Jaquay

1848                Location Unknown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jaquay was recorded in an announcement on June 16, 1848 in The Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Novel Enterprize.—A daguerreotype artist by the name of Jaquay has purchased a flatboat at Pittsburg, and fitted up a daguerreotype gallery on board.  He intends to float with the current.

Jaquay is not listed in other photographic directories.  It is possible that Jaquay and Anthony Jaquay are the same person.  Even though two plus years have elapsed between the announcement and the advertisements.  The distance between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Portsmouth, Ohio about 198 miles using the Ohio River.

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