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    Object Lessons

    Mar 06, 2018 1 minute

    The stereograph, a protoform of virtual reality popular in the nineteenth century, following its invention in the 1850s, allowed Victorian-era viewers to visit exotic locales without leaving home. Early on in this three-dimensional experience, prison life at Sing Sing was subject

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