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Macfarlane, Miss Margaret M.

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, , ,

N. D.                           365 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

1857                            Address Unknown, Camden, Maine.

1858-1859                   268 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

1859                            Address Unknown, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

N.D.  9th plate advertising card in the Bostonian Society collection

Miss. M. MacFarlane has taken the Ambrotype Rooms at 365 Washington St., Boston, (Melodeon Building).  Miss M has long been an operator in these rooms.

1857 July 16.  Rockland Gazette.  (Rockland, Maine.)  July 16, 1857, Vol. 12, No. 29, P. 3.

Attention.  A Rare chance is now offered to any one desirous of purchasing Picture Apparatus, as they can have the same by applying to Margaret MacFarlane, the only artist in Camden, with the privilege of the best room in the place for this purpose.  It has always had the reputation of having one of the best places in the State to get a good picture, as it has been occupied for many years by R. MacFarlane one of the very first and best operators in the country, for further particulars, please address immediately either by letter or in person.  Margaret MacFarlane, Camden, Maine.

Advertisement ran from July 16 to August 6, 1857.

N.D.  9th plate advertising card in the back of an ambrotype in private collection

Miss. M. MacFarlane Operator at the Ambrotype Rooms, 268 Washington St., Boston.  (Up Only One Flight .)

Pictures taken in all weather; and all warranted.  Prices from 25 Cents to $20.

Likenesses set in Lockets, Pins, and Fancy Cases.  Copying neatly and carefully executed.  Sick & Deceased Persons taken at their residence.

Miss MacFarlane has long been an operator in these rooms.

1858 May 8.  The Boston Herald.  (Boston. Massachusetts.)  May 8, 1858, No. 10, 847, P. 2.

To You, Ladies.  Mis MacFarlane is happy to inform the public and her friends that she has taken the Melodeon Ambrotype Rooms, 365 Washington street, where she has long been the operator and artist.  Those wishing good pictures at low prices are invited to call and be waited on entirely by ladies.  Patronize the Ladies Ambrotype Saloon!

Advertisement ran from May 8 to 11, 1858.

1858 November 20.  Goward’s Real Estate Register.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 20, 1858, Vol. V, No. 44. P. 3.

Miss M. Macfarlane, Has taken the Ambrotype Rooms, 268 Washington St., Boston.  Up only one flight.

Pictures taken in all weather; and all over 12½ cents, warranted.  Prices from 12½ cents to $20.  Likenesses set in Lockets, Pins, and Fancy Cases.  Copying neatly and carefully executed.  Sick and Deceased Persons taken at their residences.

Advertisement ran from November 20 to May 7, 1859.  

1858 November 30.  Boston Daily Traveler.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 30, 1858, Vol. III, No. 26. P. 3.

Ambrotype Gallery, Up One Flight Of Stairs.  Miss M. Macfarlane would announce to the public that she has taken rooms at No. 268 Washington street, for taking Portraits, Groups and Pictures in the best style of the art, and having had a long experience as principal operator in the most popular rooms in other cities, she flatters herself that she will receive a continuance of that patronage which she has heretofore enjoyed.

Ladies and gentlemen are invited to call and view specimens of her art.  October 29.

Advertisement was recorded from October 30 to December 3, 1858.

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

Lyon, John L.

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Photographs, , , , , ,

C. 1846           251 Broadway, New York, New York.

1847-1855       55 State Street, Hobron’s Block, Over the Post Office New London, Connecticut.

1860-1861       55 State Street, New London, Connecticut.

1845 August 22.  Morning News.  (New London, Connecticut.)  August 22, 1845, Vol. I, No. 242, P. 3.

Steamboat Hotel.  William Bacon, Proprietor, Bank-street.  Aug 21—…J. L. Lyon…

1846 August 18.  Morning News.  (New London, Connecticut.)  August 18, 1846, Vol. II, No. 238, P. 3.

City Hotel.  Walter Edwards Proprietor, State-street.  Aug. 17—…J. L. Lyon…

1846 September 14.  Morning News.  (New London, Connecticut.)  September 14, 1846, Vol. II, No. 262, P. 3.

Bacon’s Hotel.  William Bacon, Proprietor, Bank-street.  Sept. 12—…J. L. Lyon…

1847 April 17.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 17, 1847, Vol. III, No. 5, Whole No. 109, P. 3.

Removal E. H. Payne would respectfully inform the inhabitants of New London, and its vicinity, that he has removed from the “Exchange” To Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office, where he has recently fitted up a suit of rooms including a Ladies’ Parlor and Exhibition Gallery; and having just imported a German Camera, of the largest size, he is prepared to execute Daguerreotype Likenesses from the smallest size to the Largest Ever Taken In This Country.

In connection with the Gallery we have an operating room which has a large and clear North Light, which is acknowledged by all artists as being superior to any other for taking pictures, and for giving the eye that clearness and life-like expression which has been so much desired to make the Daguerreotype perfect.

Mr. P. would state that he has engaged for the coming season that excellent and successful operator, Mr. J. L. Lyon’s, whose pictures taken during the past winter at the “Plumbe Gallery,” New York, have received the admiration of all.

With these increased facilities and the assurance that we shall use nothing but the best materials, we would say to those in want of Good Likenesses, That Will Not Fade, give us a call and we will use our utmost endeavors to please.

Strangers visiting the city, as well as residents, are respectful;;y invited to call and examine specimens which will be exhibited at all hours with much pleasure.

Children taken in from three to eight seconds in clear weather.

Daguerreotypes, Paintings, Drawings, &c., copied with accuracy.

Advertisement ran from April 17 to May 1, 1847.

1847 April 21.  The People’s Advocate.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 21, 1847, Vol. VII, No. 36, Whole No. 347, P. 3.

Removal E. H. Payne would respectfully inform the inhabitants of New London, and its vicinity, that he has removed from the “Exchange” To Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office, where he has recently fitted up a suit of rooms including a Ladies’ Parlor and Exhibition Gallery; and having just imported a German Camera, of the largest size, he is prepared to execute Daguerreotype Likenesses from the smallest size to the Largest Ever Taken In This Country.

In connection with the Gallery we have an operating room which has a large and clear North Light, which is acknowledged by all artists as being superior to any other for taking pictures, and for giving the eye that clearness and life-like expression which has been so much desired to make the Daguerreotype perfect.

Mr. P. would state that he has engaged for the coming season that excellent and successful operator, Mr. J. L. Lyon’s, whose pictures taken during the past winter at the “Plumbe Gallery,” New York, have received the admiration of all.

With these increased facilities and the assurance that we shall use nothing but the best materials, we would say to those in want of Good Likenesses, That Will Not Fade, give us a call and we will use our utmost endeavors to please.

Strangers visiting the city, as well as residents, are respectful;;y invited to call and examine specimens which will be exhibited at all hours with much pleasure.

Children taken in from three to eight seconds in clear weather.

Daguerreotypes, Paintings, Drawings, &c., copied with accuracy.

Advertisement ran from April 21 to May 5, 1847.

1848 April 8.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 8, 1848, Vol. IV, No. 4, Whole No. 160, P. 2.

“The Press Gang.”  Such is the significant title of a group of Daguerreotype portraits just taken in this city by J. L. Lyon, the eminent artist who has recently succeeded E. H. Payne, Esq., in the Daguerrean Rooms in Hobron’s building over the Post Office

The group alluded to is executed in most admirable style, and though taken before the election is finely illustrative of the well known saying of the Poet,

“Coming events cast their shadows before.”

The picture consists of three editors sitting on a log.  Dolbeare of the Morning News, Scofield, of the Star and Democrat, and Jackson of the Newport News.  The features of all are life-like and characteristic.

There sits Dolbeare on the right, with “spectacles on nose,” looking for all the world as sadly sour, as he undoubtedly felt the day after the election; his whole features robed in unusual dejection, and his attitude speaking at every point—“I can’t help it!”  Then on the left is Jackson, his political friend, from the land of the Algerines; with his head resting upon his hand, in melancholy sympathy with his whig brother on the right; a speaking outline of the inner working of the thoughts; while between them sits Scofield, in an easy, slipshod manner, with his impudently good natured, and brassy countenance peering out and saying plainly as even language could say, “I guess we’ve got you,” with a saucy half smile wreathing his chubby visage, and setting off the picture in a style graphique.

As a specimen of the daguerrean art this picture is highly creditable to the operator; and considering the subject, we think it tells plainly that those who want true pictures, will do well to call on our friend Lyons; as with different subjects there is no doubt that he can do the elegant.

1848 April 8.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 8, 1848, Vol. IV, No. 4, Whole No. 160, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes!  J. L. Lyon Would respectfully inform his friends, and the public generally, that he has taken the Daguerreotype establishment, formerly owned by E. H. Payne, over the Post Office, where he would be happy to receive all who may favor him with a call, either for pictures, or to examine specimens.  He feels confident of giving entire satisfaction to all who may wish pictures, as his information in the art was obtained from one of the first Daguerreotype operators in the United States, and his practice, not only with the former proprietor, but with others, having been the most extensive for the past five years.

Ladies and gentlemen are respectfully invited to call.  Rooms over the Post Office.

Advertisement ran from April 8 to December 16, 1848.

1848 April 13.  Morning News.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 13, 1848, Vol. IV, No. 114, P. 3.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, Horron’s [sic.] Block, Over The Post Office, New London.  Miniatures taken with the modern discoveries and improvements of the Art, neatly set in Lockets, Pins, Rings, Bracelets or Cases.  Copies taken from Daguerreotype Portraits and Paintings at short notice.  Also Daguerreotypes taken of deceased persons.  Perfect satisfaction guaranteed or no charge.

N. B.  Instruction given in the improvements of the Art on the most reasonable terms.

Advertisement was recorded from April 13 to 25, 1848.

1848 April 15.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 15, 1848, Vol. IV, No. 5, Whole No. 161, P. 2.

More Light.—Hobron’s Block in State-st., has long been the centre of light in our city, and every body had supposed it was perfect.—But no.  It was destined to increase.  It has increased.  There has been for a long time—first, and most important, of course, the light of our brilliant Star, beaming like Lucifer before his fall, the brightest of the sons of the morning—the Democrat, the condenser of its rays.  Second, the Post Office, whence the light of constantly inflowing intelligence is issued to all parts of the city, and to all departments of business.  Third, The News and Reading Rooms, under the administration of our friend Irish, whose well known zeal and assiduity are full up to the injunction—”Circulate the documents.”  Fourth, the Daguerrean Gallery, late Mr. Payne’—now under the direction of Mr. Lyon, by whose directing skill, old Sol will make a second-self on silver, of every mother’s son or daughter who will favor him with the opportunity—thus making ‘heaven’s blest light’ the prime agent in dileneation [sic.].  And last, not least, we have the light of Legal science pouring from the same common centre—by the removal of Messrs. Wright & Stone to the building.  Come then, ye mighties who compose the august public—com where the light shineth, and bathe either mind in its pellucid rays! 

1848 April 19.  The Peoples Advocate.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 19, 1848, Vol. VIII, No. 36, Whole No. 400, P. 3.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, Hobron’s Block, Over The Post Office, New London.  Miniatures taken with the modern discoveries and improvements of the Art, neatly set in Lockets, Pins, Rings, Bracelets or Cases.  Copies taken from Daguerreotype Portraits and Paintings at short notice.  Also Daguerreotypes taken of deceased persons.  Perfect satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. 

N. B.  Instruction given in the improvements of the Art on the most reasonable terms.  April 13.

Advertisement was recorded on April 19 & 26.

1848 April 26.  New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 26, 1848, Vol. I, No. 1, P. 4.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, Hobron’s Block, Over The Post Office, New London.  Miniatures taken with the modern discoveries and improvements of the Art, neatly set in Lockets, Pins, Rings, Bracelets or Cases.  Copies taken from Daguerreotype Portraits and Paintings at short notice.  Also Daguerreotypes taken of deceased persons.  Perfect satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. 

N. B.  Instruction given in the improvements of the Art on the most reasonable terms.  April 13.

Advertisement was recorded on April 26 & 27, 1848.

1848 April 28.  The Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 28, 1848, Vol. I, No. 3, P. 3.

Lyon’s Gallery of Daguerreotypes.  Hobron’s Block, Over the Post Office, New-London.  The attention of the public is invited to the miniatures which are daily made at this fashionable establishment.—The superiority of these pictures is the result of care in the arrangements throughout—particularly of the light.  By the use of a clear north light, which is admitted by all artists to be the best, pictures are usually made in from 15 to 20 seconds.  A mild, pleasing, delicate eye is obtained, in stead of a blotch of white, nearly or fully covering the pupil, and boldness of character, beauty of expression, and delicacy of light and shade which cannot be attained by an ordinary light.

