection’s partnership with The Western Front Association

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The Jordan/Ference Collection had its genesis in the mid-1990s. Bob Boyd and Doug Jordan were independently collecting WWI-related stereoviews and ended up bidding against each other on the newly-created site eBay. Unhappy with this situation, they made contact (in those days eBay let you know who you were bidding against!) and came up with a ne...

Stand To ! No.123 July 2021

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The latest issue of the journal of The Western Front Association is out today. There are ten carefully researched and richly illustrated articles and eight extended book reviews which follow a new format to reviews, including content from one of the authors.  Contents Communication Lines 2-3  Somme, March 1918: Bridgehead defence and a fateful...

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Stereography in the Great War (in three parts) Part I

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PART ONE  Stereography in the Great War Part I: Paper card manufacturers by Ian Ference [This article first appeared in Stand To! (122 April 2021 pp. 36-41) Stereography, which for the purposes of this three–part article series can be easily understood as ‘the depiction of objects in 3D on flat surfaces’, existed before photography did. As soon...