Category Archives: Retailer

Louis B. Binnse

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Louis B. Binnse advertised in the New York Daily Tribune (New York, New York) on April 24, 1847.           Daguerreotype Plates.—L. B. Binnse & Co. 83 Williams st. 2d floor, have just received, per late arrival, a fill supply of Daguerreotype Plates, Nos. 20, 40, and 60 of their brand, so favorably known throughout the United States, which they warrant equal in quality to any ever before imported by them.  They offer them at prices considerably reduced from those of last Fall.  Chemicals, warranted to be of the best quality, always for sale. L. B. Binnse & Co. 83 Williams st. 2d floor.

Binnse is listed in Craig’s Daguerreian Registry as being active in 1843 to 1845.

Bigelow Brothers & Kennard

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Bigelow Brothers & Kennard were recorded in the Boston Daily Evening Transcript (Boston, Massachusetts) in an advertisement that ran from November 20, 1849 to February 12, 1850.  Daguerreotype Plates.  A consignment of French Daguerreotype Plates just received and for sale low, at 121 Washington Street.

Bigelow Brothers & Kennard are a new names and were not recorded in A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers, 1839-1900.

Louis Beckers

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Louis Beckers is recorded in an advertisement in the Delaware Gazette (Delhi, New York) on April 7, 1847, in the partnership of Langenheim & Beckers, No. 201 Broadway, New York. They are the sole agency for the sale of Voiglander’s Daguerreotype Instruments and L. Beckers’ Chemicals.

Louis Becker is list in Craig’s Daguerreian Registry as being in Philadelphia but not in New York or in the partnership with the Langenheim Brothers.