Particular attention paid to taking family groups: also portraits of deceased persons at private residences if requested.  Price of pictures $1.50 and upwards, according to size of plate and richness of cases and frames.

Mr. L. would thank his friends and the public for the very liberal patronage he has received, and invite them to call at his rooms over the Post Office.

Advertisement ran from April 28, 1848 to July 29, 1849.

1848 May 3.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 3, 1848, Vol. I, No. 1, P. 3.

Lyon’s Gallery of Daguerreotypes, Hobron’s Block, Over the Post Office, New London.  The attention of the public is invited to the miniatures which are daily made at this fashionable establishment.—The superiority of these pictures is the result of care in the arrangements throughout—particularly of the light.  By the use of a clear north light, which is admitted by all artists to be the best, pictures are usually made in from 15 to 20 seconds.  A mild, pleasing, delicate eye is obtained, instead of a blotch of white, nearly or fully covering the pupil, and boldness of character, beauty of expression, and delicacy of light and shade which cannot be attained by an ordinary light.

Particular attention paid to taking family groups; also portraits of deceased persons at private residences if required.  Price of pictures $1.50 and upwards, according to size of plate and richness of cases and frames.

Mr. L. would thank his friends and the public for the very liberal patronage he has received, and invite them to call at his rooms over the Post Office.

Advertisement ran on May 3 & 24, 1848.

1849 May 10.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 10, 1849, Vol. II, No. 76, P. 2.

Mr. Lyon, whose rooms are in Court-street near the Post Office, has recently added to the attraction of his gallery by a number of daguerreotype impressions of the old Congregational Church, now about to be taken down and replaced by a splendid stone edifice.  These views are taken from various points and present exact likenesses of the ancient building, very finely executed.  A good many of our citizens desirous of possessing such memento of his time honored fabric, have possessed themselves of a copy, and we presume Mr. L. could furnish a few more, if requested to do so within a day or two.  After this week the opportunity will have passed by forever.  Mr. Lyon is a very successful artist in his own particular branch, and is withal a man very worthy of public encouragement.

1849 October 27.  New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  October 27, 1849, Vol. II, No. 152, P. 3.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerrean Miniature Rooms.  Hoban’s Block, over the Post Office, Miniatures taken with the modern discoveries and improvements of the Art, neatly set in Lockets, Pins, Rings, Bracelets or Cases. 

Copies taken from Daguerreotype Portraits and Paintings at short notice.  Daguerreotypes taken of deceased persons.  Perfect Satisfaction Guaranteed or no Charge. 

Advertisement ran from October 27 to December 8, 1849.

1849 October 31.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  October 31, 1849, Vol. II, No. 79, P. 3.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerrean Miniature Rooms.  Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office, Miniatures taken with the modern discoveries and improvements in the Art, neatly set in Lockets, Pins, Rings, Bracelets or Cases.

Copies taken from Daguerreotype Portraits and Paintings, at short notice.

Daguerreotypes taken of deceased persons.

Perfect satisfaction Guarantied or no Charge.

Advertisement ran five times between October 31 to December 5, 1849.

1849 December 10.  New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 10, 1849, Vol. II, No. 172, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes Extraordinary.  J. L. Lyon, Would respectfully give notice to the citizens of New London and vicinity, that he has now completed the refurnishing of his rooms, making them in point of beauty and convenience equal to any in the country.  In consequence of the increasing demand for his superior likenesses, he has made arrangements with Mr. Walker (a very distinguished artist) to assist him for a short time, and he trusts that those who want likenesses will avail themselves of this rare opportunity.

Rooms in Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office.

Advertisement ran from December 10, 1849 to May 29, 1850.

1849 December 12.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 12, 1849, Vol. II, No. 85, P. 2.

The New Daguerreotype Establishment.—We take pleasure in directing attention to the advertisement of Mr. Lyon.  He has so renovated and embellished his rooms, as really to render them quite as attractive as any thing of the kind in the country.  They are certainly less extensive than some of those in Broadway, but they are by no means inferior to the best of them in the taste and liberality bestowed in fitting them up, either in point of beauty or convenience.  Mr. Walker, the gentleman who has recently been employed in the establishment, brings with him a very high reputation for skill and effectiveness in the art, and most undoubtedly deserves it.  The specimens of his efforts which he exhibits, furnish some of the most magnificent daguerreotyping imaginable.  In distinctness and richness of tone as well as truth and fidelity of likeness, we believe his portraits equal to any to be found in the United States.  So at any rate they strike us; but it is hardly worth while for any one to depend on newspaper notices of such works of art.  They must be seen to be appreciated, and we really advise everybody to visit the gallery and look at them—look for instance at Mr. Walker’s portrait of himself, and than say whether they ever saw a more finished or more faithful likeness.  His pictures have all the soft delicacy of the best mezzotints, combined with the spirit and freedom of the higher order of engravings.—but we simply designed a mere reference to the advertisement, and have already said more than we meant to do.

1849 December 12.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 12, 1849, Vol. II, No. 85, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes Extraordinary.  J. L. Lyon, Would respectfully give notice to the citizens of New London and vicinity, that he has now completed the refurnishing of his rooms, making them in point of beauty and convenience equal to any in the country.  In consequence of the increasing demand for his superior likenesses, he has made arrangements with Mr. Walker (a very distinguished artist) to assist him for a short time, and he trusts that those who want likenesses will avail themselves of this rare opportunity.

Rooms in Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office.

Advertisement was recorded nineteen times between December 10, 1849 to June 5, 1850.

1850 May 8.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 8, 1850. Vol. II, N0. 106, P. 3.

Copartnership Notice.  The undersigned have this day formed a copartnership, under the name and firm of Lyon & Rogers, and will continue the Daguerreotype business at the old stand, in Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office.  J. L. Lyon, Geo. H. Rogers.  April 30, 1850.

1850 May 11.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 11, 1850, Vol. VI, No. 9, Whole No. 269, P. 3.

Copartnership Notice.  The undersigned have this day formed a copartnership, under the name and firm of Lyon & Rogers, and will continue the Daguerreotype business at the old stand, in Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office.  J. L. Lyon, Geo. H. Rogers.  April 30, 1850.

Advertisement was recorded on May 11 & 18, 1850

1850 May 13.  Daily Morning Star.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 13, 1850, New Series-Vol. IV, No. 254, P. 2.

Call at Messrs. Lyon & Rogers, Daguerreotype Rooms, In Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office and examine the finest Daguerreotypes and most elegant Rooms for Daguerreotyping in the State.  New London, May 13, 1850.

Advertisement ran thirty six times between May 13 to June 29, 1850.

1850 May 16.  Daily Morning Star.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 16, 1850, New Series-Vol. IV, No. 258, P. 3.

Copartnership Notice.  The undersigned have this day formed a copartnership, under the name and firm of Lyon & Rogers, and will continue the Daguerreotype business at the old stand, in Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office.  J. L. Lyon, Geo. H. Rogers.  April 30, 1850.

Advertisement was recorded on May 16 to 31, 1850.

1850 May 18.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 18, 1850, Vol. VI, No. 10, Whole No. 270, P. 3.

Call at Messrs. Lyon & Rogers, Daguerreotype Rooms, In Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office and examine the finest Daguerreotypes and most elegant Rooms for Daguerreotyping in the State.  New London, May 13, 1850.

Advertisement ran thirty six times between May 18. 1850 to July 19, 1851.

1850 May 29.  New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 29, 1850, Vol. III, No. 29, P. 3.

Call at Messrs. Lyon & Rogers, Daguerreotype Rooms, In Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office and examine the finest Daguerreotypes and most elegant Rooms for Daguerreotyping in the State.  New London, May 10, 1850.

1850 September 18.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  September 18, 1850. Vol. III, N0. 125, P. 3.

Call at Messrs. Lyon & Rogers, Daguerreotype Rooms, In Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office and examine the finest Daguerreotypes and most elegant Rooms for Daguerreotyping in the State.  New London, May 10, 1850.

Advertisement was recorded seven times between September 18 to November 20, 1850.

1850 November 30.  New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  November 30, 1850, Vol. III, No. 185, P. 2.

Lyon & Rogers, Daguerrean Gallery, No. 55 State Street, New London, Conn.  Nov. 30.

1850 December 4.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 4, 1850. Vol. III, N0. 136, P. 2.

Daguerreotype Rooms.—Messrs Lyon and Rogers, 55 State street have added new attractions to their finely fitted rooms, and are constantly rendering them more desirable to their Numerous visitors.  Mr. L. has just returned from a protracted visit to New York in which city he has another establishment, and in which he certainly has managed to perfect himself in the beautiful art.  The portrait of Miss Cushman the great actress is one of the finest daguerreotype likenesses we have seen, not only in fidelity of resemblance but in beauty of execution.  It was we believe by special favor that Mr. Lyon obtained the sitting from Miss C. and he ought to consider himself fortunate in having done so, for he has produced a work of art that fully establishes his standing among the most eminent of his profession.  If anything that we have said should induce more of our citizens to visit these rooms than would have otherwise gone, we shall be gratified that it has been said, for Messrs. L. & R. are not only fine artists but they are very deserving young men.

1850 December 4.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 4, 1850. Vol. III, N0. 136, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes.  J. L. Lyon, having returned from New York, will now give his personal attention to the taking of Daguerreotypes in the same superior style hitherto done by him, and at the most reasonable prices. 

Call at Lyon & Rogers’ Rooms, No. 55 State st. Hobron Block.

Advertisement ran twice on December 4, 1850 & January 1, 1851.

1850 December 7.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 7, 1850, Vol. VI, No. 39, Whole No. 299, P. 2.

Lyon & Rogers, Daguerrean Gallery, No. 55 State St., New London, Ct.

Advertisement ran from December 7, 1850 to May 31, 1851.

1850 December 7.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 7, 1850, Vol. VI, No. 40, Whole No. 300, P. 3.

Charlott Cushman.  Lyon & Rogers, have added to their beautiful collection of Daguerreotypes, a splendid likeness of Charlott Cushman, taken from life.

Call at Lyon & Rogers Rooms, No 55 State Street, Hobron’s Block.

Advertisement ran from December 7, 1850 to January 25, 1851.

1850 December 18.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 18, 1850. Vol. III, N0. 138, P. 3.

Lyon & Rogers, Daguerrean Gallery, No. 55 State St., New London, Ct.

Advertisement was recorded five times between December 18, 1850 to February 12, 1851.

1851 January 3.  Daily Morning Star.  (New London, Connecticut.)  January 3, 1851, New Series-Vol. IV, No. 930, P. 1.

Lyon & Rogers, Daguerrean Gallery, No. 55 State St., New London, Ct.

Advertisement was recorded from January 3 to June 4, 1851 & March 1 to 13, 1852.

1851 January 3.  Daily Morning Star.  (New London, Connecticut.)  January 3, 1851, New Series-Vol. IV, No. 930, P. 4.

Charlott Cushman.  Lyon & Rogers, have added to their beautiful collection of Daguerreotypes, a splendid likeness of Charlott Cushman, taken from life.

Call at Lyon & Rogers Rooms, No 55 State Street, Hobron’s Block.

Advertisement was recorded from January 3 to February 1,1851.

1851 April 2.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 2, 1851. Vol. III, N0. 153, P. 4.

Call at Messrs. Lyon & Rogers, Daguerreotype Rooms, In Hobron’s Block, over the Post Office and examine the finest Daguerreotypes and most elegant Rooms for Daguerreotyping in the State.  May 10, 1850.

Advertisement ran on April 2 & 9, 1851.

1851 August.  The Photographic Art-Journal.  (New York, New York.)  August 1851, Vol. 2, No. 2, P. 99-101.

The Daguerrean Art, Its Present State And Future Prospects.  Mentioned in article.

1852 February 26.  The New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  February 26, 1852. Vol. IV, N0. 200, P. 3.

Dissolution.  The Co-partnership heretofore existing under the name and firm of Lyon & Rogers, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

The business will be continued by J. L. Lyon.  Geo. H. Rogers.  J. L. Lyon.

1852 March 15.  Daily Star.  New London, Connecticut.)  March 15, 1852, Vol. V, No. 1295, P. 1.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerrian Gallery, No. 55 State Street—New London.

Advertisement ran from March 15, 1852 to May 9, 1855.

1852 May 24.  The New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 24, 1852, Vol. V, No. 23, P. 1.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerrean Gallery, 55 State -street, New London.  Nov. 30.

1852 July 19.  Daily Star.  New London, Connecticut.)  July 19, 1852, Vol. V, No. 1402, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes.  J. L. Lyon, takes this opportunity to inform the public that he has returned to his old stand over the Post Office, in New London, where he is prepared to receive and accommodate his patrons with the most approved Daguerreotypes. 

Advertisement ran from July 19 to August 16, 1852.

