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Barber

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There are two entries for Barber with no first name given in the advertisements, it is unknown if they are the same person or not.  Barber 1 is listed in partnership of Martin & Barber.  The advertisement was recorded on August 15 and ran until September 5, 1856 in the Jamestown Journal, (Jamestown, New York.) 

 

Here where you get your Money Back.  New Daguerrean Gallery In Jamestown.  Over the Ware Room of Loucks & Bush, Hazzard Block, where the subscribers will be ready to wait upon all who favor them with a call.  Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes made and put up in every style now known in the Art.  Call and see us one and all.  Our Prices will vary always to suit customers.  Now is the time to get good Pictures and pay no more than their true value.     Martin & Barber.  

 

Entry for Barber 2 was recorded on November 11 & 18, 1857 in the Penn Yan Democrat, (Penn-Yan, New York.) 

    

Barber’s Mammoth Sky-Light Daguerrean Gallery.  Good Pictures taken or “no Pay.”  Rooms opposite the Yates County Bank, and directly over the Shoe Store of H. D. Pratt, where I am prepared with all the necessary fixtures, together with a most excellent Sky-Light (better cannot be had) to take Pictures Of All Kinds, “Rain or Shine.”  I am satisfied that I can produce Pictures of such an Expression, Tone and Finish as will please the purchaser, otherwise “No Pay.” 

A few hints:  Dark Clothes Take Best.  The Hair Should Be Free From Oil Or Moisture.

Children’s Likenesses taken in from 2 to 4 seconds between the hours of 11 A. M. and 2 P. M.

Instructions given in all its branches on very reasonable terms.  Lockets, Pins and Rings Filled, Copying Transfer Pictures &c., &c., taken at the above Gallery.

 

Samuel Balliette

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July 30, 1858 recorded in The Wyandot Pioneer, published in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.  Report of a Shooting Affray in Mansfield, Ohio on July 24.—At half-past seven o’clock, this morning, as J. H. Cook, proprietor of the Wilder House in this city, was standing in the public room of his house, about ten feet from the street door, with his back Partly towards it, conversing with A. T. Bates, Samuel Balliette, a daguerrean artist, stepped into the doorway unperceived, and discharged a revolver at Mr. Cook, the shot taking effect in the right side, just below the hip, making a severe, but not dangerous wound.  The revolver was snapped twice before Balliette was seized and disarmed.  Mr. Balliette is under arrest and will have his examination on Monday next.—Mr. Cook is one of our most respectable and enterprising citizens.  The cause of the outrage is not fully known, but is supposed to be some misunderstanding about money matters.

Reported on August 2, in the Cleveland Morning Leader.  (Cleveland, Ohio.)  That Samuel Balliet, the daguerrean, who recently fired at and wounded J. H. Cook, proprietor of the Wilder House, has had a preliminary examination in which no evidence was offered on the part of the defense.  The Prisoner was held in bonds of $2,000.  Mr. Cook is pronounced out of danger, and is rapidly recovering.

Samuel Balliette or Balliet, was not recorded in other directories or histories that were referenced.

 

D. B. Bailey

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Recorded from September 18 to October 2, 1847 in the Plattsburgh Republican. Daguerreotype Miniatures.  D. B. Bailey, Has opened a room in the Fireman’s Hall, where he will be pleased to wait on ladies and gentlemen who will favor him with a call.

Friends that we love in the grave will be laid,                                                                                           Secure then their likeness ere the shadow fades.

No other information on D. B. Bailey has been found in photo-directories.

Bablin

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Recorded in the Lansingburgh Democrat, published in Lansingburgh, New York on February 3d and 10th, 1853.  Two notices appear in the paper which are very confusing, on the third he is listed in the partnership of Irvin & Bablin, Daguerrian Artist, over T. Lavender’s Grocery Store.  The notice goes on to say that we are satisfied that they are artists of considerable merit.  On the 10th they are identified as Ravlen & Irving, the notice mentions that they have just received a new invoice of splendid Pearl, Velvet, and Ivory Inlaid cases, for Daguerreotypes. There is no mention of the two daguerreotypist after the February 10th listing in the newspaper.

In the process of trying to identify who Bablin (Ravlen) and Irvin (Irving) might be. I checked Craig’s Daguerreian Registry.  There was no listing found for Bablin or Ravlen, Under Irvin there is a listing for James Irvin.  John suggest that it is a spelling variant for James Irving.  John says that he was an Itinerate and worked for the Meade Brothers and was in Troy, New York from 1852 to 1861.  The distance from Lansingburgh to Troy is under twelve miles so it is possible that James Irving is part of the partnership based on activity date and location, but this is just speculation on my part.  Bablin/Ravlen remains unknown at this time, but if Irving turns out to be the correct name then that means that Ravlen is possibly the correct name and Bablin is a typo.

 

Axe, William H.

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Recorded in the The Evansville Daily Journal, Evansville, Indiana on October 5, 1859. Below is the full advertisement. It is unknown if he was a photographer or just a salesmen, more research is needed.

