In 1859, physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes described the effect of looking at stereoscopic photography as “a surprise such as no painting ever produced.” When placed in either hand-held or table-mounted holders, stereoscopic cards employed humans’ binocular vision to create the sense of depth perception. With the aid of red and cyan filters, visitors to "Across the West" are invited to experience the details and depth of original 19th century stereo cards. The selected scenes offer a range of motifs of interest to both Norwegian and American photographers: winding roads, impressive railway bridges, adventures on snowy mountaintops, as well as reference to the various inhabitants of the two countries, including Indigenous peoples, immigrants, and rural farmers. Enter our gallery and don a pair of 3D glasses—and prepare to travel to faraway places, just as 19th-century viewers would have been transported, in Holmes's words, "from a glacier to Vesuvius, from Niagara to Memphis". ...