1852 July 20.  The New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  July 20, 1852, Vol. V, No. 30, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes.  J. L. Lyon, takes this opportunity to inform the public that he has returned to his old stand over the Post Office, in New London, where he is prepared to receive and accommodate his patrons with the most approved Daguerreotypes. 

1852 July 22.  The New London Daily Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  July 22, 1852, Vol. V, No. 14, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes.  J. L. Lyon, takes this opportunity to inform the public that he has returned to his old stand over the Post Office, in New London, where he is prepared to receive and accommodate his patrons with the most approved Daguerreotypes.

Advertisement ran from July 22 to August 5, 1852.

1852 August 12.  The New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  August 12, 1852, Vol. V, No. 17, P. 3.

A Card.—J. L. Lyon takes this opportunity to express his thanks to the ladies and gentlemen of New London and vicinity for the very liberal patronage he has received during a period of five years, and would respectfully solicit a continuance of the same, assuring them there shall be nothing wanting on his part to give satisfaction.  July 27.

Advertisement ran from August 12, 1852 to January 26, 1854

1852 December 2.  The New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  December 2, 1852, Whole No. 240, Vol. V, No. 33, P. 4.

J. L. Lyon, Daguerrean Gallery, 55 State-street, New London.

Advertisement ran from December 2, 1852 to March 26, 1855.

1853 January 18.  Daily Star.  New London, Connecticut.)  January 18, 1853, Vol. V, No. 1554, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes With Colors.  The subscriber, in additional to ten years uninterrupted attention to his business, now begs permission to inform the inhabitants of New London County that during the past Summer he has taken up his residence in New York City, solely for the purpose of acquiring an accurate knowledge of all the modern improvements, both in this Country and Europe, in this most wonderful art—and that he is now at his former place of business, over the Post Office in New London, where he is prepared to execute likenesses of any size, shape and description, Cheaper, Quicker And Better!  Than any other establishment of a similar kind in Connecticut.

He now invites his old friends and patrons, together with all others who may visit the city to give him a call, assuring them that by a recent invention of his own, he can give the same Natural Colors, and life-like appearance to the face that have been Claimed for the celebrated Hillotype pictures.  John L. Lyon.  New London, Ct., Dec. 25, 1852.

Advertisement ran from January 18 to January 11, 1854.

1853 February 1.  Daily Star.  New London, Connecticut.)  February 1, 1853, Vol. V, No. 1566, P. 2.

Lyon’s Daguerreotypes posses rare merit for their truthful, tasteful, and artistic arrangement.  The judicious disposition of light, clearness of shadow, and the grace and elegance of face make them gems of art.

Advertisement ran from February 1 to November 26, 1853.

1853 April 7.  The New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  April 7, 1853, Vol. V, No. 51, P. 4.

Lyon’s Daguerreotypes are taken By a large north light, the best position for a light to prevent abrupt shadows under the eyes, nose and chin, and has a tendency of producing miniatures of such softness and roundness of flesh that they must become at once the favorite style of pictures with all persons of refined and artistic taste.

Advertisement ran from April 7, 1853 to January 26, 1854.

1853 September 13.  Daily Star.  New London, Connecticut.)  September 13, 1853, Vol. VI, No. 1749, P. 2.

Haven & Co., who have it for sale, have placed upon our table an excellent Lithograph of Rev. J. S. Swan.  It is executed by E. C. Kellogg, of Hartford, from a Daguerreotype by J. L. Lyon, of this city.  It is a good likeness. looking exactly like the celebrated original.  It will doubtless meet with an extensive sale.

1853 September 22.  The New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  September 22, 1853, Vol. VI, No. 20, Whole No. 282, P. 1.

Elder Sivan.—Those wishing an exact likeness of the Elder, must call on Haven & Co., Book Sellers, State Street, where they will find him in “Lith. By E. C. Kellogg,” taken from a Daguerreotype by J. L. Lyon, of this city.

1854 February 3.  Daily Star.  New London, Connecticut.)  February 3, 1854, Vol. VI, No. 1865, P. 2.

Twenty-Five Cent Daguerreotypes.  Call at Lyon’s Gallery and procure one, No. 55 State Street.

Advertisement ran from February 3 to 6, 1854.

1855 November 1.  New London Daily Star.  (New London, Connecticut.)  November 1, 1855, Vol. VII, No. 2385, P. 2.

Ambrotypes And Daguerreotypes.  We desire to call the attention of our readers to the new pictures taken on glass by Mr. Kenyon, (successor to J. L. Lyon,) who has rooms directly under this office.  the pictures are exceedingly well taken, life-like and correct.  Mr. Kenyon is a worthy and accommodating young man, and, we are glad to see, has his rooms crowded, and unerring indication that he gives complete satisfaction to his numerous patrons.  He puts his pictures up in cases of all prices.  He continues the Daguerreotype business in addition, as usual. 

1860 March 1.  New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  March 1, 1860. Vol. XII, N0. ?, P. 2

Business Changes and Improvements…

The premises occupied by R. F. Cook, dry goods dealer are soon to extend their borders by an addition of twenty five feet to the rear.  Mr. J. L. Lyon’s daguerrean rooms will also be correspondingly enlarged.

1860 May 3.  The New London Weekly Chronicle.  (New London, Connecticut.)  May 3, 1860, [Vol. XII, Whole No. 625,] P. 3.

Lyon’s Art Gallery!  55 State Street.  The Subscriber would inform the citizens of New London and vicinity, and the Public generally, that his establishment is now open for their reception.  He has recently Enlarged His Rooms and has constructed a large and superior Sky-Light and Side-Light Combined by which the best possible light is obtained.

Having procured new instruments he is now prepared to perfect Photographs, Ambrotypes, &c., in a superior manner, equal to those of any other establishment in the State.

Colored Photographs.  He would inform the public that he has engaged the services of An Experienced Artist from one of the finest establishments in New York, Expressly to Color Photographs! who will devote his entire time to that branch of the business.

Persons in want of a portrait are requested to call and examine specimens, and witness the many facilities he has for taking likenesses, as he is satisfied that no one can surpass his Pictures, either in exactness, finish or beauty.  J. L. Lyon.

Advertisement was recorded on May 3 & 10, 1860.

1860 June 12.  New London Daily Star.  New London, Connecticut.)  June 12, 1860, Vol. XII, No. 5599, P. 2.

Photographic Views.  All Persons wishing Photographic Views of Residences and Grounds, Statuary, Paintings, Machinery, Marine Views, Groups, &c, can have their orders promptly executed in the most Artistic manner, by leaving them at “Lyon’s Art Gallery,”  55 State street, New London.

N. B.—Our Views will be made with a C. C. Harrison’s celebrated View Camera, making an actual Picture of either 6½ by 8½, 8 by 10, 11 by 14, or 14 by 17 inches.   je7.

Advertisement was recorded thirteen times between June 12, 1860 to January 30, 1861.

Lummis & Brother

Ambrotypes, Melainotypes, Photographs, , , ,

1858                82 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware.

1858 August 14.  The Commonwealth.  (Wilmington, Delaware.)  August 14, 1858, Vol. II, No. 17, P. 4.

Life Like Likenesses for 25 Cents At Lummis & Brother’s Ambrotype and Photograph Rooms, No. 82 Market Street, above 3d, Ambrotypes, Melainotypes, Ambrographs, Paperotypes, Lettertypes &c.

Persons wishing a good picture will do well by giving us a call.  Pictures in lockets, breast pins, and finger rings, in the neatest manner possible, and on reasonable terms.  Small children taken in the shortest possible time.  Now is the time to get a good likeness for your self and friends. Pictures for 25 cents and upwards. As good pictures taken in cloudy as clear weather.

Come one, come all, for you had ought’ter,

And get your likeness for a quarter.

Lummis & Bro., No. 82 Market st., Wilmington, Del.  june 19—1y.

Lufkin, Merchant H.

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Photographs, , , , , , , , ,

1853-1854                   82 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts.

1855                            82 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts.[1]

1855-1856                   Canal Block, Lowell, Massachusetts.

1859-1861                   100 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts.1

1864                            112 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Massachusetts.1

Ca 1864-1866             166 Essex Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.1

1866                            166 Essex Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.1

1868                            211 Essex Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.1

1869                            Address Unknown, Lawrence, Massachusetts.1

1871                            421 Essex Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.1

1871                            271 Essex Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.1

1853 October 28.  Vox Populi.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  October 28, 1853, Vol. XIII, No. 50, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes!  The Largest Rooms in the City!!  Two Lights, Two Operating Rooms.  J. Q. Currier, Invites the attention of citizens and strangers to his extensive Daguerrean Establishment, at No. 88 Merrimack street, the largest and best arranged of any in the city. Two distinct and spacious Operating Rooms, together with skilful and practiced operators enable him to furnish his patrons with Pictures in the highest style of art with the latest possible delay.

His large skylight, added the past season, containing 240 square feet of glass, is admirably adapted to the taking of Large Pictures and Groups, and in this branch the proprietor will Challenge Competition!  A share of attention will be devoted to the much admired Crayon Daguerreotypes.

These Pictures have the appearance and effect of very fine Crayon Drawings, and will not fail to merit the approbation of a refined taste.

Colored Daguerreotypes!  A new process of coloring Daguerreotypes has just been introduced, and is used by the subscriber with great success.  A perfectly life like appearance is given to the countenance and expression by this process, unattainable by any other.

Great pains will be taken in the execution of Children’s Portraits!  Pictures Enlarged And Copied.

Mr. Currier is assisted in his business by Mr. M. H. Lufkin, an Artist of taste and experience, and, between the two, he is confident he will be able to merit a large and continued share of the patronage of his friends and the public generally. 

Specimen Pictures May be seen at his rooms, which for [beauty] and delicacy he is willing to have compared with the most favorable specimens of the art.

All, then, therefore, in search of a good Daguerreotype, are invited to call at Currier’s Daguerreotype Rooms, Concert Hall Building, No. 82 Merrimack street, Lowell.

Advertisement ran from October 28 to December 30, 1853.

1853 October 29.  Lowell Daily Journal and Courier.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  October 29, 1853, Vol. XIX, No. 4208, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes!  The Largest Rooms in the City!!  Two Lights, Two Operating Rooms.  J. Q. Currier, Invites the attention of citizens and strangers to his extensive Daguerrean Establishment, at No. 88 Merrimack street, the largest and best arranged of any in the city. Two distinct and spacious Operating Rooms, together with skilful and practiced operators enable him to furnish his patrons with Pictures in the highest style of art with the latest possible delay.

His large skylight, added the past season, containing 240 square feet of glass, is admirably adapted to the taking of Large Pictures and Groups, and in this branch the proprietor will Challenge Competition!  A share of attention will be devoted to the much admired Crayon Daguerreotypes.

These Pictures have the appearance and effect of very fine Crayon Drawings, and will not fail to merit the approbation of a refined taste.

Colored Daguerreotypes!  A new process of coloring Daguerreotypes has just been introduced, and is used by the subscriber with great success.  A perfectly life like appearance is given to the countenance and expression by this process, unattainable by any other.

Great pains will be taken in the execution of Children’s Portraits!  Pictures Enlarged And Copied.

Mr. Currier is assisted in his business by Mr. M. H. Lufkin, an Artist of taste and experience, and, between the two, he is confident he will be able to merit a large and continued share of the patronage of his friends and the public generally. 

Specimen Pictures May be seen at his rooms, which for [beauty] and delicacy he is willing to have compared with the most favorable specimens of the art.

All, then, therefore, in search of a good Daguerreotype, are invited to call at Currier’s Daguerreotype Rooms, Concert Hall Building, No. 82 Merrimack street, Lowell.

1853 December 23.  Vox Populi.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  December 23, 1853, Vol. XIV, No. 6, P. 3.

“Excelsior!”  Daguerreian Gallery The Largest Rooms In The City!  2 Lights & 2 Operating Rooms!  J. Q. Currier, Invites the attention of citizens and strangers to his extensive Daguerreotype Establishment At No. 82 Merrimack Street., The Largest and Best Arranged of Any in Lowell!

Two distinct and spacious operating rooms, together with skillful and practical operators, enable him to furnish his patrons with pictures in the highest style of art with the least possible delay.

His Large Skylight, added the past season, contains 240 square feet of glass, is admirably adapted to the taking of Large Pictures!  And Groups And In This Branch The Proprietor Will Challenge Competition!

A share of attention will be devoted to the much admired Crayon Daguerreotypes!!  The Pictures have the appearance and effect of very fine Crayon Drawings, and cannot fail to merit the approbation of a refined taste.

Colored Daguerreotypes.  A new process of Coloring Daguerreotypes has just been introduced, and is used by the subscriber with great success.  A perfectly life-like appearance is given to the countenance and expression by this process, unattainable by any other.

