1856-1860 13 & 15 Paddock’s Arcade, Watertown, New York.
1856 July 17. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) July 17, 1856, Vol. VI, No. 47, P. 2.
Westcott’s Daguerrean Gallery!! Still Takes The Lead, No.’s 13 and 15 Paddock’s Arcade. Hart & Hose. (Successors to C. P. Westcott,) Are now operating in this extensive gallery, and continue to gain the confidence and approbation of the public, by furnishing those unequalled pictures, such as Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Photographs And Micas, From the smallest to the largest size Photographs, in Oil Colors, Water Colors, and plain. A large assortment of Gold Lockets, Cameras, Frames, cases, Plates, Chemicals, Apparatus, &c., Wholesale & Retail.
Advertisement ran from July 17, 1856 to April 9, 1857.
1856 October 2. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) October 2, 1856, Vol. VII, No. 6, P. 1.
Jefferson County Fair….Premiums Awarded September 1856….Discretionary…Class 33.—Pictures Of All Kinds….
Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes, Hart & Hose, Watertown, Dip. & $2.00
1857 April 16. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) April 16, 1857, Vol. VII, No. 34, P. 3.
He Didn’t Read The Papers! No, Indeed! Or Else He Never Would have gone anywhere else, but to Hart & Hose’s Premium Picture Gallery, Arcade, No.’s 13 & 15, where he can get those unequalled Pictures, such as Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Melainotypes, Ambrographs, and Photographs.
Give us a call, and satisfy yourselves of what we say. Advice Gratis!
Read the papers, particularly our advertisement in another column. Hart & Hose.
Advertisement ran from April 16 to July 23, 1857.
1857 April 16. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) April 16, 1857, Vol. VII, No. 34, P. 3.
Westcott’s Daguerrean Gallery!! Still Takes The Lead, No.’s 13 and 15 Paddock’s Arcade. Hart & Hose. (Successors to C. P. Westcott,) Are now operating in this extensive gallery, and continue to gain the confidence and approbation of the public, by furnishing those unequalled pictures, such as Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Photographs, Melainotypes, &c., &c.
Pictures taken in this Gallery are acknowledged by all who have seen them to be unsurpassed in the world. No Pains or expense has been spared in fitting this establishment for the production of Daguerreotypes in the best style and finish the Art is capable of producing, Pictures taken at all hours of the day, equally well in cloudy weather by a new And beautiful invention of a Quick Worker, which takes a picture in less than half the time of any ordinary instrument now in use, and the only one in use in the county. Photographs in Oil Colors, Water Colors and Plain! A large Assortment of Gold Lockets, Cameras, Frames Cases, Plates, Chemicals, Apparatus, &c. Wholesale and Retail.
Our rooms are the most pleasantly located in the State. They are richly furnished, easy of access, and we always satisfy our customers, in quality of Pictures and the prices we charge Our aim is To Please.
The reputation of our Gallery for taking Beautiful and life-like Pictures, is not surpassed, and it shall be our endeavor to increase it. We were awarded the First Premium, a Silver Medal and Diploma, at the last State Fair, on our Pictures.
Give us a Call, and Satisfy Yourselves of what we say. Hart & Hose.
Advertisement ran from April 16 to September 24, 1857.
1857 June 25. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) June 25, 1857, Vol. VII, No. 44, P. 2.
In Summer Rig.—Messrs. Hart & Hose, successors in Westcott’s Daguerrean Gallery have recently refitted, and re-furnished their rooms in a most elegant and tasteful manner. Their parlor rivals in furniture and decorations the best mansions in our mist. They are all ready for calls.
1857 July 16. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) July 16, 1857, Vol. VII, No. 47, P. 2.
Beautiful Present.—Messrs. Hart & Hose of the Daguerrean Gallery in the Arcade, have presented Jefferson Hose Co. No. 3, with a beautiful Ambrotype of the Company in uniform. With such skill and success is the picture taken, that nearly every member in the Company can be recognized in the picture.
The plate was beautifully framed and made a present to the Company.
1857 October 1. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) October 1, 1857, Vol. VIII, No. 6, P. 1.
Jefferson County Agricultural Society. Premiums Awarded…Pictures…
Best Specimens Daguerreotypes, Hart & Hose, Watertown, Dip. $1.00.
