1848                Lewis Building, Birmingham (Derby), Connecticut.

1848 June 15.  The Derby Journal.  (Birmingham,(Derby) Connecticut.)  June 15, 1848, Vol. II, No. 76, P. 3

For Ten Days Only!  New and Great Discovery.  A New process for rendering Daguerreotypes indelible.  The great difficulty hitherto with Daguerreotype Miniatures, has been to fix the impression.  This great desideratum has at length been attained by T. Porter and J. Brush, proprietors of the New York Premium $1 Fire Enamelled Miniature Gallery, who would respectfully inform the inhabitants of Birmingham and Derby that they will now take pictures for 10 days only, and those wishing a perfect likeness taken by our never fading process, would do well to embrace the present opportunity.  The subscribers feel confident by their long experience in the first Galleries in New York, that they cannot fail in giving satisfaction to all who may favor them with a call.  Their pictures have been pronounced by artist and scientific men to be unrivalled for softness of light and shade.  The subscribers wish it to be understood that they give a perfect likeness or no charge, and those having inferior miniatures, taken by those not proficient in the art, can have them taken over on a new French plate for a trifling sum.  We would call the attention of the public in general to our collection of specimens on exhibition at our room in Lewis’s Building, Birmingham.  T. Porter & J. Brush.

N. B. The present proprietors are no way connected with any former apparatus in Birmingham or Derby.