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Photograph Department, Philadelphia Sanitary Fair, June 1864.
Interior of Studio waiting room. Sign on table “Stereoscopes and Views for Sale.” Views and viewer on table.
Coney Island, N.Y.–Main Hall of Hotel Brighton. Sign for “Cabinet Stereoscopic Views of Hotel Brighton 10 cents.”
Interior of McAllister & Brother, Opticians, Philadelphia. John McAllister, Jr (1786-1877) stands at back.
Photographer with camera, stereo camera, bottle with funnel, and photographs in studio. Image is pseudoscopic.
Photographer with camera, stereo camera, bottle with funnel, and photographs in studio. Image is pseudoscopic.
Gentleman, probably the photographer, looking at stereoviews. Frames and cases in background. Image is pseudoscopic.
Photographic still life with 16-lens camera, 4-lens camera, head brace, frame, several images.
M. Costello Tonsorial Artist. Black family in doorway. Stereoview display at right. The barber is Marcellus Costello, a longtime hairdresser in New Bedford, Mass. Mr. Costello was black and he may be the older gentleman in the view. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the Navy.
Havens’ Views of Sing Sing, N.Y. View down Main St. from Washburn’s Corner. The buildings on both sides as far as the tree were destroyed in the late fire Oct. 9, 1872. “Havens’ Photographs” sign hangs across the street.
Devlin & Co. Clothing for Men, Ready Made, or, made to [order], Broadway, Cor. 12th St. Sign for P.C. Duchochois, Portraits. Peter C. Duchochois was the author of the book “The Lighting in Photographic Studios published in NY in 1893.
Views of New Orleans. No. 418. Camp Street, Beginning at Canal, Showing the City Hotel on the left, two buildings from the corner of Canal Street. B. & G. Moses’ Photographic Gallery at right.