![]() ![]() Viewing a Paper Peepshow is an intimate, individual experience that, in the age of television and hand-held computers, gives a real sense of personal discovery. Paper peepshows were light they were comparatively cheap. The new peepshow was equipped with paper bellows so it could be expanded or contracted in a trice. ![]() The clumsy cabinet was no longer called for. In the 1820s peepshows made entirely of paper appeared on the scene more or less at the same moment in Vienna, London and Paris. They called for a long wooden cabinet designed for purpose incorporating a viewing lens and sometimes a mirror. ![]() Peepshows were introduced in the mid-eighteenth century by Martin Engelbrecht in Augsburg. ![]()
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