Flume House, Santa Cruz Mountains 1860s

"Flume House, Santa Cruz Mountains" is a stereoscopic photograph created by the Davies Machine Shop in the 1860s. This image captures a two-story wood-frame house with a wraparound porch, nestled amidst trees in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The detail and composition of this stereoscopic photograph provide a glimpse into the architectural style and landscape of the region in the mid-19th century. Stereoscopic photography, popular in the mid-19th century, creates the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality by presenting two slightly different perspectives of the same subject. The photograph is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.