PBA Galleries

132 color stereoscopic cards, with hand-held viewer, in original box.

The cards are arranged in alphabetic order, from Acne to Zoster, with text on the back of the cards consisting of description, diagnosis and treatment. William Culp Darrah, the historian of stereography, waxed enthusiastic in his survey of the field: “Some very remarkable multicolored lithoprints, illustrating diseases of the skin, were copyrighted and issued in 1910 by Doctor S. I. Rainforth of New York... The colors of the images are remarkably lifelike, the skin and pathologic conditions are scientifically accurate.  It is unfortunate that these cards are so rare...because they represent some of the best stereo lithoprinting.”--Darrah, Stereo Views.  A History of Stereographs in  America and Their Collection, p. 163.