Victorian Rhapsody

Brian May of the band Queen has collected old stereoviews of a Victorian country town. The Daily Mail ran an article about his collecting and his new book, A Village Lost and Found (written with Elena Vidal). British stereoviews, hand tinted. These are attractive set scenes of mid-19th C country life, and are shown as halves--the originals would have two images pasted to a card which, when viewed in a stereographoscope, would produce a 3-d image (in "stereo"). The fact that a musician for Queen also collects these views and then happened to live in the house of the photographer, whose descendant visited him, is wonderful beyond words!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243604/Victorian-Rhapsody-Queen-guitarist-Brian-May-photos-forgotten-Britain-secret-obsession.html#ixzz0dgfvSupd

A phots from the original article, after the jump.