1855                50 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts.[1]

1856                Market Street, Lynn, Massachusetts.

1858                Address Unknown, Lynn, Massachusetts.¹

1856 January 18.  Lynn News.  (Lynn, Massachusetts.)  January 8, 1856, Vol. 13, No. 4, P. 2.

Gallery of Female Beauty.  Prizes amounting to $20,000 for the likenesses of the Handsomest Woman in America.—Daguerreotypes of beautiful females taken Without Expense To The Sitters, by the first artists in the country!—The celebrated enterprise of Mr. P. T. Barnum, “The Gallery Of American Female Beauty,” is now being actively carried out by the proprietors of Barnum’s American Museum in New York, Messrs. Greenwood & Butler, as originally designed by Mr. B.

The premium for the likeness of the handsomest lady is $1,000; for the next most handsomest, $300; the next, $200; the next $150, the next $100; and the next ninety $25 each.  The entire one hundred are to be painted in oil portraits, by distinguished artists, and the Ten Handsomest of All will be engraved for the World’s Book of Beauty in Paris.  The following artists will take the daguerreotypes, in this city, free of All expense to the sitter:  T. S. Williams & Hill, opposite Lynn Depot; Bower’s Gallery, L. Ingalls, operator, Market street.

Advertisement ran from January 18 to February 1, 1856.

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[1] A Directory Of Massachusetts Photographers 1839-1900.