Some of the most handsome visiting cards we ever saw were shown us, the other day, by Mr. William H. Axe. Many of them contained tasty little photographic likenesses of the persons for whom they were designed, on the upper corners, while the names were written in a style, and with a beauty rarely equaled.  Mr. Axe has them on exhibition at the Fair, we understand, and we have no doubt they will attract a full share of attention, as well as prove instrumental in procuring several orders from persons visiting the city, who may chance to see them.

George H. Auxer

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George H. Auxer was listed in an announcement on July 12, 1850 in the Lewistown Gazette, published in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.  Mr. G. H. Auxer, a daguerreotypist of high repute, has opened a gallery in Market street, above J. Evans’ chair factory, where he will be prepared to take likenesses in the highest style of the art.

On July 19th in the same paper the following advertisement appears…Daguerreotypes. The undersigned respectfully informs the public that he has taken the room over Mr. John Evans’ Chair Manufactory, where he is prepared to make Daguerreotype Likenesses in the highest style of the art.  He has possessed himself of all the improvements in the art, and is prepared to give as finished and perfect a picture as can be produced in the cities.  Light eyes have heretofore been an obstacle in the way of securing good pictures, but this he is able to obviate.  Call at his rooms and examine the specimens, and judge for yourselves.  Instructions given in the art, on reasonable terms.  Advertisement ran until August 2, 1850.

On January 8 1857 he is again reported in the Lewistown Gazette.  This time they quote the Perry Freeman newspaper which was published in Bloomfield, Pennsylvania “Auxer is nit taking dog-types but ambrotypes…”

Craig’s Daguerreian Registry list Auxer in 1850-1851 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and in 1859-1860 on Elbow Lane near Front Street, Marietta, Pennsylvania.

Moses Atwood

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During the latter part of the nineteenth century, Georgetown continued to prosper as more industries and shops, such as the manufacturing of clothing, cigars, soap, furniture, coffins and caskets, began their businesses here. Hardy’s Lumber Mill cut lumber and made wooden boxes and crates. Moses Atwood made patent medicines and was best known for his “Atwood’s Bitters”. A New York City firm bought the Bitters formula and, under another name, sold the medicine nationally until the mid-1900’s. Atwood also made the first daguerreotypes in town in 1847.[1]

Atwood is a new name and not recorded in A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers, 1839-1900.

[1] Information from the town of Georgetown, Massachusetts website http://www.georgetownma.gov/public_documents/georgetownma_webdocs/about

 

Atkins

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From the March 24, 1859 issue of the Delaware Gazette, published in Delhi, New York.   A list of the premiums awarded at the Delaware County Agricultural Society for—1859…Class L—No. 3—Discretionary.  O’Conner & Atkins received the third best award.  At this time nothing else is known about them, Jones & Ferguson and M. L. Lemily were both from Kortright, N. Y. but no location was given for O’Conner & Atkins.  It’s possible they were from Delhi, N. Y. but there is no proof of that at this time.

For the best ambrotypes,

  • Jones & Ferguson, Kortright,                  $1.00
  • 2d best, M. L. Lemily, Kortright,                  .75
  • 3d best, O’Conner & Atkins,                         .50

Joseph Atkins

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From the New York Daily Tribune, New York, New York, printed on October 29, 1851.

The official declaration of premiums awarded at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Fair of the American Institute for Daguerreotypes. Atkins receives a silver medal for his cameo daguerreotypes.  The full list of premiums awarded are recorded below.

  • M. A. & S. Root, No. 363 Broadway, best Daguerreotypes—Gold Medal.
  • J. Gurney, No. 159 Broadway, 2d best Daguerreotypes,—Silver Medal.
  • J. D. W. Brinkerhoff, No. 383 Broadway, for Still Life Daguerreotype Views—Silver Medal.
  • S. A. Holmes, No. 289 Broadway, Still Life Daguerreotype Views.—Silver Medal.
  • Joseph Atkins, No. 219 Fulton-St., Brooklyn, Cameo Daguerreotype—Silver Medal.
  • H. E. Insley, No 311 Broadway, Illuminated Daguerreotypes—Silver Medal.
  • Krochls & Vetters, No. 499 Broadway, Phototypes—Silver Medal.
  • Mrs. Bertha Wehnert, No. 385 Broadway, Phototypes.—Silver Medal.
  • C. C. Harrison, No. 85 Duane St., Daguerreotype Cameras.—Gold Medal.

Note Craig’s Daguerreian Registry list Atkins as being active from 1848-1852 at 219 Fulton Street, Brooklyn and from 1852–1860 at 263 Fulton Street, Brooklyn.

Armstrong & Miller

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Recorded on March 6, 1856 in The Wyandot Pioneer newspaper, published in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.  Daguerrean Artist.  Two gentlemen, named Armstrong and Miller, have recently opened a Daguerrean Gallery on Main Street, a few doors south of the Layton House.  We visited their rooms and found all the necessary apparatus and materials for taking good likenesses, together with a fine sky-light which had been gotten up expressly for that purpose.  Call and see them.

No other advertisements, notices or articles have been found to date, to shed light on these two daguerreotypist. They have not been recorded previously in other directories or histories.