Not every Tax­iphote fol­lowed the famil­iar design. From one of the very first exam­ples ever made to rare mech­a­nisms, unusu­al vari­a­tions, and an appar­ent pro­to­type, five remark­able instru­ments reveal a less­er-known side of Jules Richard’s famous stereoscope.

From ear­ly view­ing cas­es for daguerreo­types to sim­ple paper con­struc­tions of the 1950s: dis­cov­er five fold­ing stere­o­scopes that illus­trate near­ly a cen­tu­ry of inven­tive design.