1853-1854       Address Unknown, Louisville, Kentucky.

Nicholas Hall was recorded in an advertisement that ran from August 17, 1853 to January 15, 1854 in the Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tennessee).

Daguerran Stock And Picture Establishment.                                                                                                Dobyns & Yearout, Nashville, Tennessee, College Street.                                                                         Dobyns & Hall, Louisville, Ky.                                                                                                                                Dobyns & Richardson, Morssewet, New York.                                                                                                 Dobyns & Spaulding, St. Louis, Mo.                                                                                                                     Dobyns & Yearout, Memphis, Tenn.                                                                                                                     Dobyns & Harrington, New Orleans.

At any of the above establishments, you can procure as fine Pictures as can be had in any city, of any desired style or fin9ish, as we have every improvement, and expect to keep up with any and all improvements.  We are prepared in either city to furnish artists with every article used in the art.  Our arrangements are such, we can furnish stock on the most reasonable terms. Dobyns & Co.  N. B.—Pictures taken in any kind of Weather.

Nicholas Hall does appear in Craig’s Daguerreian Registry as being active in 1858-1860, in Louisville Kentucky.  John mentions that Hall was formerly associated with Dobyns without activity dates.