(from the article `photography, history of`) Stereoscopic photographic views (stereographs) were immensely popular in the United States and Europe from about the mid-1850s through the early ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/160
Ste're·o·graph noun [ Stereo- + -graph .] Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/194