Great Pains Will Be Taken In The Execution Of Children’s Portraits.

Pictures Enlarged and Copied.

Mr. Currier is assisted in his business by Mr. M. H. Lufkin, An Artist of taste and experience, and between the two he is confident he will be able to merit a large and continued share of the patronage of his friends and the public generally.

Specimen Pictures May be seen at his Rooms, which for beauty and delicacy he is willing to have compared with the most favorable specimens of the art.

Advertisement ran from December 23, 1853 to February 17, 1854.

1854 August 25.  Vox Populi.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  August 25, 1854, Vol. XIV, No. 41, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes.—We would call the attention of our readers to the daguerreian gallery of Wilkins & Lufkin, (successors to J. Q Currier) 82 Merrimack Street.  We have rarely seen pictures so clear and brilliant, and never so well-arranged and graceful positions, or delicacy of coloring.  Their rooms are beautifully furnished, easy of access, and up but one flight of stairs.  A large skylight gives them ample facilities for making any style of picture that their patrons want.

1854 October 13.  Vox Populi.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  October 13, 1854, Vol. XIV, No. 48, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes.  Wilkins & Lufkin, Daguerreian Gallery.  82 Merrimack Street, Up One Flight of Stairs, Is one of the most extensive in this country.  It is fitted up in a superb manner, and accompanied by both side and sky light, with two distinct operating rooms.  The advantages of the above arrangement can be seen at a glance.

Miniatures in clouds, crayon, metallic, background, stereoscopes, and every variety of style taken in this Gallery, that for arrangement of attitudes, delicacy of coloring, are unsurpassed in this city.

Metallic Back-Ground.  This new and beautiful style of finishing the background needs but to be seen to be appreciated.  It consists in applying a substance a substance to the plate after the picture is taken, which gives the background a fine metallic appearance, thereby making the likeness clear and visible in any angle of light, while it rivals in beauty the finest mezzotint engravings.

Persons that have Daguerreotypes or copies of portraits that the outlines are indistinct, or the background dark or mottled, can have the metallic ground applied in a few minutes of time, and at a trifling expense.  Every picture warranted.

Prices as reasonable as those of any other artists in the city.  Please to call and see for yourselves.  Chas. Wilkins.  M. H. Lufkin.

Advertisement ran from October 13 to November 24, 1854.

1855 February 23.  Vox Populi.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  February 23, 1855, Vol. XV, No. 15, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes.—A capital likeness can be procured at the establishment of Messrs. M. H. Lufkin & Co., Canal Block, opposite the American House.  This firm have just completed the remodelling [sic.] of their rooms, and are now prepared to get up pictures in the highest style of the art.

1855 May 18.  Vox Populi.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  May 18, 1855, Vol. XV, No. 27, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes.—Messrs. Lufkin & Co. Canal Block, Central Street, have completed the improvements in their rooms, and are now prepared to take likenesses equal, if not superior, to any that can be obtained in the city.  Call and see their specimens.

1856 April 28.  Lowell Daily Citizen and News.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  April 28, 1856, Vol. VI, No. 1, P. 3.

Crayon Drawing.  Portraits and Landscape Drawing taught evenings, by M. H. Lufkin, at his Daguerreian Rooms, Canal Block, opposite the American House.  Each pupil taught separately.  Call and examine specimens.

Advertisement was recorded from April 28 to May 17, 1856.

1862 May 3.  The Lowell Daily Courier.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  May 3, 1862, Vol. XXVII, No. 6723, P. 2.

Gone To Lawrence.  Mr. M. H. Lufkin, who is known to many of our citizens as a superior ambrotype and photograph artist, has taken rooms in Lawrence for the prosecution of the art in which he has for years stood in the first rank, in this vicinity.  Mr. Lufkin has for a number of years been operating for Mr. G. K. Warren, who has long done the best class of work in Lowell; and we speak what probably no one will deny, when we say that he has had no superior as a skillful, tasty, finished operator.  Our Lawrence friends may be sure that Mr. Lufkin is worthy of their patronage, and we trust he will receive it,

1862 October 6.  Lowell Daily Citizen and News.  (Lowell, Massachusetts.)  October 6, 1862, Vol. XII, No. 1973, P. 3.

Born. In this city, Oct 4th, a son to Mr. M. H. Lufkin.

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

Lowden, Benjamin F.

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, , , , , ,

1855                94½ Union Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

1856                94½ Union Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts.[1]

1856                Address Unknown, New Bedford, Massachusetts.1

1860                Address Unknown, Fall River, Massachusetts.2

1860                Address Unknown, Barnstable/Hyannis, Massachusetts.1

1855 May 30.  The Daily Evening Standard.  (New Bedford, Massachusetts.)  May 30, 1855, Vol. VI, No. 89, P. 2.

New Daguerrian Rooms.  The subscriber respectfully begs leave to inform the inhabitants of New Bedford, that he has opened a Daguerrian Room, at No. 94½ Union st., over E. S. Cannon & Co’s. Hat Store.  Having had several years’ practice in the above art, he feels confident that pictures made by him cannot be surpassed in elegance of style or finish, by any operator in this city.  Particular attention paid to taking correct likenesses of children; also, to copying daguerreotype, paintings or engravings.  The public are invited to call and examine specimens. 

P. S. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed.  B. F. Lowden.  ap16.

1857 August 7.  The New Bedford Mercury.  (New Bedford, Massachusetts.)  August 7, 1857, Vol. LI, No. 1, P. 1.

The Daguerreotype Art.—The public are not generally aware of the amount of skill, and judgement, required to produce a good picture in this comparatively new and valuable department of the fine arts.  A correct likeness of a near and dear friend, is one of the most valuable of possessions; and on the other hand, an untrue picture is exceedingly repulsive.  We wish the correct lineaments of our friend’s face, and nothing more or less.  To ensure this [ a ] thorough knowledge, and long practice in the art is required.

Great improvement has been made in this art since its discovery, and it has now arrived to a degree of perfection, which its most sanguine admires little expected a few years ago.

Among the enterprising young men who adopted this new and tasteful pursuit, Mr. Chs. E. Hawes, who has been for sixteen years engaged in it in New Bedford, was one of the earliest.  From a long intimacy with the art, Mr. Hawes has become one of the most skillful and successful artists in this country; in fact, we know of no one more so.  His likenesses in Ambrotype are the most elegant and artistic of any we have seen—they stand out like medallions, and the likeness has a most impressive and life like effect.  No artist, so far as the writer of this notice is aware, has paid so much attention to the light and shade of his pictures—so that the right complexion of the person shall be represented, and a soft and agreeable tone given to the likeness.

Many people suppose that any person can take a good likeness.  This is by no means the case.  Great care and skill are required, not only in the taking the likeness, but in the chemical operation thereafter, to develop the picture.  The greatest care, attention, and skill, and herein imperatively necessary.

In all these most important requisions (sic.) Mr. Hawes has for many years shown himself highly qualified.  We do not hesitate to say, that his pictures will bear a favorable comparison with those of the best artist in this or any other land.

Mr. Hawes is a native of Framingham, Mass., and with true New England sagacity, became one of the earliest to interest himself in his art.  Himself and a brother, both farmers, and mechanics, started with a machine of their own construction at West Cambridge—thence our fellow townsman went to Northampton, Greenfield, and other places having obtained from every reliable source, all the information that could be afforded in Boston and New York, by the advocates of Mons. Daguerre’s discovery.  In the year 1841, Mr. Hawes came to New Bedford, and during his sixteen years experience has devoted himself unremittingly to his profession.  Mr. Hawes attends personally to his business, assisted by Mr. Lowden, one of the most faithful and intelligent operators in the business.

In conclusion we would state as a matter of justice to this excellent artist, as well as the public. That Mr. H. not only was the first to introduce the Daguerreotype into New Bedford, but also that elegant and improved style of the art, the Ambrotype.  In this department of his business he took the First Prize at the Bristol Co. Fair two years since.

1857 May 19.  Barnstable Patriot.  (Barnstable, Massachusetts.)  May 19, 1857, Vol. XXVII, No. 48, P. 3.

Marriages.  In Falmouth, 10th inst., by Rev. Mr. Hooker, Mr. Benjamin F. Lowden, of New Bedford, to Miss Eunice E. Bourne, of Falmouth.

1858 June 8.  Barnstable Patriot.  (Barnstable, Massachusetts.)  June 8, 1848, Vol. XXVIII, No. 51, P. 2.

A Large Eel.—An Eel was caught in “Tim Nye’s pond” in Falmouth, on Wednesday, 26th, by Benjamin F. Lowden of the following dimensions: 3½ feet in length, 9 inches in girth, and weighed 9½ pounds.  

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

2  Craig’s Daguerreian Registry

Lovering, Reuben F.

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Photographs, , , , , , , , ,

C.1843-1847   75 Court Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

1845                190 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.                       

1848                257 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

1849                34 Tremont Row, Boston, Massachusetts.2

1850-1851       203 Washington, Boston, Massachusetts.2                                   

1851                247 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.2

1851                34 Tremont Row, Boston, Massachusetts.

1855                Address Unknown, Boston, Massachusetts.

1859                182 Washington Street, San Francisco, California.[3]

1859-1860       111 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California.

1845 July 21.  The Boston Daily Mail.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  July 21, 1845, Vol. V, No. 191, P. 3.

Cannon & Lovering, Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 190 Washington Street, (Opposite The Marlboro Hotel,) Boston.  Miniatures taken with or without coloring at a reasonable price.  Daguerreotype Apparatus constantly on hand.  Instructions in the art carefully given.  Terms moderate.

Advertisement ran from July 21 to August 20, 1845.

1845 July 23.  The Boston Daily Times.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  July 23, 1845, Vol. XVIII, No. 4949, P. 3.

Cannon & Lovering, Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 190 Washington Street, (Opposite The Marlboro Hotel,) Boston.  Miniatures taken with or without coloring at a reasonable price.  Daguerreotype Apparatus constantly on hand.  Instructions in the art carefully given.  Terms moderate.

Advertisement was recorded twice on July 23 & 28, 1845.

1845 July 24.  The Boston Daily Mail.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  July 24, 1845, Vol. V, No. 194, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes.  Cannon and Lovering have removed their rooms to 190 Washington street opposite the Marlboro’ Chapel, where they executed the most perfect miniatures at prices lower than at any other establishment.—Call and examine them.

1846 November 10.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 10, 1846, Vol. , No. 4999, P. 2.

Robbery.  Between 3 and 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a show case belonging to Lovering & Davis daguerreotype artists no. 34 Tremont row, which was hanging in the passage way at the foot of the stairs was pried open by some rogue and $40 worth of lockets were stolen.  The lockets were of Stone & Weaver’s manufacture, Providence.

1846 November 11.  The Boston Daily Mail.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 11, 1846, Vol. VI, No. 289. P. 2.

The Daguerreotype Show Case of Messrs. Lovering and Davis, No. 34 Tremont Row, was broken open on Monday night, and about $40 worth of lockets stolen.

1847 August 6.  The Boston Daily Times.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  August 6, 1847, Vol. XVIII, No. 4961, P. 3.

Cannon & Lovering, Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 190 Washington Street, (Opposite The Marlboro Hotel,) Boston.  Miniatures taken with or without coloring at a reasonable price.  Daguerreotype Apparatus constantly on hand.  Instructions in the art carefully given.  Terms moderate.

1848 September 5.  Boston Daily Times.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 5, Vol. XXV, No. 3884, P. 3.

For Sale—A Daguerreotype Establishment, well located and doing a good business; only a small capital required.  Sufficient reason given for selling.  Inquire of R. F. Lovering, 257 Washington st.

1850 February 9.  Christian Register.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  Febroary 9, 1850, Vol. XXIX, No. 6, P. 4.

Marriages.  In Manchester, 5th inst. by Rev. A. B. Fuller, Mr. Reuben F. Lovering of Boston to Miss Martha Ann Whitle of Deering, N. H.

1851 February 17.  The Boston Daily Bee.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  February 17, 1851, Vol. 18, No. 102, P. 2.

A fire was discovered yesterday morning about 3 o’clock, in the daguerreotype establishment of R. F. Lovering, in the third story of the building 203 Washington, corner of Bromfield street.  The fire burnt quite freely and nearly destroyed Mr. L’s stock—amounting to about $1000.  It is supposed to have been set on fire, as two or three suspicious characters were seen sculking about the neighborhood a short time before the fire broke out.

1851 February 17.  The Boston Daily Mail.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  February 17, 1851, Vol. XI, No. 41. P. 2.

Fires.  At 3 o’clock Sunday morning fire was discovered in the second story of a building No. 203 Washington street, corner of Bromfield street, occupied by R. F. Lovering, daguerreotype artist, whose stock and materials were destroyed and considerable damage done to the building…

1851 February 17.  The Boston Herald.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  February 17, 1851, No. 8625, P. 4.

