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Coffin, Alonzo K.

1851                Address Unknown, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

1851                Address Unknown, Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada.

1851-1854       Address Unknown, New Brunswick, Canada.

1855                28 Hanover Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

1855-1856       365 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.1

Information from Graham Garrett

American itinerant who advertised “Coffin’s Traveling Daguerrian Saloon” in Fredericton and Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada, 1851.  Claimed in August 1852 that the saloon “had been to nearly all towns and villages of New Brunswick.”  Sold his saloon to John P. Curran (q.v.) In 1854.  Opened gallery in Boston 1855.

1856.  History of Boston, From 1630 to 1856 (Boston, Massachusetts) p. 47.

Drew & Coffin, Photograph Publishers, Office No. 270 Washington Street, 3d Door so. Of Avon Place.  George H. Drew.  Rooms No. 365 Washington Street, 3d Door No. Of Adams House.  A. K. Coffin.

Photographs, Plain or Colored.  Daguerreotypes on Plate or Glass, taken in the best manner.  Particular attention given to copying Photographs, Daguerreotypes, Engravings, and Paintings.


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