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Title: McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view of optician's store from the rear. Foreground shows a table on which a variety of stereoviewers and stereographs are displayed. Two customers view stereographs at the table while others are assisted by store employees at counters in the front of the store. The proprietor John McAllister Jr. stands at the far right., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century Photography in Philadelphia: 250 Historic Prints from The Library Company of Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), plate 112., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - business [(8)1322.F.33a]

Title: [Interior view of McAllister & Brother's opticians' shop, 194 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows display cases, cabinets, a variety of stereviewers and other opitical instruments, stereographs, globes, and portraits . Sign at the back of the store advertises microscopes, spy glasses, opera glasses, magic lantern & dissolving views, spectacles, magnifying glasses, stereoscopes, globes, camera lucidas, and camera obsuras. Taken after the store moved to this location late in 1854, but before renumbering when the address was changed to 728 Chestnut., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title supplied by cataloger., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - business - McAllister [(6)1322.F.7e]

Title: [Interior view of McAllister & Brother's opticians' shop, 194 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows display cases, cabinets, a variety of stereviewers and other opitical instruments, stereographs, globes, and portraits . Sign at the back of the store advertises microscopes, spy glasses, opera glasses, magic lantern & dissolving views, spectacles, magnifying glasses, stereoscopes, globes, camera lucidas, and camera obsuras. Taken after the store moved to this location late in 1854, but before renumbering when the address was changed to 728 Chestnut., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title supplied by cataloger., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - business - McAllister [(6)1322.F.7e]

Title: [Interior view of McAllister & Brother's opticians' shop, 194 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows display cases, cabinets, a variety of stereviewers and other opitical instruments, stereographs, globes, and portraits . Sign at the back of the store advertises microscopes, spy glasses, opera glasses, magic lantern & dissolving views, spectacles, magnifying glasses, stereoscopes, globes, camera lucidas, and camera obsuras. Taken after the store moved to this location late in 1854, but before renumbering when the address was changed to 728 Chestnut., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title supplied by cataloger., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - business - McAllister [(6)1322.F.7e]

Title: McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view of optician's store showing display cases, cabinets, a variety of stereoscopes, and a globe. Depicts seven men including the proprietor John McAllister, clerks and customers. Sign at the back of the store advertises microscopes, spy glasses, opera glasses, magic lantern & dissolving views, spectacles, magnifying glasses, stereoscopes, globes, camera lucidas, and camera obsuras., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - business - McAllister [P.8979.1]

Title: [Chestnut Street, east from Thirteenth Street, south side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturers (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. Also shows a boy leaning on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.49i]

Title: Custom house and post office - Chestnut above 4th
Description: View showing the U.S. Customhouse (1845 to 1935) at 420 Chestnut Street and the U.S. Post Office (1863 to 1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Customhouse building built in 1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. View includes the adjacent Philadelphia Bank Building also designed by Strickland in 1836 at 400-408 Chestnut. Building tenanted by Aetna Life Insurance Company; Commonwealth Bank; Wood and Garrett, cotton good manufacturers; Edward Borhek, optician (storefront adorned with large spectacles); and Alfred J. Reach, cigar dealer. Also shows vendor stands near the customhouse and a partial view of advertisements for businesses on the north side of the street. Advertisements include a large showpiece rifle promoting gun dealers, Phillip, Wilson & Co. and a billboard promoting "Wright's Tar Syrup" adorning Kromer's Patent Medicine Depot., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Government Buildings [P.8497.4]

Title: [Chestnut Street looking east from Thirteenth Street]
Description: View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturer (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. A boy leans on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: Thirteenth & Chestnut St., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Inscribed on negative: 308., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.131]

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