Fire.  About 3 o’clock yesterday morning, fire broke out in one of the upper rooms over the jewelry store of Mr. Wm. B. Fessenden, corner of Washington and Bromfield streets, occupied as a daguerreotype room by Mr. R. F. Lovering,  The room in which the fire originated was pretty well burnt out, and one or two other rooms were somewhat damaged by the fire.  The stock of Mr. Fessenden suffered considerable damage from water.

1854 November 23.  The Boston Daily Atlas.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  November 23, 1854, Vol. XXIII, No. 124, P. 2.

In the Police Court, John O’Brien and John Sullivan , minors, were arraigned for breaking and entering the house of Reuben F. Lovering, No. 12 Bond st.  Sullivan was sent to the State Reform School, and there having been a previous warrant against O’Brien for leading an idle and dissolute life, he was sent to the House of Reformation for Juvenile offenders. 

1859 July 30.  The Pacific.  (San Francisco, California.)  July 30, 1859, Vol. X, No. 53, P. 3.

A Temple of Art is Hamilton & Lovering’s new Photographic Establishment.  There are Eight rooms all on the second floor (an advantage possessed by no other extensive establishment in the United States), and built expressly for the practice of the Photographic Art in all its branches.  An experience of both Hamilton and Lovering of over sixteen years constant practice enables them to turn out finer work than any other establishment, as they are not compelled, like other establishments, to hire operators, who scarcely know anything about the business.  The First Premium was awarded to us at both the last State and City Fairs.  Hamilton & Lovering, Second story of Lecount’s Gallery, 111 Montgomery street.  jy12.

Advertisement was recorded twice on July 30 & August 5, 1859.

1859 September 20.  Sacramento Daily Union.  (Sacramento, California.)  September 20, 1859, Vol., XVIII, Whole No. 2646, P. 1.

Sixth Annual Fair Of The State Agricultural Society.  Sixth Day…

The Exhibition.  The Picture Gallery…

East Room.  In the northeast corner of this wing of the Pavillion are placed the daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and photographs of D. H. Woods, Sacramento.  They embrace about nineteen specimens, and besides fine portraits, contains excellent landscape views.  The next left hand collection is part of Vance’s (San Francisco and Sacramento) exhibition, consisting chiefly of a series of beautiful views of yo Semite Falls and scenery.  There are thirteen of these views, each remarkably clear and well taken; the excite much admiration…

West Room…

The remainder of the south wall is occupied by the fine display of photographs done in every variety of style, and exhibited by Hamilton & Lovering, San Francisco.  Between some of the pictures, and the splendid show down stairs by Vance, it is hard to choose.  We have not time to specify the particular merits of each collection.  It is sufficient to say that both firms have brought the art of photographing, in taking portraits, to high perfection.  These two exhibits of pictures are among the chief attractions of the Fair. 

1859 October 7.  Sacramento Daily Union.  (Sacramento, California.)  October 7, 1859, Vol., XVIII, Whole No. 2661, P. 1.

Official List Of Premiums Awarded At The Sixth Annual Fair Of The California State Agricultural Society…

Ambrotypes—W. Dickman, Sacramento; special premium, diploma.

Plain Photographs—Hamilton & Lovering, San Francisco; second premium, $5.

Ambrotypes—Hamilton & Lovering, San Francisco; second premium, $5.

Daguerreotypes—Jacob Shew, Sacramento, first premium, plate, $10.

Stereoscopic Pictures—R. H. Vance, San Francisco; special diploma.

Plain Photographs—R. H. Vance, San Francisco ; first premium, plate, $10.

Ambrotypes—R. H. Vance, San Francisco; first premium, plate, $10.

1860 September 24.  Sacramento Daily Union.  (Sacramento, California.)  September 24, 1860, Vol., XX, Whole No. 2962, P. 1.

Seventh Annual Fair Of The State Agricultural Society…

Photographs.—The exhibit of photographs of various styles, ambrotypes and other camera pictures [is] not extensive.  They fill however, the walls of the [ ? ] room.  The largest exhibit, if not the most artistic display, is from Hamilton & Lovering, of San Francisco.  They occupy nearly the whole of the north wall.  The east wall is hung with specimens from W. H. Towne’s photograph gallery, Sacramento.  The south wall is taken up with the photographs of J. Shew, of Sacramento, and there is a large display and variety in the center of the same wall, sent down by A. Liebert, of Nevada.  Next to these, on the same side is the best display of large photographic portraits in the room, from W. Shew, of San Francisco; and, to complete the list Dickman, of this city, covers the east side with some of his highly finished India ink photographs and other specimens.  Few as are the contributions, in proportion to the number of photograph establishments in the State, they present: not only a fine display, but exhibit the very highest specimens of the art in all its styles.

1860 October 23.  The Pacific.  (San Francisco, California.)  October 23, 1860, Vol. XI, No. 123, P. 2.

Four First Premiums at the late State Fair, and the Only First Premium at the Fair of the Mechanics’ Institute, were all awarded to us, over all competitors, for the Best Photographs, plain, re-touched, and life-size.  Also, the First Premium for the best Ambrotypes, at both Fairs. 

Prices low as ordinary pictures at other establishments.  Rooms all on the second floor.

Over seventeen years’ experience of both of us, enables us to excel all our competitors.  Hamilton & Lovering, Lecount’s Building.  111 Montgomery street.

Advertisement ran from October 23 to November 16, 1860.  

1862 June 23.  Sacramento Daily Union.  (Sacramento, California.)  June 23, 1862, Vol., XX, Whole No. 3505, P. 2.

Passengers For The East.—The following named persons leave in the Golden Age to-day for the East:…

R. F. Lovering and wife.

[1] The American Daguerreotype.

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

[3] Pioneer Photographers of the Far West A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865.

Longking, Thomas

Ambrotypes, Daguerreian Stock and Materials, Daguerreotypes, Patent, , , , ,

1856                14 Chatham, New York, New York.

1857                142 Chatham, New York, New York.

1857-1859       190 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York.

1854 January 31.  American Photographic Patents The Daguerreotype & Wet Plate Era 1840-1880.  (Nevada City, California.)  P. 7.

Patent No. 10, 475, Improved apparatus for cleaning and buffing daguerreotype plates.  Thomas Longking, Brooklyn. New York.

1858 February 26.  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  (Brooklyn, New York.)  February 26, 1858, Vol. 17, No. 48, P. 3.

Messrs. I. Stuehler & W. Baabe, both professors of Music, respectfully inform the public that their Academy Of Music, 190 Fulton street, Rooms No. 11 & 12.  Will be open for Singing Classes from the 1st of March, on Monday and Thursday Evenings, from 7½ to 9½ o’clock.  Terms—$5 per Quarter, for Gents; $4 for Ladies; payable in advance.  They also instruct on the Piano and Singing, the French and German languages, privately and in classes, in and out of their residence.  Applications will be received in the forenoon from 8 to 11 o’clock, in case of absence, at Mr. Longkint’s Daguerrean Rooms, at the same place.

Advertisement ran from February 26 to March 23, 1858.

1858 July 19.  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  (Brooklyn, New York.)  July 19, 1858, Vol. 17, No. 169, P. 3.

Superior Ambrotypes And Nielographs, all styles and prices, by Lingking190 Fulton street.

Advertisement ran from July 19 to August 12, 1858.

1858 November 8.  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  (Brooklyn, New York.)  November 8, 1858, Vol. 17, No. 264, P. 3.

Photographs—Of A Superior Style, colored and plain, at cheaper rates than ever before offered to the public can now be obtained at Longking’s Photographic Temple of Art, 190 Fulton street,

Ambrotypes 25 cents to $5 each.

Daguerreotypes, &c., copied and enlarged to Photographs.

N. B.—Crayon Photographs in beautiful style.                                                          n.6.

Advertisement ran from November 6 to December 4, 1858.  

1858 December 24.  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  (Brooklyn, New York.)  December 24, 1858, Vol. 17, No. 304, P. 3.

An ambrotype is a pretty couvenir, that will suit the taste of many, and for perfection in the artistic finish and make up, get your likenesses at—

E. M. Douglas’ 345 Fulton st.

Williamson & Bros., 249 Fulton st.

Longking’s, 190 Fulton st.

1859 January 24.  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  (Brooklyn, New York.)  January 24, 1859, Vol. 18, No. 19, P. 3.

Special Notice—To All Concerned—You are herby informed that you can get a beautiful large size Photograph for only One Dollar, and Duplicates, as many as you please at only 50 cents each, at Longking’s Gallery of Art, 190 Fulton street.  Ambrotypes, including case at 25 cents.

Advertisement ran from January 24 to 27, 1859.

Brooklyn City Directories.  (Brooklyn, New York.)

1852.  Not listed.  Published by-Henry R. & William J. Hearnes.

1853.  salesman, 43 Stanton.  Published by-Henry R. & William J. Hearnes.

1854.  salesman, 43 Stanton.  Published by-Henry R. & William J. Hearnes.

1855.  Not listed. Published by-Henry R. & William J. Hearnes.

1856.  Not listed.  Published by-Henry R. & William J. Hearnes.

1856.  daguerreotype apparatus, 14 Chatham, N. Y., h-198 Bridge.  Published by Hope & Henderson.

1857.  daguerreotypist,  142 Chatham, N. Y., h-198 Bridge.  Published by William H. Smith.

1857.  daguerrean and ambrotype gallery, 190 Fulton, h- 190 Fulton.  Published by Jonathan Lain.

1858.  daguerreotypes, 190 Fulton, h-182 Fulton.  Published by Jonathan Lain.

1859.  Not listed.  Published by Jonathan Lain.

Locke, Amos H.

Ambrotypes, Photographs, , ,

1859-1860       Fletcher’s Block, Near Summit House, Athol, Massachusetts.

1859 October 7.  The Barre Gazette.  (Barre, Massachusetts.)  October 7, 1859, Vol. 26, No. 11, P. 3.

Athol; Photographic Rooms.  The undersigned would respectfully inform the inhabitants of Athol and adjoining towns that they can obtain first class Photographs, Ambrotypes, Sphereotypes and Lettertypes, at prices that cannot fail to suit the most economical, by calling at the Athol Photographic Rooms, Fletcher Block (near Summit House.)  Every picture warranted to give entire satisfaction.

Photographs finished in oil, water colors, or India ink.  Old Daguerreotypes copied in a superior manner.  A. H. Locke, Photographic Artist.

Advertisement ran from October 7 to 21, 1859.

1859 December 16.  The Barre Gazette.  (Barre, Massachusetts.)  December 16 1859, Vol. 26, No. 21, P. 3.

For The Holidays!  Prices Reduced!  Until after the Holidays you can obtain one or more of Locke’s superior Ambrotypes or Sphereotypes in every variety of styles and cases at prices that will astonish you! by calling at the Athol Photographic Rooms, Near Summit House.

Advertisement ran from December 16 to 30, 1859.

1860 March 30.  The Barre Gazette.  (Barre, Massachusetts.)  March 30 1860, Vol. 26, No. 36, P. 3.

The Best Pictures!  Are constantly wanted by the discriminating public, and can be procured at the Athol Photographic Rooms.  The subscriber is confident of pleasing the most fastidious.  Call and examine specimens and judge for yourselves.  Remembering the place.  Fletchers Building, near the Sumit House, Athol Centre.  A. H. Locke, Artist.

Advertisement ran from March 30 to April 13, 1860.

Litch, Albert

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Photographs, Stereotypes, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

1844-1847       96 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

1847                Address Unknown, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

1848-1849       257 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

1849                825, 826 & 27 Foots Block, Springfield, Massachusetts.

1850-1851       23 & 24 Phoenix Building, New Haven, Connecticut.

1851-1852       Exchange Place, Waterbury, Connecticut.

1852                189 & 349 Broadway, New York, New York.

1853                57 Maiden Lane, New York, New York.[3]

1853-1854       Waterbury, Connecticut.2

1854                26 & 27 Foots Block, Springfield, Massachusetts

1854-1855       Main Street, opposite Court Square, Springfield, Massachusetts.

N. D.               Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia.

1855                49 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

1856                49 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts.1

1856-1857       77 Main Street, Richmond, Virginia.

1844 October 2.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  October 2, 1844, Vol. XV, No. 4352, P. 2,

Litch, Whipple & Co. Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, 96 Washington Street, Boston.

Advertisement ran from October 2 to 8, 1844.

1845 January 24.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  January 24, 1845, N. P. 

Litch & Whipple, Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, 96 Washington Street.  Miniatures taken on Plates six times the usual size; also in groups from two to ten on single large plates, either colored or uncolored.

