1853                Rooms at Brown’s Hotel, Petersham, Massachusetts.

1853 September 16.  Barre Patriot.  (Barre, Massachusetts.)  September 16, 1853, Vol. X, No. 10, P. 3.

Daguerrean Gallery.  William Haskell, would respectfully inform the citizens of Petersham and vicinity that he has taken rooms at Brown’s Hotel, in Petersham, where he is prepared to make his Excelsior Daguerreotypes with all the latest improvements, giving the eye, with all its brilliancy, from the lighter blue to the jet black.  Daguerreotypes inserted in Lockets, pins and rings, and warranted not to fade.

Miniatures, Portraits, Views, &c., copied with accuracy.  Persons wishing likenesses of sick or deceased friends, can be waited upon at their dwellings, by given one hour’s notice.

Ladies and gentlemen are invited to call and examine specimens.  A splendid assortment of cases and frames constantly on hand.

Advertisement was recorded twice on September 16 & 30, 1853.