1852-1853       Post Office Building, St. Anthony, Minnesota.

1853-1857       Charles King New Building, St. Anthony, Minnesota.[1]

1852 August 27.  St. Anthony Express.  (St. Anthony, Minnesota.)  August 27, 1852, Vol. II, No. 14, P. 3.

T. Elwell, Daguerrean Artist, Having opened a room in the Post Office building, request those desirous of obtaining pictures to call immediately.  Prices from $1.50 to $3.00—cheaper than the cheapest.

Advertisement ran from August 27 to October 29, 1852.

1852 December 3.  St. Anthony Express.  (St. Anthony, Minnesota.)  December 3, 1852, Vol. II, No. 28, P. 3.

Portraits.  Still Anxious to serve the Public.  The subscriber having determined upon remaining in St Anthony longer than he had preciously announced and expected, still wishes to keep it before the people that he is to be found at his room in the Post Office building ready to furnish correct and life-like portraitures and interesting views of the falls to all who may desire.  Increased facilities lately received are not wanting to insure the most satisfactory and desirable results.  T. Elwell.

Advertisement ran from December 3, 1852 to

1854 February 1.  North-Western Democrat.  (St. Anthony, Minnesota.)  February 1, 1854, Vol. 1, No. [ ? ], P. 3.

Elwell’s Sky-Light Daguerrean Gallery.  The subscriber, not content with a little light upon a [subject] where luminous power may be brought to bear with such excellent effect as in Portrait Making, has through the agency of Charles R. King, Esq., secured a Perfect Flood of it by the construction of a Mammoth Light, containing upwards of 225 square feet of Glass.

This light, rendered controllable by perfect curtain arrangement, can be made to produce any desired effect, and happily answers every purpose for which it was intended; if, perchance, it secures the patronage of that class of citizens whose cultivated taste enables them to judge correctly of Artistic Merit.

Critics, Connoisseurs, and [Lovers] of Art generally, are especially invited to make the Gallery a place of Frequent Resort, And Of Free Communication:  while others, seeking to excite or gratify curiosity, or desiring to secure Gems’ of Natural Scenery, Or Shadows From Life, are assured that here they will always be welcome, and can have their wants supplied on the Shortest possible Notice.

Thus the invitation is to All, even the “Sons Of The Forest shall be received with that consideration due to their rank as Native Americans.

Pictures taken at all hours of the day, and in all kinds of weather.  the images of little ‘wee bit of children’ will be caught while kicking in the nurse’s arms if necessary, or if [ ? ] while sitting quietly on the mother’s lap.  [ ? ] views of St Anthony Falls, Minnehaha [ ?…]

1856 November 27.  Minnesota Republican.  (Minneapolis, Minnesota.)  November 27, 1856, Vol. II, No. 45, P. 2.

Ho!  For A Home.  Granite City, And its vicinity, offers peculiar inducement to those seeking Pleasant Homes, in a new and inviting portion of the Territory, Blessed with the very best market in the North-West, and secured as such for all time to come, by [its] contiguity to Lake Superior, and the important Lumbering and Mining Interests of Northern Minnesota; again in the inviting beauty of the country—its rich, productive, and easily improved Soil on the one hand, and tall, [ ? ] Pines on the other, intermixed with [hard] timber of various kinds—we have a Union rarely found, but always blessed to the abundant prosperity of those who can appreciate home comforts, of the elements of individual wealth [ ? ] reference to the country, it is now subjected to Pre-Emption, that glorious iniative rite, which puts on an equal basis the Rich And Poor, so far as the [ ? ] is concerned—creates society at once, and convert a new country into a theatre of the most active and progressive enterprise that can well be conceived.  To occupy such a country, from 200 to 500 Families are immediately wanted the coming spring, who can start together, grow rich together, and live and die together, and be surrounded in a short time by all the comforts, and many of the [ ? ] of life with Pleasant Homes…T. Elwell.

Real Estate Held for sale in St. Cloud, Mille Lae, Geneva, and Fremont, as well as various places in the country, by T. Elwell.

Horses and many other kinds of property usually for sale by T. Elwell.

A Two Horse, double seated carriage now on hand.  Price $150.  Also a Daguerrean Car in Minneapolis, easily converted into a pleasant movable office.  T. Elwell.

Real Estate generally on hand, to exchange for good horses and cattle. T. Elwell.

Albumenized Photographs, A Very pleasing and desirable kind of pictures, will usually be kept for sale at Wales’ Book store, Lower Town, St Anthony.  Please call and examine them, before purchasing views of Minnesota scenery.  T. Elwell.

All communications should for the present, be addressed to the subscriber at St. Anthony.  Present residence three miles from town; in the spring at Grant City.  Talmadge Elwell.

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[1] The Daguerreian Annual, 1992, P. 59-72.  The Diary Of Tallmadge Elwell Pioneer Daguerreotypist 1852 by James Taylor Dunn.