Agents for the sale of Voigtlander’s German Cameras.  Plates, Cases and Chemicals always on hand.  The public are invited to call and examine specimens.

1845 February 11.  Boston Daily Times.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  February 11, 1845, Vol. XVI, No. 4813, P. 2.

Daguerreotype In Boston.  Very Many of our citizens are improving the opportunity, offered by the experienced operators of this beautiful art in the city, to have their features mirrored forth upon the magic plate.  The fame of the inventioned has reached all classes of our citizens, and we are pleased to notice that several of our most distinguished men have concluded to avail themselves of its advantages.  We saw a most faithful representation, the other day, of Judge Hubbard, and we now learn that the remaining three Judges, Shaw, Wilde, and Dewey, have consented to sit for their likenesses.

The portrait of Judge Hubbard was made by Messrs. Litch & Whipple, No. 96 Washington street; and for accuracy of delineation, and for exquisite finish, we have never seen it surpassed.  With out wishing to derogate at all from the merits of other artists, we must say that the productions of these gentlemen, whose industry is only equalled by their decided talent, would be creditable to the most elegant specime3ns of French ingenuity.  As the daguerreotype process is the only faithful transcript of the natural face, we hope to see it more generally in use than it is even now.

1845 March 7.  Barre Patriot.  (Barre, Massachusetts.)  March 7, 1845, Vol. 1, No. 33, P. 3.

Daguerreotype Miniatures.  During our recent visit to the city, we were invited to visit the rooms of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, 96 Washington-street, where we were most highly entertained by an exhibition of the perfection to which this wonderful art has been brought by these young and enterprising artists.  Among the numerous likenesses of many of our distinguished citizens to be seen there are those of the Governor and Lieut. Gov. of the Commonwealth, and upon one plate the four Judges of the Supreme Court—Shaw, Wild, Hubbard, and Dewey—seated upon the bench, and looking so very much like the originals, and so exactly to the life, that we almost felt ourselves in the actual presence of the “Honorable Court.”  The indistinctness, rigidity of features, and death-like appearance, which have heretofore rendered Daguerreotype likenesses objectionable, have been obviated by Messrs. Litch & Whipple, who are enabled by the great improvements they have made in the art to present likenesses which, for distinctness and animation in features, suffer nothing in comparison with the richest and most beautiful engravings, and we advise those of our friends who may wish to leave behind a perfect representation of their good or ugly looks, to call at the rooms of Litch & Whipple, where they will meet with the most gentlemanly treatment and accommodation.

1845 April 12.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  April 12, 1845, Vol. IV, No. 316, Whole No. 1247, P. 3.

Daguerreotype.—Plates!  Plates!!  Plates!!!—To Daguerreotype Artists & Amateurs.—In consequence of repeated complaints from Artists of failures to obtain fine Portraits, from imperfections in the Plates, the subscriber begs leave to inform them that he is manufacturing Plates of a superior quality to any that have been hitherto been used in this country.  These plates have been fairly tried, and tested by several of the most experienced and skillful operators and amateurs in the United States, from whom he has received certificates that they are superior to any Plates they ever before used.  Signed By Paul B. Goddard, M. D.; Joseph E. Parker, and Wm. G. Mason, Amateurs.  Messrs. W. & F Langenheim, Operators, Philad.; Messrs. Litch & Whipple, Operators, Boston.

Agents.—Messrs. W. & F. Langenheim, Exchange, and William G. Mason, 46 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and Messrs. Litch & Whipple, 96 Washington street, Boston.

None genuine unless stamped “E. White, maker, N. Y.” manufactured and sold wholesale and retail by Edward White, 175 Broadway, N. York.

Advertisement ran from April 12 to September 19, 1845.

1845 May 30.  The Age,  (Augusta, Maine.)  May 30, 1845, Vol. XIV, No. 20, P. 2.

Daguerreotype Likenesses.  Happening in Boston we were attracted to the rooms of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, 96 Washington Street and Messrs. L. H. Hale & Co. 109 Washington Street, in each of which we saw some hundred specimens of Daguerreotyping, which show that the art has been curried by them to a very high degree of perfection.  We advise those in want of good likenesses to visit the gentlemanly and scientific proprietors of these two excellent establishments.

1845 May 30.  The Age,  (Augusta, Maine.)  May 30, 1845, Vol. XIV, No. 20, P. 3.

Litch & Whipple, Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, 96 Washington Street—Boston.  Miniatures colored and uncolored, taken in Groups, from Two to Ten, on a single plate.

Probably no establishment in the United States has so excellent an apparatus for Daguerreotyping as theirs.  Their lenses are supposed to be the largest in use for this purpose—and their success in this beautiful art is believed to be unparalleled.  Their rooms are continually thronged with visitors.

Persons passing through the city can be accommodated with miniatures without delay, as perfect likenesses, singly or in groups, can be obtained and finished in a very few moments. 

Advertisement ran from May 30 to July 11, 1845.

1845 May 31.  Receipt in Chris Steele’s Collection.

Bought of Litch & Whipple, 96 Washington Street.

Daguerreotype Portraits Taken During The Day, Equally Well in Cloudy Weather.

The Most approved Daguerreotype Apparatus, Plates, Cases. Chemicals, Polishing Materials, &c. constantly for sale.

1845 June 17.  American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  June 17, 1845, Vol. XII, No. 144, P. 1.

Fires and Incendiaries At Boston.—There were seven or eight attempts made to fire the city of Boston on Friday night, but all fortunately discovered in time to be easily extinguished.  The Evening Gazette office, and Chancy Place church, were among the buildings fired.  They sustained but little damage, however.  On Saturday morning, a spirit gas lamp exploded in a room occupied by Litch & Whipple, as a Daguerreotype gallery, in a building on Washington St. The whole establishment was much injured by fire and water.  The lower floor was occupied by Dearing & Greenleaf, and J. Collamore, whose stock were slightly damaged by removal and water—insured.  The second story was occupied by Geo. N. Nickels, tailor, insured for $2000; G. W. Wilson, tailor, insured $4000; and W. Dudley, barber, insured $400.  Their stock were removed with little damage.  The third story was occupied by Litch & Whipple, daguerreotype rooms, insured $1000; City Missionary Rooms, no insurance; and F. A. Huddleston, Barometer and Thermometer manufacturer, no insurance, whose respective stock were slightly damaged by removal.

1845 June 20.  The Norfolk Democrat.  (Dedham, Massachusetts.)  June 20, 1845, Vol. VII, No. 21, Whole No. 333, P. 2.

The bursting of a spirit gas lamp set fire to the daguerreotype room 96 Washington street, on Saturday morning, but it was not allowed to do much damage, though many of the goods of the various occupants of the building were removed.

1845 June 21.  Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette.  (Hallowell, Maine.)  June 21, 1845, Vol. VI, No. 30, P. 2.

…On Saturday morning, at 9 o’clock, a fire broke out in the upper part of the granite building, No. 96 Washington street, owned by David Sears.  The fire was found to be in the Daguerreotype Gallery of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, and was caused by the bursting of a spirit gas lamp, used in their preparation room.  The upper part of the building was considerably damaged by fire, and the lower part by water.  It was insured.  Messrs. Litch & Whipple were insured for $1000, which more than covers their loss.—The third floor was also occupied for the City Missionary Rooms, and by F. A. Huddleston, Barometer and Thermometer manufacturer, whose respective stock were slightly damaged by removal.

1845 June 25.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  June 25, 1845, N. P.

National Fair.  Gold Medal!  Professor Plumbe!!  (From the Philadelphia Ledger.) 

With all due reference to a Professor even of Daguerreotype we beg to protest against the assertion in last Saturday’s Ledger, that Professor Plumbe was presented with a gold medal by the Committee of the National Fair at Washington, and the following letter makes me a stronger protestant than ever:

Committee Room, National Fair, Washington, 15 June 1846.

Dear Sirs:  You are right in saying there is some mistake as to Mr Plumbe’s having a medal from the Committee of the National fair, for his pictures exhibited.  There is no ground, for saying that, as no medal was granted at all, &c, &c.  I am very respectfully, your obedient

To Mr. J. E. Mayall,               D. A. Hall, Sec’y.

As we published yesterday a communication, announcing a Gold Medal to Mr Plumbe, in justice to other artist we insert the above at the request of Messrs. Litch & Whipple and Southworth & Hawes, of Boston

1845 December 23.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  December 23, 1845, Vol. XVI, No. 4717, P. 2.

Daguerreotype Gallery.  There is no science that has made more rapid strides, within the past twelve months, than the art of Daguerreotyping.  There are several artist in our city who have produced works highly creditable to the art and which have reflected high credit upon themselves for the untiring industry bestowed in overcoming difficulties.  But none have made so rapid a progress as Messrs. Litch & Whipple, whose Gallery is established at no. 96 Washington street.  They have just fitted up a new and spacious gallery, which is most admirably lighted, affording great facilities to the progress of their art.  These gentlemen have just completed a [monster] instrument which has enabled them to take portraits 12 x 14 inches in dimensions, which is the size much used by French artists for Cabinet pictures.  This instrument has been  constructed

under their own supervision.  The achromatic lenses were processed in Europe at a very heavy cost, and are the most perfect of their kind, upwards of four inches in diameter, and are capable of taking in over two feet of surfaced extent.  Everything which science could require, or ingenuity suggest, has been applied in the construction of this monster machine.

We had the pleasure yesterday of inspecting some of the large pictures recently taken by this instrument, and can truly say we have never seen anything in this art to equal them.  Enlarging the size adds greatly to the effect of the pictures.  The perfection of the lenses brings the figure boldly out, and the gradations of light and shade perfect to nature.  The work is soft and the tone mellow, resembling very closely the finest mezzotint Cabinet pictures can be copied by this instrument in a superior manner.  In grouping tableaux, it is very important, as twelve or fifteen figures can be taken on a single plate thus presenting if desired, a whole family in a single picture.  We would advise our readers to make a call at their gallery and witness for themselves works in this interesting art which reflects so much credit on the perseverance, industry and skill of Messrs. Litch & Whipple.

1845 December 23.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  January 2, 1845, Vol. XVI, No. 4717, P. 3.

Cabinet Pictures in Daguerreotype.  Messrs. Litch & Whipple announce to their friends and the public that they have at a heavy expense succeeded in constructing a large instrument, by which they are now enabled to take Cabinet Pictures and Portraits, the size of 12 by 14 inches, in a perfect manner.  The large lenses were obtained in Europe at a great expense and the most perfect ever made for this purpose.  Miniatures taken at any time, with or without color, single or in groups, in their usual perfect manner from three to twelve dollars on a single plate, and cabinet pictures and large portraits from $25 to $30.  Chemicals of the first quality always for sale.  Their rooms have recently been refitted, and an additional gallery completed which is one of the finest in the city for this purpose.  Our friends and the public are respectfully invited to call at 96 Washington Street, and examine a few of the first specimens taken by our large instrument.

Advertisement ran from December 23, 1845 to June 24, 1846.

1845 December 30.  Portland Weekly Advertiser.  (Portland, Maine.)  December 30, 1845, Vol. XLVII, No. 52, P. 2.

Daguerreotype.  The Boston Transcript gives an interesting account of improved instruments in this art:

“Messrs. Litch & Whipple, No. 96 Washington street, have just completed a monster instrument which has enabled them to take portraits 12 by 14 inches in dimension, which is the size much used by French artists for cabinet pictures.  This instrument has been constructed under their own supervision.  The achromatic lenses were procured in Europe at a very heavy cost, and are the most perfect of their kind, upwards of four inches in diameter, and are capable of taking in over two feet of surfaced extent.  Every thing which science could require, or ingenuity suggest, has been applied in the construction of this monster machine.

We had the pleasure yesterday of inspecting some of the large pictures recently taken by this instrument, and can truly say we have never seen any thing in this art to equal them.  Enlarging the size adds greatly to the effect of the picture.  The perfection of the lenses brings the figure boldly out, and the gradations of light and shade perfect to nature.  In grouping tableaux, it is very important, as twelve or fifteen figures can be taken on a single plate thus presenting, if desired, a whole family in a single picture.

1846.  Illustration from a Music Sheet in Gary Ewer’s Collection.

Melodies of the Harmoneons Arranged for the Piano Forte.  Published by C. Bradlee & Co. 184 Washington St. Boston, Lithograph by William Sharp & Co. From a Daguerreotype by Litch & Whipple.

1846 February 2.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  February 2, 1846,  Vol. XVII, No. 4761, P. 2.

The Daguerreotype.  We noticed a few weeks since, the improvements in the style of photogenic drawings which have been effected by the artists, Litch & Whipple, in Washington Street.  The Likenesses taken with their apparatus and under their direction are totally devoid of the dingy look which it is so common to observe in this style of sketching, and they posses the most perfect: brilliancy and clearness.  We have been much gratified in the examination of a copy taken by these gentlemen, from Ball Hughes’s statue of the illustrious Bowditch, now in the gallery of the Athenæum.  This new achievement well evinces the advancement made in the process of taking these limnings of light, and it gives the most satisfactory “counterfeit presentment” of the good and great departed.

