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Thanks for all the great responses guys! It's fascinating when finding these slides to engage in this kind of detective work. Sometimes, certain elements of these image remain a mystery.
For you Robert, here is the image in a stereo pair! When we post these on our facebook dedicated to vintage stereo slides, they are posted for BOTH cross-eye (denoted with an X) viewing, and for parallel (P) viewing. Most people can free-view one or the other, but if not, the parallel pair can be used with readily available viewing aides, such as lorgnette glasses. When looking at these in a good viewer, the image is so clear, one feels like they are bridging the gap between years, and could almost reach into the past!
In addition to collecting vintage stereo slides, I continue to shoot in stereo. And like Robert, I use Stereo Realist cameras. I have two f3.5 cameras and one f2.8 model. My favorite, and best performing model, remains the most basic (and oldest) 3.5 version given to me by a kindly neighbor in 1998. Our wedding in 2004 was shot with that camera and remains our favorite record of the event.
It's good to hear of others still using the Stereo Realist. I'll stop using it when slide film is no longer made. The David White company also made a stereo projector for the slides, as did other companies. We have a TDC Stereo Vivid projector. All used polarized light and required a silver screen. The resulting image is as good as the 3-D people see in movies these days.
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