1857                297 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut.

1857 October 10.  The Connecticut Courant.  (Hartford, Connecticut.)  October 10, 1857, Vol. XCIV, No. 4838, P. 2.

The County Fair.  From the Daily Courant of Wednesday.  The County Fair opened at the City Hall, yesterday…

Fine Arts’ department was much admired, yesterday, by the crowds of visitors.  There are many real gems on exhibition.  Many of the crayon and pencil drawings are executed in the highest style of the art, and many of the paintings possess more than ordinary merit.  The works shown by the Daguerrean artists are many of them really  beautiful specimens, and are the most attractive feature in the room.  The views by Moore are most excellent specimens of the Photographic art…

Chapin & Hopkins have a number of  “Collodron (sic.) Ambrotypes” on exhibition which certainly are not behind any presented.

1857 October 27.  The Connecticut Courant.  (Hartford, Connecticut.)  October 27, 1857, Vol. XCIV, No. 4840, P. 2.

Hartford County Fair.  List Of Premiums Awarded By The Hartford County Agricultural Society, October, 1857…

Fine Arts…

W. H. Chase, for Photographs, Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes, Silver Medal.

G. W. Davis, for plain and colored Photographs and Ambrotypes, Gold Medal.

N. A. Moore, Photographic Views, Gold Medal.

N. A. Moore, Photographs and Ambrotypes, Silver Medal.

Chapin & Hopkins, Photographs and Ambrotypes, Silver Medal.