Microscope Museum

Collection of antique microscopes and other scientific instruments

 

      

William McAllister (Philadelphia, USA)

McAllister & Bros (Philadelphia, USA)

In this page you will find images of instruments made by these firms, found in their own trade catalogues, catalogues of other retailers, antique books, volumes of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, and other sources.

 

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Observations from the source

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue (1855)

Screw adjusting magnifying glass

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867; 1878)

Seed microscope

William Mcallister (1882)

Three legged microscope

WY McAllister (1882)

Brass three legged microscope

WY McAllister (1882)

Three legged microscope

William Mcallister (1882)

Three legged microscope

William Mcallister (1882)

Coddington lens

WY McAllister (1882)

Coddington lens

WY McAllister (1882)

Engraver’s glass

William Mcallister (1882)

Engraver’s glass

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue (1855)

Stanhop lens

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867; 1878)

Stanhope lens

William Mcallister (1882)

Coddington lens

WY McAllister (1882)

Coddington lens

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867; 1878)

Insect or flower pocket microscope

William Mcallister (1882)

Botanical microscope

WY McAllister (1882)

Pocket microscope

William Mcallister (1882)

Linen prover

WY McAllister (1882)

Linen prover

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue (1855)

Linen prover

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867; 1878)

Linen prover, vulcanite

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867; 1878)

Linen prover, brass

William Mcallister (1882)

Excelsior pocket and dissecting microscope

WY McAllister (1882)

Excelsior pocket and dissecting microscope

W McAllister’s catalogue (1878)

Student microscope (13 inches high)

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867; 1878)

French microscope (6 inches high)

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue’s catalogue (1855)

French microscope

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue (1855)

French microscope

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867)

French microscope (7½ inches high)

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue (1855)

French microscope

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue (1855)

Oberhauser’s vertical microscope

McAllister & Brothers’s catalogue (1855)

Achromatic microscope

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867)

McAllister’s complete family microscope (13 inches high)

Padgitt DL (1975) A short history of the early American microscope. Microscope Publications Ltd. Chicago

McAllister's largest microscope of 1876

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867)

Iron stand (13 inches high)

Hansen, J. L. et al. (1974) The Billings microscope collection. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, USA

TH McAllister (before 1880)

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867; 1878)

US Army Hospital Microscope (by J. Zentmayer)

King (1859)

Microscope

McAllister

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867)

Brass stand (11 inches high)

W McAllister’s catalogue (1878)

Compound household microscope

Lentz, T. L. (2017) Lentz Microscopy and Histology Collection. Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University

Wm. Y. McAllister Universal

Lentz, T. L. (2017) Lentz Microscopy and Histology Collection. Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University

T. H. McAllister Household

John Brocklesby (1971) The amateur microscopist or Views of the microscopic world

Student’s microscope

Padgitt DL (1975) A short history of the early American microscope. Microscope Publications Ltd. Chicago

1867 microscope designed and made by Thomas H. McAllister

W McAllister’s catalogue (1878)

Student microscope (10 inches high)

W McAllister’s catalogue (1867)

Achromatic microscope (9¼ inches high)

King (1859)

Microscope

McAllister

Julius Wilhelm Behrens (1885) A guide for the microscopical investigation of vegetable substances

Illustrator’s stand

J Behrens (1885)

McAlister’s illustrator stand

McAllister