The publishing company Underwood & Underwood began in 1882. First a door-to-door business, the first small office that Bert and Elmer Underwood opened was in Ottawa, Kansas. In the next two years the businesses expanded quickly and their franchises spread all over North America. Bert Underwood was became a photographer after studying it in 1891, and took travel photos in Italy, Greece, Israel, and Egypt. By the turn of the century the Underwood firm was the most productive publisher in the industry and was never outdone by any proceeding company.
- Collection
- stereo
- Format
- Image Stereograph Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2014
- Place Discussed
- Egypt
- Provider
- University of Washington
- Published in
- Egypt
- Reference
- STE310
- Rights
- For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/5644b5ac1fa5787b517b3e4122b3c1d3
