Stereo analysis
AnalyzedVerdict
Genuine stereo pair91%
The two photographs contain the viewpoint difference needed to produce genuine depth.
- Depth spread
- 4px
- The range of horizontal difference between the two views. More spread generally means more depth; 0–1 px usually indicates a monoview.
- Match
- 85%
- The share of usable picture detail that can be matched between the left and right views. A higher number means a more reliable comparison.
- Vertical
- 3px
- Vertical drift between matched details. Lower is better; 4 px or more can indicate camera movement, scan skew, or poor alignment.
A stereoview of the Summit House on Wachusett Mountain, Massachusetts, identified by its printed reverse label and credited to J. C. Moulton. Two warm-toned photographs are mounted side by side on an orange card with a pink reverse. The building combines rough stone lower walls, shingled roofs, and a tall central timber-clad section above a long front porch.
Men, women, and children face the camera from the porch and the ground immediately before it. Full skirts, several styles of hat, and an open parasol distinguish the group. Chairs stand along the porch; a dog waits near the steps, and children sit among the exposed rocks below. Broad stone ledges and low vegetation fill the foreground.
A bordered paper label on the reverse reads “SUMMIT HOUSE, WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN.” Beneath it is the credit “J. C. MOULTON, Photographer, Fitchburg, Mass.” The label establishes the subject and photographer but supplies neither a date nor the names of the people shown.
Small losses occur along the upper and inner edges of the photographic prints. The reverse has reddish handling marks and a small patch of surface-paper loss near the lower left. Otherwise sound, with clear detail in the building, clothing, and rocky foreground.
- Title on card
- SUMMIT HOUSE, WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN.
- Medium
- Stereoview
- Subject
- Children, Massachusetts, Outdoor Scene
- Dimensions
- 6.95 × 3.47 in (176.6 × 88.2 mm)
- Condition
- Small losses along the upper and inner edges of the photographic prints. Reddish handling marks on the reverse and a small patch of surface-paper loss near its lower-left corner. Otherwise sound, with clear image detail.
- Catalogue no.
- MSV1853
Catalogue details
Location
Original Summit House, summit of Wachusett Mountain, Princeton, Massachusetts · Princeton, Massachusetts, United States
Photographed subject · Exact site · 85% confidence
Label reads "SUMMIT HOUSE, WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN. J. C. Moulton, Photographer, Fitchburg, Mass." Front shows a one-and-a-half-storey wood-and-stone house with tower, guests on the porch, ledge and scrub of the bare summit — consistent with the original c. 1870 Summit House. Coordinates: Mount Wachusett summit (Google Places). Sources: Princeton Historical Society "Summit Houses"; Digital Commonwealth "Summit House - original structure, c 1870".
Source: Card verso label (direct) + Princeton Historical Society
