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Title [Interior views of the McAllister Residence, 14 North Merrick Street, West Penn Square, Philadelphia] [graphic]
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 9 photographic prints : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Interior views of John McAllister Jr.'s residence on West Penn Square showing bedrooms, parlors, the main staircase, and the furniture and artwork decorating the rooms and walls, including a fireplace and mantle, piano, paintings, tables, chairs, mirrors, beds, and wash basins. Several views include John McAllister, Jr., with an unidentified man in one view, sitting in chairs in a parlor.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Yellow mounts with rounded corners.
One item [P.9389.2] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 26.
Arcadia caption text: ... This house, built around 1835 on North Merrick Street, was one of a growing number of large double townhouses that lined Penn Square by the end of the 1830s. ... The image below provides a partial view of two of the bedrooms.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject McAllister, John, 1786-1877 -- Homes and haunts.
McAllister, John, 1786-1877 -- Portraits.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Interiors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bedrooms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Parlors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stairways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Furniture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Paintings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Merrick Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 14.
Penn Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Residences [P.9389.1-9]
Accession number P.9389.1
P.9389.2
P.9389.3
P.9389.4
P.9389.5
P.9389.6
P.9389.7
P.9389.8
P.9389.9