1841-1842       123 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[i]

1841 September 2.  Boston Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 2, 1841, Vol. XII. No. 3406, P. 3

Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, No. 123 Washington street, over Lows, Ball and Company.  The subscriber begs leave to call the attention to the public to specimens of Daguerreotype Miniature Portraits executed by him.  He has recently made some highly successful experiments, by which the time required in sitting is materially lessened, while the distinctness and legibility of the portrait is increased.  The fidelity to the original which mark these miniatures and the ease and rapidity with which they are taken, render them superior to all other portraits.

Persons desirous of making themselves acquainted with the Photographic process, may receive such instructions as will enable them to take portraits, drawings, & c. in very brief space of time.  H.I. Able & Co., Successors to J. S. F. Huddleston & Co.        Advertisement ran from September 2 to December 15, 1841.

1841 September 20.  Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

Exhibited daguerreotypes at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association third exhibition fair in Boston, Massachusetts.

1841 September 26.  Boston Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.) Vol. XII, No. 3430, P. 2.

Mechanics Fair…Fine Specimens of Daguerreotype Miniatures by H. J. Abel & Co.

1841 October 15.  Boston Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  October 15, 1841, Vol. XII, No. 3443, P. 2,

Daguerreotype.  Mr. H. I. Abell, (sic.) 123 Washington Street, has shown us some beautiful photographic miniatures, which indicate that he has attained to great perfection in this novel and ingenious process of transferring a person’s phiz to a silver plate, in considerable less than no time.  One great excellence in his miniatures is the distinctness with which the features are delineated.  Those who wish to see themselves as they are seen, have but to call at his room, and he will at any time show them up.

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[i] A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers 1839-1900.