1846                489 Main Street, over W. & D. Scott’s Jewelry Store, Louisville, Kentucky.

1848                477 Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

1852-1855       Corner Fifth & Main Streets, Louisville, Kentucky.

1846 March 13.  Louisville Daily Democrat.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  March 13, 1846, Vol II, No. 202, P. 2.

We call attention to the advertisement of Mr. M. Hewet.  Mr. H. has been long a citizen of our own city, and those who want their prettf faces taken in the best style of daguerreotype, can call at his establishment on Main, between Third and Fourth streets, and they will be accommodated.

1846 March 13.  Louisville Daily Democrat.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  March 13, 1846, Vol II, No. 202, P. 2.

Hewett’s Daguerreotype Miniature Gallery, No. 489 Main street, over W. & D. Scott’s Jewelry Store, The subscriber is now ready to supply a superior style of likenesses at his new Gallery.  No pains spared to suit all tastes, and no charge made unless entire satisfaction is given.  Call and see his specimens.  Group, or singly, taken in any weather, set neatly in Frames, Morocco Cases, Lockets, or Pins.

Instruments and stock of all kinds on hand.  Instruction given in the art on Moderate terms.

Advertisement ran from March 13 to July 17, 1846.

1848 August 26.  The Examiner.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  August 26, 1848, Vol. II, No. 63, P. 2.

Daguerreotype Portraits.  Educated man is continually compelling the powers of nature to labor for him.  The water spins and weaves for him, and in the front of vapor rows his boats; the lightning carries his letters; and the sun has been made to become his portrait painter.  To have portraits of our friends will soon be considered almost a necessary of life.  Friend after friend departs, and we soon find the cherished features of the loved ones departed also.  Who has not felt as if part of his soul were leaving him, as he perceives one feature after another of the lost friend fading away?  And who, in such circumstances, has not felt that a portrait, which would serve to recall the loved image, would be more precious than jewels?  The Patrician families of Rome kept in their halls the images of their ancestors; and none but those who had borne the higher honors of the State had the right of transmitting these images.  In our day and country every one may be a noble in this respect, and every family Patrician; for even poverty is scarcely a bar.

But the sun does not work for all alike.  Like the Eastern genii, he performs wonders when properly invoked; but like them, he requires to be called by a skillful magician.  Mr. Hewett, of our city, knows all the “spells of power” that bring him forth, and the Paint King seems to take pleasure in working for him in his best and most graceful style.

1848 December 19.  Louisville Daily Democrat.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  December 19, 1848, Vol V, No. 134, P. 3.

Hewett’s National Daguerrean Gallery, No. 477 Main st., 2d door from I. Raphael & Co.

Here Art, triumphant, our attention claims;

Here life seems speaking from a hundred frames—

Belies, merchants, statesmen throng the pictured walls;

Each face, each form its living type recalls.

Features, complexion, attitude, attire,

Beauty’s soft smile and manhood’s glance of fire,

Truly reflected from the burnished plate,

Astonish Life with its own duplicate.

Think not these portraits by the sunlight made,

Shades through they are, will like a shadow fade.

Not when the lip of flesh in dust shall lie—

When Death’s grey films o’erspread the beaming eye,

Hewett’s life-like pictures, mocking at decay,

Will still be fresh and vivid as to day!

Advertisement ran from December 19 to 25, 1848.

1851 June 25.  The Louisville Weekly Journal.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  June 25, 1851, Vol. XXI, No. 31, P. 1.

Masonic Temple.—According to pre-arrangement the ceremony of laying the corner stone of this new edifice came off yesterday…

In the corner-stone that was laid was deposited a box containing the following articles:

16.  A box containing specimens of the daguerreotype art, 13 likenesses, from J. M. Hewett’s gallery.

17.  Two daguerreotype views of Main street, from the gallery of J. W. Stancliff.

1852 March 10.  The Bardstown Herald.  (Bardstown, Kentucky.)  March 10, 1852, Vol. 2, No. 41, P. 2.

By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that our old friend Hewett, the chief of Daguerreotypist ask his Bardstown friends to call on him when making their visits to the city of Louisville.  You will always find him ready, willing and waiting to attend to you, in his room opposite the Journal office, and next door to the Northern Bank of  Kentucky.

1852 March 10.  The Bardstown Herald.  (Bardstown, Kentucky.)  March 10, 1852, Vol. 2, No. 41, P. 2.

Hewett’s National Daguerrean Gallery.  Louisville, KY.  Next To Northern Bank, Corner of Fifth And Main, And Opposite Louisville Journal Office.

Hewett’s old friends in Bardstown and vicinity will please call and see him when in Louisville, “The latch string is never pulled in.”  J. M. Hewett, T. F. Brown, Operators.           

Advertisement ran from March 10, 1852 to January 13, 1853.

1853 January 20.  The Bardstown Herald.  (Bardstown, Kentucky.)  January 20, 1853, Vol. 2, No. 41, P. 2.

Hewett’s National Daguerrean Gallery.  Louisville, KY.  Next To Northern Bank, Corner of Fifth And Main, And Opposite Louisville Journal Office.

Hewett’s old friends in Bardstown and vicinity will please call and see him when in Louisville, “The latch string is never pulled.”  J. M. Hewett, T. F. Brown, Operators.           

