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Title: [McAllister & Brother, opticians, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of storefront at 728 Chestnut Street. Signage advertises mathematical instruments, spectacles, microscopes, spy glasses, thermometers. Image includes the bust of Franklin which adorns the second floor of the shop, and pedestrians in the street. Address on plate altered from an earlier version of the engraving created in late 1854 or early 1855 when McAllister & Brother moved from 48 Chestnut to their new location at 194 Chestnut. The address changed to 728 post-consolidation necessitating the alteration of the plate., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook.
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, engraver
Date: [after 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Business - McAllister & Brother [(2)1525.F.18b]

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: Baxter's panoramic business directory of Philadelphia Chestnut Street from Seventh to Eighth, (south side)
Description: View showing the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street (700-732). Addresses printed below the buildings. Businesses with signage include W. L. Germon's Photographic Rooms (700); Frederick, Penabert & Germon, photographers (702); Jules Hauel & Co., perfumer, and Meyer & Warne, silverplaters (704); Winchester & Co., gentleman's furnishing store (706); John W. Proctor & Co., cloaks and mantillas (708); Cornelius & Baker, manufacturer of gas light fixtures (710); Hancock & Co. (712); Charles Desilver, publisher and bookseller, and Samuel W. Pepper, jeweler, and Edward W. Carryl, home furnishings (714); T. H. Peters & Co., perfumers (716); Warner, Miskey & Co., manufacturer of gas light fixtures (718); Spieler's Photographic Rooms, and Mrs. E. W. Brown's Dressmaking establishment, and Sarmiento & M'Grath, tailor (720); Lee & Walker, piano store (722); Glenn & Co., perfumers, and Mooney Manley & Co., importers of millinery goods, and Stern & Freeman, manufacturer and importer of artificial flowers (726); McAllister & Brother, opticians (728); Grover & Baker, sewing machines (730); and Duff & Co.'s Commercial College and R.K. Stewart, trimmings (732). Includes pedestrian traffic., Printed on recto: Copyright Secured., Copyrighted by Baxter & Neff., Contains several lines of advertising text below the image promoting the value of a Business Directory that was to depict panoramas of "Chestnut, Market, Third, Second, and Front streets" and the "City Front." Also promotes the directory's detail to architectural characteristics of each building; its use as a future reference; its mutual benefits; and "Its Permanency." Text also solicits subscriptions from businesses in return for a "view of their buildings"; an "Advertising card"; and "one hundred plates of the entire square for their own distribution.", Also contains notice that King & Baird will print the plates on paper of the "best quality," "Terms of subscription," and advertisements for D. W. C. Baxter & Co., publishers, and Baxter & Harley, engravers, below the image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Variant of 1322 1/2.F.18 and P.2006.1.15a&b.
Creator: Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881, engraver
Date: 1859, c1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Baxter - Chestnut Street - 1859 [1322 1/2.F.19]

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