Catalogue of stereopticons, dissolving view apparatus, magic lanterns : and list of over 3000 carefully selected views for the illustration of subjects of popular interest.
A trade catalogue issued by T.H. McAllister of New York in 1867, offering stereopticons, dissolving view apparatus and magic lanterns, plus a list of over 3000 views for popular lectures. The four pictures are wood-engraved illustrations of lantern projectors, each labelled McAllister, New York, with brass fittings, chimneys and lens barrels drawn in fine parallel hatching. A designer could take from them the dense, hatched machine drawing style and the Victorian mechanical vocabulary of tin chimneys, lamp housings and brass valves.