Advertisement ran from January 20 to May 31, 1853.

1853 July 14.  The Louisville Daily Journal.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  July 14, 1853, Vol. XXIII, No. 196, P. 1.

Hewett’s National Daguerrean Gallery.  Next door to Northern Bank, corner Fifth and Main sts.  S. P. Brown, Proprietor.

After selling out the old Gallery, over Isaac Cromoe’s paper store, Hewett visited the Eastern cities, where he purchased for the proprietor a large and choice stock of Materials, Cameras of the late improved order, as also several valuable improvements in the style and execution of Daguerreotypes.  These, with his long practice in the art fully justify the proprietor in saying that he can now furnish to his former customers and friends finer and more exquisitely finished Miniatures than have ever been offered to this community.  n19.

Advertisement was recorded from July 15 to December 30, 1853.

1853 September 24.  The Louisville Daily Journal.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  September 24, 1853, Vol. XXIII, No. 257, P. 2.

Valuable Improvement.  The greatest improvement in Daguerreotype art, and the only decided improvement, is Macher’s application of the Stereoscope to Daguerrean Portraiture.  Call and see specimens of this truly wonderful advancement in the art at Hewett’s Daguerrean Gallery, on Fourth street, next door to Mrs. Beattie’s fancy store,

Advertisement ran from September 24 to October 10, 1853.

1853 September 24.  The Louisville Daily Journal.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  September 24, 1853, Vol. XXIII, No. 257, P. 3.

Beautiful Improvements in Daguerreotypes.—The Scientific American, in a notice of Meacher’s elegant invention in the daguerreotype art by which the daguerreotype case is converted into a stereotype, thus speaks of its superior merits:

In a short period, no person, we believe, will have a likeness taken by a daguerreotypist but stereoscopically.  As these cases are no larger than the old kind, who would have a flat picture to look at, when the solid life-like likeness can thus be produced.  No one can have the least idea of the beauty of this invention, until he sees such pictures with his eyes.  By this improvement, husbands will, when thousands of miles separate, be enabled to see their wives standing before them in breathing beauty, wives their husbands, and lovers their sweethearts.  It is a  noble and elevating art, which perpetuates to posterity the looks of those we love or revere; this improvement will enable us to look upon the loved and respected when far away, or when they are in the tomb; it will enable us to see them as they were with us, and posterity will know how they are ourselves looked without trusting to the flattery or faults of a limner’s pencil.

We have seen most exquisite specimens of this great improvement at Hewett’s gallery on Fourth street, between Jefferson and Market, and we have no hesitation in pronouncing them infinitely superior to daguerreotypes made in the usual way without this invention.  By means of lenes and a peculiar arrangement of the images a likeness is made to stand out in such perfect relief as to give it all the fulness, roundness, and expression of actual Life.  We cannot imagine that any further improvement can be made in daguerreotypes unless this magic art shall infuse breath and speech and motion into its lifelike creations.  We are pleased to learn that Mr. Hewett has secured the exclusive right of making these stereoscopes in Louisville, for, in coming from his well known master hand, they must posses all the perfection that art can give them.  We advise all to examine for themselves these wonderful pictures.

1853 October 31.  The Louisville Daily Journal.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  October 31, 1853, Vol. XXIII, No. 28, P. 3.

Webster & Bro. take no pictures for less than $2; Hewett $2, Brown $1.50, Carpenter & Harris (from Cincinnati) $1.  P. S. We forgot to mention an old colored woman (from Africa) who tells fortunes and “cuts profiles” for fifteen cents.

Advertisement ran from October 31 to November 8, 1853.

1854 March 1.  The Daily Louisville Times.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  March 1, 1854, Vol. III, No. 1, P. 2.

Hewett’s Gallery.  Hewett, the Daguerreotypist , has his Gallery on Fourth street, between Market and Jefferson, west side, over G. Gillis & Son’s Dry Goods store.  His present arrangement of light enables him to furnish Miniatures without regard to weather.  au10.

1854 November 1.  The Louisville Weekly Journal.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  November 1, 1854, Vol. XXIV, No. 49, P. 4.

Awards Of Committees Of The Kentucky Merchants Institute, For The Exhibition Of September And October 1854…

No. 50.

J. M. Hewett, first class diploma for Crystallotypes.

Webster & Bro., second class diploma for Crystallotypes.

Webster & Bro., first class diploma for Daguerreotypes.

J. A. Sheldon, second class diploma for Daguerreotypes.

Harris, second class diploma for Daguerreotypes.

1855 May 10.  The Daily Louisville Democrat.  (Louisville, Kentucky.)  May 10, 1855, Vol. XI, No. 229, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes and Photographs, Corner of Fifth and main streets.  Hewett & Brown are sending out daily the finest specimens of the two arts.

They will at all times be found ready to fill all orders on short notice, either taken from life or copies from Portraits or Daguerreotypes.  Life-size Photographs made from the smallest Daguerreotypes, and furnished colored in oil or water—the best artist in the city employed to do the coloring.  Call and see specimens.

Hewett’s former customers can here obtain the same superior Daguerreotypes that have secured him premiums over all competitors at the Mechanics Fairs. 

Advertisement ran from May 10 to July 17, 1855.