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Well, it's not on e-bay (although there is a book of Fred Harvey hand colored photographs of the Grand Canyon for $14.99) and it's not in OCLC, nor does LC Prints & Photos have one as far as I can tell. The AZ state archives has a couple of Fred Harvey Grand Canyon photo books, but again not the Tru-Vue:

 Title: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona : hand colored
                        photographs.
      Publication info: [s.l. : Published by Fred Harvey, 190-?]
      Physical descrip: [12] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; 26x34 cm.
               Held by: ARCHIVES
       Geographic term: Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)
          Added author: Harvey, Fred.

ARCHIVES CALL NUMBER                      COPY MATERIAL LOCATION 
   1)917.918 G75CA                             1 BOOK       ARIZONA    no circ

       Personal Author: Harvey, Fred.
                 Title: Grand Canyon national park in photogravure.
      Publication info: [Kansas City, Mo. : Fred Harvey, 1923]
      Physical descrip: 24 pl. ; 24.8 cm.
          General Note: Cover title.
          General Note: Bound in orange buckram; stamped in white; decorated
                        endpapers. Original printed paper wrappers bound in.
               Held by: ARCHIVES
       Geographic term: Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)

ARCHIVES CALL NUMBER                      COPY MATERIAL LOCATION 
   1)917.918 G75HAP                            1 BOOK       ARIZONA    no circ

so maybe it is rather rare. The Heard Museum Archives has lots of Fred Harvey stuff.
http://www.heard.org/research/archives/index.html

Or contact Eastman house about the Tru-Vue
http://www.eastman.org/home.htm

good luck,
debra


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Date:    Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:49:07 -0700
From:    Roy Webb <rwebb@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU>
Subject: Fred Harvey question

I'm forwarding this question to the list as I've reached the limits of
what I can find out about this question.  This inquiry came to me
from someone else in the library here, so if you have any
information--which of course I would greatly appreciate!--send it me
and I'll pass it along.  Thanks a million,

FORWARD BEGINS:
I have a rather special collection of films from the Fred Harvey
collection that are dated 1936. The films are in black and white and
are
of the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, etc and include photos of
American
Indians as well. A brown Tru-Vue is included in the box, and on the
box it
reads "Fifty-six scenes of The Great Grand Canyon of Arizona in
Three
Dimension Photography" and is signed Fred Harvey. The film itself
is from
Eastman Kodak. The photos are the duplicated on every other frame
to
facilitate the three-dimensional effect.

My question to you is - how rare is this Tru-Vue and set of
photographs?
>From what I have been able to research, the Tru-Vue didn't come
out until
the 1933 Century of Progress Expo in Chicago, Illinois,  and was a
subsidiary of Rock Island Bridge & Ironworks in Rock Island, Illinois.
They were bought out in 1951 by Sawyer's View-Master. The patent
number on
the Tru-Vue is 30564.

FORWARD ENDS

Thanks again,


Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu
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dshapiro@slis.wisc.edu
Debra Shapiro
Continuing Education Services
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Madison WI 53706
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