1846 February 17.  Portland Weekly Advertiser.  (Portland, Maine.)  February 17, 1846, Vol. XLVIII, No. 7, P. 2.

Daguerreotype.—A correspondent of the Worcester Spy, speaking of the daguerreotype pictures of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, of Boston, says:—

“Passing down Washington Street the other day, my attention was attracted to a crowd on the side walk, gathered around some objects, which they appeared to be observing with much interest.  On approaching, I found that they were examining a splendid Daguerreotype picture of Leoplid de Meyer, a celebrated German musician, who was a short time since in this city, but is now, I believe in New York.  It was from four to six times as large as the largest Daguerreotype I had ever seen before, being on a plate, as near as I can now judge, of about 12 by 14 or 16 inches.  As a work of art, [is] altogether excelled any thing that I had supposed possible by this process.  There was a softness, a delicacy, and a perfection about it, not only inimitable, but, I cannot but believe, unapproachable, by any other means.  The finest and most delicate mezzotinto engravings of Sartint have the nearest resemblance to it of any thing I have seen.”

1846 April 6.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  April 6, 1846,Vol. XXVII, No. 4814, P. 2.

The Daguerreotype.  At a visit to the rooms of Messrs. Litch & Whipple some time since, we were surprised at the improvements in the Daguerreotype art.  They had just completed some beautiful specimens of Daguerreotypes—Cabinet pictures, the largest that have yet ben taken in this country, or in Europe—which bore more resemblance to fine mezzotinto engravings, than to a common Daguerreotype, but now they have something different from anything of the kind that has been seen heretofore in this city—which is a new coloring process, patented by Langenheim of Philadelphia, from whom they have purchased the right, exclusively, for Boston.  Portraits by this process are rendered opaque, so as to loose their glare, showing the portrait in bold relief, and making it prominently visible in all directions.  Besides this gives the picture the appearance of a highly finished miniature painting.  It is really a great curiosity, and will pay well for a visit to their rooms, 96 Washington Street, where they have a large collection of portraits of eminent men, single, and in groups.

1846 April 6.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  April 6, 1846, Vol. XVII, No. 4814, P. 3.

Daguerreotype Furnishing Establishment.  To Daguerreotype Artists.  Hitherto the greatest difficulty which presented itself to most operators, has been the polishing of the plates.  The subscribers are happy to announce that they have constructed a polishing machine which performs this difficult operation, to the greatest satisfaction, saving time and avoiding all those failures which arise from imperfect polishing of the plates.  The price of these machines is $75, including instructions and polishing powders, and the necessary plate holders.

For Sale—Plates and Chemicals of the first quality.  We assure you that a long practice in the Daguerreotype Art has taught us to select only good articles, and only such will be sent to our customers.  Our terms are cash, and all orders accompanied with remittances, shall be promptly attended to, by addressing, post paid, to Litch & Whipple, 96 Washington St.

Advertisement ran from April 6 to June 23, 1846

1846 April 6.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  April 6, 1846, Vol. XVII, No. 4814, P. 3.

Daguerreotype Patent Issued.  Daguerreotype Artists are informed that the patent for the new coloring process.  (patented by Langenheim.) has been issued, and applications for the Patent Rights for the States of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut, may be addressed to the subscribers, the price of which will be $75, materials and instructions included.  Infringements will be dealt with according to law.  The subscribers are the sole Agents in New England for Voigtlander’s German Instruments.  A new Price Current, embracing all articles used in the Daguerreotype art may also be had by addressing (post paid,)

Litch & Whipple, 96 Washington Street, Boston.

P. S.  Persons interested will please observe that this is the only establishment in Boston where pictures embracing the above Patent can be obtained.  Also groups taken from ten to fifty persons on a single plate.

Advertisement ran from April 6 to June 23, 1846.

1846 April 24.  The Boston Daily Bee.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  April 24, 1846, Vol. 8, No. 151, P. 2.

Photography.—We had no idea of the perfection that this art had arrived too, till the other day we visited the rooms of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, 96 Washington street.  Their colored Daguerreotype miniatures look nearly if not quite as well as a picture on ivory of the first class.  And such a variety of styles, too.  Every conceivable position or attitude—every expression is their represented.  And they have the “counterfeit presentment” of some beautiful ladies in their collection; in gazing on their finely moulded forms and expressive features, one would almost fancy himself in a gallery of angels!  But their Cabinet pictures attract attention more than all the rest.  Groups of whole families, Children, young men and maidens, and newly married couples—all in full length on large plates elegantly framed, forming  most perfect picture, easily to be mistaken for an elaborate engraving.—Photographic Portraits the size of life, hitherto unattempted either in this country or Europe, are taken by Messrs. Litch & Whipple, and in a style resembling the most finished portrait.

1846 April 24.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  April 24, 1846, Vol. XVII, No. 4830, P. 3.

The Climax!  Daguerreotype Pictures The Size Of Life.  Messrs. Litch & Whipple, after much labor and expense, have at length succeeded in taking Photographic Portraits the Size Of Life!  A thing never before done in this country or in Europe.  It is destined to take the place of Crayon Drawings—resembling that style of portraiture to perfection.  The public are most respectfully invited to call at their room, 96 Washington Street, and see for themselves.

Advertisement ran from April 26 to May 23, 1846.  

1846 May 8.  Daily Herald.  (Newburyport, Massachusetts.)  May 8, 1846, Vol. XIV, No. 265, P. 3.

Daguerreotype.  William Snell Would respectfully inform his friends and the public, that he has recently made valuable improvements in the Daguerreotype art, and purchased a large German Camera, the best which can be had in the country, by which larger and more beautiful

impressions can be produced.

Having possessed myself with every new improvement which Messrs. Litch & Whipple (the best artists in Boston,) have, and using the same apparatus and the same materials which they use, and from long experience in the business, I hope to be able to produce as good likenesses as can be taken anywhere.  Groups of from two to six can be well taken.  Also, full length pictures of children.

Instruction given and apparatus furnished.  W.S. acts as agent for Messrs. Litch & Whipple for the sale of German Cameras, or any kind of apparatus used in the art.  Rooms No 3 Pleasant street, up stairs, where a large number of specimens may be seen.

Advertisement ran from May 8 to September

1846 May 30.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  May 30, 1846, Vol. XVII, No. 4861, P. 2.

Truman H. Safford Jr., The Young Vermont Mathematician.  This wonderful child is now in this city, and can be seen by a visit to the City Hotel, at particular hours of the day.  He has long been considered the great wonder of the world.  Heis the son of Thurman H. and Louisa P. Stafford, of Rovalton, Vt. And was born the 6th day of January, A. D. 1836.

It is a singular fact, that while examining two splendid Daguerreotype likenesses taken by the artists, Messrs. Litch & Whipple, and speaking of their merits as perfect specimens of the highest order of art, the boy, with his father accompanied by another gentleman, came into their room, thus giving me an opportunity of comparing the pictures with the original.  Each were correct—a perfect fac simile—so that any one by seeing these may be said to see him.  At the same place may be seen a splendid and perfect lithographic likeness from Edward Bouve, 221 Washington street, painted by B. F. Mason.  Copies of the same may be had at all the principal bookstores in the city; and also the Youth’s Almanac for 1846, calculated by this Infant Mathematician, at nine years of age!  He calculated one for Bradford, Vt., 1845.  He has now one in press for Boston, which we are told will be out soon.  He is also calculating one for New York.  Every person should be in possession of his likeness and his almanac, which are at all the principal bookstores.  His fame is slight, and from his birth he has had a delicate constitution, and it was with difficulty that he was saved from an early grave.  His limbs are small but active, light muscles, dark brown hair, keen and brilliant dark hazel eyes, countenance pale, but peculiarly expressive, which gives him an appearance of the deepest and highest interest.  He is now 10years old, weighs 50 pounds; height four feet one inch.  Temperament mostly of the nervous, with a little sanguine, and a slight tinge of the bilious.  His intellectual faculties are uncommonly developed; and being almost purely of the mental temperament, renders him a child of very active thought.  His father’s head is quite large; but the son’s is about the same, being 23 inches!  We should like to give the examination made on the spot, but have not room.  He performed problems and calculations in the presence of many gentlemen present which were truly astonishing.

1846 June 25.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  June 25, 1846, Vol. XVII, No. 4883, P. 2.

National Fair.  Gold Medal!  Professor Plumbe!!  [From the Philadelphia Ledger.] With all due deference to a Professor even of Daguerreotype we beg to protest against the assertion in last Saturday’s Ledger, that Professor Plumbe was presented with a gold medal by the Committee of the National Fair at Washington, and the following letter makes me a stronger Protestant than ever:

Committee Room, National Fair, Washington, 15th June, 1846.  Dear Sir:  You are right in saying there is some mistake as to Mr. Plumbe’s having a medal from the Committee of the National Fair, for his pictures exhibited.  There is no ground, for saying that, as no medal was granted at all, &c., &c.  I am very respectfully, your very obedient   To Mr. J. E. Mayall, D. A. Hall, Sec’y.

As we published yesterday a communication, announcing a Gold Medal to Mr. Plumbe, in justice to other artists we insert the above at the request of Messrs. Litch & Whipple and Southworth & Hawes, of Boston.

1846 July 13.  Dailey Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  July 13, 1846, Vol. XVII, No. 4897, P. 3

Notice.  The copartnership which has existed between the subscribers, under the firm of Litch & Whipple, is by mutual consent this day dissolved.  All persons indebted to them are requested to make payment Albert Litch, who is authorized to settle the same, and use the name of the firm in liquidation; and all persons to whom they are indebted will call upon him for payment.  A. Litch.  John A. Whipple.  Boston, July 11th, 1846.

Advertisement ran from July 13 to July 18, 1846

1846 July 29.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  July 29, 1846,  Vol. XVII, No. 4911, P. 2.

Accident.  An accident of a painful character occurred yesterday, at the Daguerreotype Establishment of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, Washington Street, by the senior partner of that concern nearly lost his life.

Mr. Litch in arranging some articles in one of the apartments overturned an ounce bottle filled with Bromine, and in an instant his head and face were completely covered with that corrosive poison.  For several seconds he was wholly bewildered from the intensity of the pain and the inhalation of the stifling vapor, but soon recovering a most extraordinary collectedness of mind, he called out loudly as he was able, for some “Hyposulphite of Soda,” a substance which at once neutralized the action of the liquid with which he was covered, and which, fortunately, was at hand.  Dr. Bumstead, a retired Physician, happening to be in the building, promptly tendered valuable aid, and to his watchful care and the remarkable self possession of the unhappy sufferer, may be attributed an escape from a terrible death.  We are happy to state that Mr. L. although much distressed, breathes a little easier this morning.  It is now confidently hoped that his sight, which was thought in imminent danger will be preserved.

1846 July 31.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  July 31, 1846, Vol. VI, No. 97, Whole No. 1652, P. 2.

Accident.  An accident of a painful character occurred yesterday, at the Daguerreotype Establishment of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, Washington Street, by the senior partner of that concern nearly lost his life.  Mr. Litch in arranging some articles in one of the apartments overturned an ounce bottle filled with Bromine, and in an instant his head and face were completely covered with that corrosive poison.  For several seconds he was wholly bewildered from the intensity of the pain and the inhalation of the stifling vapor, but soon recovering a most extraordinary collectedness of mind, he called out loudly as he was able, for some “Hydosulphite of Soda,” a substance which at once neutralized the action of the liquid with which he was covered, and which, fortunately, was at hand.  Dr. Brumstead, a retired physician, happening to be in the building, promptly tendered valuable aid, and to his watchful care and the remarkable self-possession of the unhappy sufferer, may be attributed an escape from a terrible death.  We are happy to state that Mr. L. although much distressed, breathes a little easier this morning.  It is now confidently hoped that his sight, which was thought in imminent danger will be preserved.

[Boston Post.

1846/1847.  Boston City Directory.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  n.p. 

Litch & Whipple, Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, No. 96 Washington Street.  They take the largest Portraits in the United States, The Size Of Life.  Groups from two to fifty on a single plate.

1846 August 1.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  August 1, 1846,  N. P.

Daguerreotype Miniature Portraits Taken At A Sitting Of A Single Second!  The subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public that, in consequence of the great difficulty in preserving the same expression of features in children for many consecutive seconds, he has been induced to procure a powerful apparatus, by which, with the aid of sensitive chemical preparations, he is enabled to produce a perfect Daguerreotype Likeness at a sitting of a single second!