2d Best Specimens Daguerreotypes, Thos. Waite, Pamelia, book.
Best Specimens Photographs, Hart & Hose, Watertown, Dip. & $1.00.
2d Best Specimens Photographs, G. S. Rugg, Watertown, book.
Miss Alice Smith, Watertown, recommended, $3.00.
Hart & Hose, Watertown, recommended, $2.00
Those recommend a discretionary premium of $3.00 to No. 207 for best Ambrotypes, also one of $2.00 to No. 65 for 2d best Ambrotypes.
The committee would recommend that, at the next annual exhibition there be one premium for the best ambrotypes and one for the 2d best, and also a premium for the best ambrotype views. A large portion of the pictures exhibited were of this character, and as they form a very interesting part of the exhibition the committee have recommended premiums to be given, and that greater inducement be offered by the society hereafter for the exhibition of specimens of art. E. Q. Sewall, T. C. Chittenden, Jr., E. H. Smith, Judges.
1858 April 8. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) April 8, 1858, Vol. VIII, No. 33, P. 2.
Beautiful Pictures. At the gallery of Messrs. Hart & Hose, in the Arcade, Messrs. S. J. Fowler and hart are producing some of the best toned pictures we have ever seen. They are making Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Photographs and Hallotypes of the very finest tone and finish. In the Photographs, Mr. Fowler possesses rare skill, and brings out a splendid picture.
The Hallotype is a new thing. It is a combination of two photographs, one of which is transparent, and through which the other is seen. This surpasses in softness of tone and in freshness of coloring, all the pictures we have seen produced by the Daguerrean art.—By turning to the Advertisement of Messrs. Hart & Fowler, the reader may see more in detail, the afforded at their gallery.
1858 April 8. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) April 8, 1858, Vol. VIII, No. 33, P. 2.
Spring Arrangement. Pictures For The Million! The old Arcade Gallery still takes the lead. Hart & Fowler Having Entered Into and arrangement for the purpose of making all kinds of Life-like Likenesses at the old stand of Hart & Hose, beg leave to say to all the good people hereabouts that they are now prepared to furnish all who may want them with Photographs, Ambrotypes or Daguerreotypes In the very best style of the art. Mr. Fowler having lately been to the city, where he has spent three months with some of the best Photographers for the purpose of learning to make that much-admired style of Portraiture, and, in addition to three years experimenting heretofore, now feels confident that he can suit the most fastidious.
Mr. F. will devote his time to the making of Photographs, and Mr. Hart will attend to the Ambrotype and Daguerreotype Department, wherein his skill and taste stand unrivaled in Northern New York. By this arrangement we shall be enabled to keep all branches up to perfection.
We are weekly receiving, direct from the manufacturer, all the latest styles of Cases, Frames, &c.
Call and see us before getting your work done elsewhere, as we are sure we can suit you as to quality or price.
Advertisement ran from April 8 to June 10, 1858.
1858 July 1. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) July 1, 1858, Vol. VIII, No. 45, P. 3.
Hart & Hose Nos. 13 and 15, Over the Post Office, Arcade.
Photographs By Hart & Hose (Total of 20 times, repeated)
Ambrotypes By Hart & Hose (Total of 20 times, repeated)
Melanotypes By Hart & Hose (Total of 20 times, repeated)
Daguerreotypes By Hart & Hose (Total of 20 times, repeated)
Cheap As Any In Town (Total of 20 times, repeated)
1858 September 23. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) September 23, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 5, P. 2.
Messrs. Hart & Hose have our thanks for a beautiful photograph of Wm. E. Everett, chief engineer of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
1858 September 30. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) September 30, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 6, P. 2.
Jefferson Co. Agricult’l Society. Award of Premiums. September 23, 1858….Pictures…
Best specimen of Ambrotypes, Hart & Hose, Watertown……….dip. and $1.00
Best specimen of melainotypes, Hart & Hose, Watertown……….dip. and $1.00
Best specimen of Daguerreotypes, Hart & Hose, Watertown……dip. and $1.00
Best specimen of photographs, Hart & Hose, Watertown………..dip. and $1.00
2d Best specimen of photographs, Hart & Hose, Watertown…….book
1858 November 18. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) November 18, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 13, P. 3.
