1859-1861       63 Court Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

1861-1862       203 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1863-1867       90 Studio Building, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1867-1869       145 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1870-1882       147 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1882-1888       44 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1888-1889       53 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1889                44 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1890-1891       53 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1891-1893       122 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1894-1916       16 Arlington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1865 September 20.  Boston Evening Traveler.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 20, 1865, Vol. XXI, No. 144, P. 2.

The Mechanics’ Association Fair.  Opening Day.  At noon to-day, the doors of Faneuil Hall were thrown open to the public, and the fair of the Mass. Charitable Mechanics’ Association was inaugurated under favorable auspices…

Sections 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 constitute a splendid gallery of photographs, in which magnificent specimens from the first masters of the art arranged by hundreds.  Here are Black & Case, Augusta Marshall, A. Sourel, T. R. Burnham, Allen, John A. Whipple, Getchell & Brownell, Masury, Sowle [sic.] and others.

1865 September 22.  Boston Evening Traveler.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 22, 1865, Vol. XXI, No. 145, P. 2.

The Mechanics’ Association Fair.  The Fair at Faneuil Hall and Quincy Halls is constantly and largely patronized, and is evidently to be in every respect a thorough success.  We would advise all visitors to look especially at the photograph gallery in Faneuil Hall, where five alcoves are devoted…

Display Of Photography.  The numbers of the alcoves are overhead on the face of the gallery, and we believe that in the whole exhibition there is nothing more magnificent than the single case of painting on porcelain, in alcove 12, near the door.

It contains eight or ten faces, and the beauty of the colors, the rich warm expression of the eyes, the delicacy of the outlines and the exquisite perfection of the workmanship cannot fail to elicit the heartiest admiration of every visitor.  It is a difficult and beautiful art, that the porcelain portrait painting, and these specimens reflect great credit on the house that exhibits them—that of Masury, photographer and artist, No. 289 Washington street, opposite Warren’s old store.

In alcove 9, the fourth from the door, on the North side of Faneuil Hall, is one of the most singularly truthful and superb likenesses of Senator Sumner, large size, that we ever saw.  It is on the left side of the alcove in the collection of Augustus Marshall, the photographist of classic works of No. 90 Studio Building.

Right above it, in a square gilt frame, is a superb picture of Rev. Dr. Huntington, the rector of the Episcopal Church of the Emmanuel, and former professor in Harvard College—a life like and attractive work.  Beneath are copies of two celebrated pictures by old masters, one a Madonna.

Black & Case, of 163 and 173 Washington street, have the whole of alcove 8, and they have a superb show of scores of richly colored cabinet portraits and photographic landscapes.  Here the visitor, too, may see the life size portraits of numbers of men whose names have been made immortal in the great rebellion,—there Generals Stevenson, Meade, Dix, Lowell, Bartlett, who did such gallant deeds at Port Hudson, Tilton, Anderson of Fort Sumter memory, and Burnside, Colonels Griswold, Coggswell, Leonard, Palfrey, Kurtz (the Boston Chief of Police), Howe, Major Goodrich, Professor Phelps, and others; group pictures, including officers of the 9th battery, those of the Director, a class of Dr. Lewis’s, and so on.  The alcove is in itself a whole exhibition, and shows conclusively to what a high standard the art of photography may be carried in skilful hands.

1867 October 18.  Lowell Daily Citizen and News.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  October 18, 1867, Vol. XVII, No. 3512, P. 2.

Premions [sic.] At The Fair.  The publication of the list of premiums at the Mechanic Fair is concluded below…

Class O.

Paintings, Statuary Drawings, Engravings, Lithographs, Daguerreotypes, Photographs, &c…

Nathaniel C. Sanborn, Lowell, photographs, bronze medal.

Asa B. Eaton, Lowell, photographs, bronze medal.

George C. Gilchrest, Lowell, Lowell, photographs, bronze medal.

Andrew J. Simpson, Lowell, photographs. Bronze medal.

August Marshall, Boston, photographs, bronze medal.

J. S. Notman & Co., Boston, photographs, bronze medal. 

1916 November 2.  The Boston Herald.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 2, 1916, Vol. CXL, No. 125, P. 9.

Famous Old Photographer Dies In Newton.  Augustus Marshall Made His First Picture in 1858 and Later Had as Sitters Henry Wilson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John B. Gough, Theodore Parker and Teresa Carreno. 

Augustus Marshall, who was Boston’s oldest photographer is dead at his home in Newton after an illness of a week.  He was about 81 years of age and made his first pictures in 1858, group pictures of Morris Brothers, Pell & Trowbridge’s minstrels, that were hung at the dooirway of the company’s old exhibition hall on Washington street.

He first started in business for himself in 1860 at 63 Court street, at a time when there were listed in the Boston City Directory 50 daguerreotypist and 12 photographers.  The following year both branches of the picture art were consolidated as one vocation, and there have since been only “photographers.”  Previous to that time, however, Mr. Marshall had been employed by an “artist” named Hamilton, whose gallery was on the fifth floor of a building at Washington and Bromfield streets.  And later with Marcus Ormsbee, an enterprising ambrotypist at 203 Washington street.  The latter in 1860 anticipated the Boston visit of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward of England.  By procuring from England a small daguerreotype of the royal guest and, copying it by wholesale, flooded the streets with an article that met with a ready and profitable sale.

In 1861 Mr. Marshall became an occupant of the Studio building, at that time a veritable hive of artists of all descriptions, and while there took pictures of many of the celebrities that lived in Boston, as well as a number of distinguished visitors who came to the city.

One of these was Henry Wilson, Massachusetts senator, practically all of whose pictures existing today were taken by Mr. Marshall.  Another was Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was an amateur in wet photography, invited Mr. Marshall to his home on many occasions, and “when interest in the things at hand began to sag,” to quote Mr. Marshall in a recent interview, “Dr. Holmes would pull down his violin and give me a brief concert.  In other words the doctor fiddled while I experimented, and I shall never forget those Charles street visits when I led the ‘Autocrat’ into one branch of our business.”

Among other familiar visitors to Mr. Marshall’s studio in the early days were John B. Gough, temperance orator of fame, Wyzeman Marshall, the heavy man of the local Thespians:  Theodore Parker, W. M. Hunt, painter and in 1863, Teresa Carreno, the child pianist, who years afterward when she had become a mature woman, returned and paid as visit “for old times sake,” to the man through whose art she had in part became famous.  Mr. Marshall for the last 25 years, and up to the time of his illness, conducted a studio at 16 Arlington street.

Mr. Marshall is survived by two sons and two daughters, Charles P. and Loring L. Marshall, and Emma F. and Helen L. Marshall. All of Newton.  The funeral service will be held tomorrow at his late home, 17 Willard Street.

1916 November 3.  The Boston Herald.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 3, 1916, Vol. CXL, No. 126, P. 15.

Died.  Marshall—At Newton, No. 1.  Augustus Marshall in his 81st yr.  Funeral services at his late residence 17 Willard st. Newton.  Friday, Nov. 3, at 2 P. M. Relatives and friends invited.

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