Stereographs project Business locations New York City, NY, US [0-2] "Manufactured by..."; 1 & 3 Union Square
until ~30, 133-137 W. 23rd St. until ~40s. One
of latest-surviving small companies; a curious
operation thoroughly researched by the late Fred
Lightfoot. Founders about the turn of the
century were: Nathan Rubinstein, James
McGillicuddy and Harry Iverson; business was
continued into the second generation by Isaac
Rubinstein & John McGillicuddy (Iverson had no children). Had two separate locations, 1 in
Manhattan under name of Climax View Co.; another
on Sand Street in Brooklyn under name of I.M.R.
Co. (Iverson--McGillicuddy--- Rubinstein). The
Manhattan operation made rare mediocre views of
NYC streets, but great majority of output was
comic & mildly risque, occasionally nicely
tinted, usually in sets of 3 to 12 curved
mounts. Rubinsteins (father & son) were the
photographers for both branches; work not bad
but most stage sets are rudimentary; comic
Irish/German/Jewish genre; copies of nude
paintings/statuary; dozens of sets of semi-nude
women: Ikey Sells a Suit; The Wrestlers (man &
woman); On the Beach (3 nude girls); In Pokey
(woman bringing man in jail supper -- looks like
real jail); The Acrobats; Krause and the Beer
Barrel; The Eunuchs Revenge; Plastic Poses; The
Gymnasts; The Mimic Queen (man in drag); Clad in
Chiffon; Pat and Mike on a Rip; A Hot Night;
Fair Columbia; A Hot Time in the Dressing Room;
Miss Liberty Off Her Base; etc., etc. Many
views dist. through McCasher Supply Co. of
Philadelphia. SEE entry for I.M.R. Co. for
details on that branch. Some of their images
were pub. by C.E. Johnson of Salt Lake City, UT. T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) |
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
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