Albany Then & Now: Matching Stereo-views From 1858 With the Modern Day

“Albany Then & Now: Historical Panoramas of Menang Noongar Boodja” is an exhibition running at the Museum of the Great Southern in Albany, Western Australia over the period 12 December 2025 to 7 June 2026. As part of the exhibition, a series of stereoscopic images from 1858 were converted into stereo-cards for use by exhibition attendees. Maintaining the “Then & Now” theme, modern-day equivalents of the 1858 views were captured around modern Albany and printed on the reverse side of the 1858 stereo-cards. The paper will discuss the methods used to process and produce the stereo-cards.