Independent Candidates. At the earnest solicitation of our numerous friends and patrons, and after due consideration of the responsibility of such an undertaking, we have concluded to offer ourselves as candidates for the honor of representing the Twenty-third District in the Great Convention Of Fine Arts to assemble at Paris in 1860.
In asking the support of the voters of this district, we beg leave to say that Ladies, Gentlemen and Children are voters for this great object, and that the votes of all such will be received from this time to the 1st July, 1860. A true picture in Ambrotype, Daguerreotype, or Photograph, in any size or style, will be given to each voter as a receipt for their votes. Our platform is—Truth, Beauty, Neatness, Despatch and Economy, and all pictures guaranteed as represented. Hart & Hose, Arcade Gallery.
Advertisement ran from November 18, 1858 to January 20, 1859.
1859 January 27. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) January 27, 1859, Vol. IX, No. 23, P. 3.
Hart & Hose, (repeated a total of four times.)
Nos. 13 & 15, (repeated a total of four times.)
Paddock’s Arcade, Watertown, (repeated a total of four times.)
Have The Best (repeated a total of four times.)
Sky-Light And Rooms (repeated a total of four times.)
In The World (repeated a total of four times.)
Don’t Go Home Without Your Picture (repeated a total of four times.)
Taken At (repeated a total of four times.)
Hart & Hose’s.
Advertisement ran from January 27 to September 22, 1859.
1859 May 12. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) May 12, 1859, Vol. IX, No. 38, P. 2.
—Fine Daguerreotypes. Messrs. Hart & Hose are still unsurpassed in turning out pictures that are fine of fine quality, and true to nature.
1859 August 11. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) August 11, 1859, Vol. IX, No. 51, P. 3.
Don’t Read This!
Hart & Hose, Daguerreans.
Throughout the world this fact now stands approved
That minds of men by reason must be moved;
That sense asserts her sway—controls the crowd
And tho’ her voice be neither high nor loud,
Speaks strongly for the beat, the just, the true,
And leads mankind to do what they should do.
Thus scanning o’er the columns of this paper—
News, advertisements, and “poetic vapor.”
Strayed, stolen, lost, and piles of “local lore,”
Or new subscribers wished—a thousand more,
Dry Goods and Groceries, Boots and Shoes and duns
And fathers shirking debts of sprightly “sons,”
All meet the eye for one ephemeral day,
To pass forever from our sight away;
No trace remains—no precious prize at hand,
Swept the next moment to oblivion’s land.
Thus are the mass—but one dear sport remains
A welcome print—a panacea for pains.
It tells a fact that everybody knows,
That wond’rous are the works of Hart & Hose.
Wond’rous Daguerreotypes—highest works of art,
Whose execution conquers every heart,
Ambrotypes, Melainotypes, and Photographs in number
Before whose merits other artist slumber.
Pictures of all kinds, taken great or small,
From $5.00 down to just nothing at all,
And cases from which you never refuse
To be suited—that is if you are willing to choose;
They are willing and ready to give every one,
A picture of parent, daughter or son,
Or sweet hearts, or cousins, or nieces or aunts,
Provided you’ll only just give them a chance,
And give them a little to pay for the stock—
If you don’t you’ll give them a terrible shock,—
And that’s a bad give which you’d much better keep.
If you wish on your pillows in quite sleep.
Most tastefully dressed in the choicest of cases,
They’ll cheerfully put your good natured faces,
And Time before whom we mortals turn gray,
Can never seduce their bright freshness away.
The years may grow many, and you may grow old,
But your pictures will live just as clear and bold
As on that blest day when to guard against woes
At the Daguerrean Gallery of Hart & Hose,
(Number 13 and 15 in Paddock’s Arcade.)
A brief, hasty visit you carelessly paid.
Pray give us a call—we endeavor to please,
And we honestly believe we can do so with ease.
Satisfaction we give, or we ask for no pay,
And with this we will bid you a hearty good day.
