1854                Brokerhoff’s Row, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

1854 April 27.  Centre Democrat.  (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.)  April 27, 1854, New Series—Vol. 20, No. 29, P. 4.

H. Bridge’s Star Daguerrean Gallery, Brokerhoff’s Row, Second Floor, next door to the one formerly occupied as the Centre Democrat Office, Bellefonte, Pa.

Nature has triumphed, and ingenious art

May to each chain an added grace impart,

Control the rays that mellow from the skies

And bid the image from the chemic plate arise.

This Gallery of art has a reputation for finished pictures firmly established without the foreign aid of imported “heads” or negative humbug.  We invite the test of examination.  Good judgement and correct taste we feel assured will not require the incentives of a high sounding boast to direct a choice of Pictures intended to perpetuate the image of those we love.  We do not rest our claim upon the vaunted popularity of a name, which, before real worth is destined to pass away.

“Like the baseless fabrics of a vision.”

Price of Pictures varying from 75 cents to $10.  Likenesses taken in cloudy as well as fair weather.  Children and deceased persons also taken.

The subscriber has on hand and for sale a first rate Apparatus and all necessary fixtures which he will dispose of on reasonable terms. Feb. 2, 1854.