1859 November 17. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) November 17, 1859, Vol. X, No. 13, P. 3.
Arcade Daguerrean Gallery, 2nd Floor, Over Post-Office. Open from 7 ½ o’clock a. m. to 9 p. m. On Exhibition and for sale, every evening until further notice, a new collection of Stereoscopic Pictures and Instruments—new and interesting subjects—such as Views Of Harper’s Ferry, Blonden and DeLave on the Tight Rope, Instantaneous Views of Sloops and Ferry Boats, under Full Sail. Views of the Public Square during the Inflation of the Ill-fated Balloon “Atlantic.” And a Host of other New Pictures, all from life.
Photographs, Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Melainotypes, Made only at this Gallery with perfect success and satisfaction. Having just received New Instruments, with important Improvements, I am bow Better Prepared to make Pictures Inferior To None in Northern New York, as to tone, finish and durability.
Reasons why the arcade Gallery has the Preference:
1. Most attractive and pleasantly furnished.
2. It introduces all New improvements and new styles of cases and Frames.
3. Has no Specimens on Exhibition but what are made at this Gallery.
4. Has the only Sky and Side Light in town.
5. A perfect picture of Groups and difficult subjects cannot be made without the combination of Sky and Side-Lights.
6. The proprietor flatters himself by saying his patience will hold out in taking pictures of difficult subjects and children.
7. None but first-class artists are allowed to operate at this Gallery.
8. Call and satisfy yourself, as I Will Not Be Undersold!
Ladies are particularly invited to examine this stock of Stereoscopic Pictures and Instruments.
N. B. This is the only Gallery where there no Boys employed, or misrepresentations used to attract attention. C. S. Hart, late Hart & Hose.
Advertisement ran from November 17, 1859 to June 14, 1860.
1859 December 8. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) December 8, 1859, Vol. X, No. 16, P. 2.
—A Speaking Likeness. Many of our friends have flatteringly noticed the splendid large photograph of the Hon. Charles B. Hoard, which we have placed over the desk in our office, and all ask “where was it taken.” Justice to Mr. Hart, whose gallery is in the Arcade, requires us to state thus publicly that it was taken by him with his new, improved large instrument—and he can take others just as good.—For tone, finish, and genuine excellence, his pictures are hard to beat—a fact we have the most ample evidence to sustain. Mr. Hoard’s likeness is one of the very best we ever saw, and delineates, as much as does the countenance of the original, his leading characteristics—undying courage and a will which never is satisfied short of the accomplishment of its desire.
1859 December 15. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) December 15, 1859, Vol. X, No. 17, P. 2.
—A Genuine Likeness Of John Brown may be seen by calling at Hart’s Gallery in the Arcade, or at Fowler’s Rooms, in Washington Hall Building. They are from a photograph taken of Brown at Winsted, Conn., in 1857, and may be relied on as genuine.
1860 March 15. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) March 15, 1860, Vol. X, No. 30, P. 2.
Artistic and Beautiful. Hart, of the Arcade Gallery of fine arts, has produced a very attractive collection of faces (photographs), comprising the principal operatives on the Watertown & Rome Railroad, designed as a present by them to Carlos Dutton, esq. late superintendent. The familiar physiognomies are W. H. Briggs, master mechanic, J. S. McBride, track master, R. E. Smiley, freight agent at Rome, N. Hosselton, W. H. Fuller, D. N. Bosworth, F. Estes and C. C. Case, conductors, H. C. Bacon, clerk, H. A. Hatch, J. Graves and S. Bickford, agents. As a testimonial of friendship it is highly appropriate, and the artistic execution is very fine indeed.
1860 May 3. The New York Reformer. (Watertown, New York.) May 3, 1860, Vol. X, No. 37, P. 3.
A card. The Undersigned, proprietor of the Arcade Daguerrean Gallery, would respectfully inform his friends and patrons that there has been no change made in connection with these Rooms by which their reputation is in any degree lessened for making First-Class Pictures of all kinds.
The proprietor has been connected with this establishment for the past eight years, and flatters himself that he can please all who desire good work at low prices. All persons wishing work, will do well to call and examine a New Style of Picture, which is made exclusively at this Gallery. C. S. Hart.
Advertisement ran from May 3 to 24, 1860.
Pioneer American Photographers, 1839 - 1860 