Persons desirous of obtaining a perfect semblance of themselves or children are respectfully invited to call at 96 Washington St. where no pains will be spared to obtain results which may be both pleasing and satisfactory.  Albert Litch, Late Litch & Whipple

Advertisement ran from August 1 to 28, 1846.

1846 August 1.   Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  August 1, 1846, Vol. 3, No. 107, P. 2. 

Painful Accident.—We learn from the Boston Transcript that Mr. Litch, of the firm of Litch & Whipple, met with a serious accident a few days since, occasioned by upsetting an ounce bottle of bromine, a corrosive poison, used in obtaining daguerreotype likenesses.  The effects of the poison were such as to endanger Mr. L.’s life; but by the immediate application of counteracting remedies, it is thought the sufferer may be saved.

1846 August 7.  Barre Patriot.  (Barre, Massachusetts.)  August 7, 1846, Vol. 3, No. 3, P. 3.

Accident.  An accident of a painful character occurred yesterday, at the Daguerreotype Establishment of Messrs. Litch & Whipple, Washington Street, by the senior partner of that concern nearly lost his life.  Mr. Litch in arranging some articles in one of the apartments overturned an ounce bottle filled with Bromine, and in an instant his head and face were completely covered with that corrosive poison.  For several seconds he was wholly bewildered from the intensity of the pain and the inhalation of the stifling vapor, but soon recovering a most extraordinary collectedness of mind, he called out loudly as he was able, for some “Hydosulphite of Soda,” a substance which at once neutralized the action of the liquid with which he was covered, and which, fortunately, was at hand.  Dr. Brumstead, a retired physician, happening to be in the building, promptly tendered valuable aid, and to his watchful care and the remarkable self-possession of the unhappy sufferer, may be attributed an escape from a terrible death.  We are happy to state that Mr. L. although much distressed, breathes a little easier this morning.  It is now confidently hoped that his sight, which was thought in imminent danger will be preserved.

1846 August 29.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  August 29, 1846,  N. P.

Litch’s Daguerreotype Rooms.  The subscriber begs leave to call the attention of the public to specimens of Daguerreotype Miniature Portraits executed by him.  He has recently made some highly successful experiments, by which, with the aid of a superior instrument and sensitive chemicals preparations, the time required in sitting is materially shortened, while the picture retains the same character with those which have received the commendation of the patrons of this establishment.  By the rapidity with which he is enabled to operate, the difficulty that many experience (especially children) in preserving such a fixed position of body and features as will afford a perfect and pleasing picture, is to a great extent obviated.

Ladies and gentlemen impelled either by curiosity or a desire to obtain a perfect semblance of themselves, are respectfully invited to call and view a collection of specimens of the art, at Room 96 Washington St., (up stairs.)  A. Litch, (Late Litch & Whipple.)

Advertisement ran from August 29, 1846 to January 4, 1847.

1846 October 7.  Worcester Daily Spy.  (Worcester, Massachusetts.)  October 7, 1846, Vol. 2, No. 66, P. 4.

Litch’s Daguerreotype Rooms.  The subscriber begs leave to call the attention of the public to specimens of Daguerreotype Miniature Portraits executed by him.  He has recently made some highly successful experiments, by which, with the aid of a superior instrument and sensitive chemicals preparations, the time required in sitting is materially shortened, while the picture retains the same character with those which have received the commendation of the patrons of this establishment.  By the rapidity with which he is enabled to operate, the difficulty that many experience (especially children) in preserving such a fixed position of body and features as will afford a perfect and pleasing picture, is to a great extent obviated.

Ladies and gentlemen impelled either by curiosity or a desire to obtain a perfect semblance of themselves, are respectfully invited to call and view a collection of specimens of the art, at Room 96 Washington St., (up stairs.)  A. Litch, (Late Litch & Whipple.)

Advertisement ran from October 7, 1846 to April 27, 1847.

1846 October 28.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  October 28, 1846, Vol. XVII, No. 4988, P. 2,

A Daguerreotype, which we consider the most perfect we have ever seen, was shown to us yesterday.  It is the family of the Hon William Jackson, of Newton—father, mother, and fourteen children—done by John A. Whipple of the late firm of Litch & Whipple, 113 Washington street.  [Atlas] 

1846/1847.  Boston City Directory.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)   N. P.

Litch & Whipple, Daguerreotype Miniature Rooms, No. 96 Washington Street.  They take the largest Portraits in the United States, The Size Of Life.  Groups from two to fifty on a single plate

1847.  Boston Almanac.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  P. 177.

Litch’s Daguerreotype Rooms 96 Washington st. Boston.

1847 January 8.  The Age.  (Augusta, Maine.)  January 8, 1847, Vol. XVII, No. 1, P. 4.

Litch’s Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 96 Washington-street, Boston.

Advertisement ran from January 8, 1847 to

1847 January 9.  The Daily Chronotype.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  January 9, 1847,  Vol. 1, No. 270, P. 1.

Daguerreotypes.—In these days when every body preserves his or her likeness in a daguerreotype and when every village has its “professor” of the art, it is worth while to know where a good picture can be had.  To make such a picture two or three things are especially necessary on the part of the operator,—a delicate judgement, a skillful hand, and good taste in arranging the position of the sitter.  All these requisites are possessed by Litch; at No. 96 Washington St., whose pictures, as every one knows that has tried him, cannot be surpassed, if they can be equalled.  We have had some experience in daguerreotypes and certainly we never saw more exact, pleasing and legible ones.  But go and try for yourselves and we will agree that you will be satisfied of this in the most conclusive way.

1847 Summer.  Information from Graham Garrett research.

“American daguerreotypist who operated a gallery in Boston under the name of Litch, Whipple & Co. 1844-46.  Spent the summer of 1847 in St. John, New Brunswick, apparently for health reasons after an explosion of gas at his studio in Boston.  Arrived in St. John on April 17, and was associated with the gallery of Vining & Reed, who referred to him as one of the most distinguished artists living.”

1848 December 6.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  December 6, 1848, N. P.

Litch’s Sky-Light Daguerreotype Rooms.  Arranged expressly for taking Family Groups—No. 257 Washington Street, 7 doors north of Winter St.

We have the Best Light in the city, and our extensive facilities enable us to execute likenesses, and especially Family Groups, in a style unsurpassed in the world.  Mr. L. (Formerly of the firm of Litch & Whipple), who has been engaged in the art from its commencement in the United States, attended personally to the operating department.

Perfect satisfaction given, or no charge.

Instruction given in the art, and stock and apparatus furnished.       

Isaac Gale, Jr., Proprietor.  Albert Litch, Agent

Advertisement ran from December 6, 1848 to January 6, 1849.

1849 January 25.  Daily Chronotype.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  January 25, 1849, Vol. 6, No. 115, P. 3.

Litch’s Sky-Light Daguerreotype Rooms.  Arranged expressly for taking Family Groups—No. 257 Washington Street, 7 doors north of Winter St.

We have the Best Light in the city, and our extensive facilities enable us to execute likenesses, and especially Family Groups, in a style unsurpassed in the world.  Mr. L. (Formerly of the firm of Litch & Whipple), who has been engaged in the art from its commencement in the United States, attended personally to the operating department.

Perfect satisfaction given, or no charge.

Instruction given in the art, and stock and apparatus furnished.

Isaac Gale, Jr., Proprietor. Albert Litch, Agent

Advertisement ran from January 25 to March 10, 1849

1849 May 5.  Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  May 5, 1849, Vol. 6, No. 106, P. 2.

Mr. Cooley showed us, the other day, quite the finest specimens of the Daguerreotype art, that we ever saw.  They were taken by his new operator, Mr. Litch, whom he introduces to the public in an advertisement.

1849 May 5.  Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  May 5, 1849, Vol. 6, No. 106, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes, That are Daguerreotypes.  It is an acknowledged fact, that Cooley’s Daguerrian Gallery is a little ahead of all others in this country, and it is so admitted by Artists and the traveling public.  No pains or expense have been spared in fitting-up this establishment, and the arrangement of rooms, sky-light and extensive apparatus cannot be improved.  The sky-light was built expressly for the business after a design by one of the best Architects in the country, and pictures taken under this light cannot be surpassed for the fine and beautiful effect of light and shade, and the life-like expression of the eyes.

O. H. Cooley & Co. Have the honor of announcing to the public, that they have secured the services of Mr. A. Litch, formerly of the firm of Litch & Whipple, Boston, one of the oldest, most experienced, and successful operators in this country, and they are now prepared to give their patrons pictures that cannot be excelled in this place, or any of the larger cities in those qualities that make a good Daguerreotype.  Mr. L. has operated at some of the best establishments in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, and we can commend him to the public for his gentlemanly demeanor as well as for his qualities as a scientific Artist.

O. H. C. & Co. Have obtained in addition to their other apparatus a new instrument expressly for taking Children’s pictures, which requires only a sitting of a few seconds.

They would return thanks for the liberal patronage which has been bestowed upon their establishment, and hope, by unceasing endeavors to please, to merit a continuance of the patronage of a generous public.

Just received, a new lot of Daguerreotype materials, among which we have White’s Scovill’s and the “Star” and Phenix” brands of French Plates, and all other kinds in use.  New and beautiful patterns of Cases, Lockets of all kinds and every variety of Settings, and in fact everything used in the Art can be found at our Sales Room where Prof Atwater will be in attendance.

…N. B.—Mr. Litch being a practical Chemist, would inform those who wish to use his Chemical preparations that they can be obtained at the Sales Room of O. H. C. & CO.    

Advertisement ran from May 5 to July 12, 1849.

1849 August 15.  Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  August 15, 1849, Vol. 6, No. 191, P. 2.

Cooley’s Gallery was visited one day last week by Mr. Collamer, Postmaster General, and an admirable likeness of him was taken by Mr. Litch, which will add to the attractions already presented of Cooley’s large collection of portraits of distinguished men.  It takes Professor Atwater to induce public men to visit Cooley’s magnificent rooms, who, if not known long to the public, his short acquaintance is very pleasing to the ladies and professional men.—Com.

1850-51:   Craig’s Daguerreian Registry.

23 & 24 Phoenix Building, New Haven, Connecticut in partnership with Moulthrop (M.) & Litch.

1850 March 22.  Morning Journal and Courier.  (New Haven, Connecticut.)  March 22, 1850, Vol. V, No. 66, P. 4.

Moulthrop & Litch’s Daguerreotype Rooms!  Nos. 23 & 24 Phoenix Building.  Messrs. Moulthrop & Litch, would Respectfully announce to the public that they are now prepared to execute pictures of single portraits or large Family Groups, in a style unequaled.  Mr. Moulthrop having been engaged in the study of the fine arts twenty years, is sufficient guarantee that he is master of his business.  Mr. Litch, formerly of the firm of Litch & Whipple, of Boston, is too well known to the public as an artist, to need commendation.—Such a combination of talent, with the aid of the most artistic arranged sky light in this country, after the plan of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and the largest and best instruments, we guarantee to those that patronize us as good pictures as can be made in the United States.  A want of artistical skill and experience, and a well managed sky light, being indispensable to success, is perhaps the reason why so many poor pictures are turned off upon the public, at many of the cheap establishments.  March 6, 1850.

Advertisement was recorded three times between March 22 to 27, 1850.

1851 March 29.  Columbian Register.  (New Haven, Connecticut.)  March 29, 1851, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2001, P. 3.

Litch & Graniss, Sky-Light Gallery Daguerreotypes, At Exchange Place, Waterbury.  The subscriber would respectfully inform the public that they have had a Building erected expressly for taking Daguerreotype Pictures,—the only one that we have ever heard of that has been built expressly for this purpose.  We do not wish to claim any thing more than id Due ourselves as operators, but at the same time, it is proper that the public should know that no firm of this kind has the advantages of us in experience in the United States; Mr. Litch having been in business 11 years.  The public are respectfully invited to call and examine specimens.

Advertisement was recorded twenty times between March 29 to March 6, 1852.

1851:   Craig’s Daguerreian Registry.

A salesman at Scovill’s store, New York City.

1851 April 9.  The New York Herald.  (New York, New York.)  April 9, 1851, Whole No. 6743, P. 2.

“Harrison’s Camera.”—The attention of all those who are about purchasing Daguerreotype Instruments, is directed to the following recommendation from one of the oldest operators in the country, and one who has been “tried in the furnace of experience.  C. C. Harrison, No. 293 Broadway.  Waterbury, April 1, 1851.  Dear Sir.  It affords me much pleasure, after giving the instrument I purchased of you last week, a fair trial, and having had eleven years experience as an operator, to be enabled to bear testimony to the superiority of your Camera over all others, not excepting those made by “Voigtlander & Sons,” for the sale of which I was some time agent, at Boston.  Yours, respectfully, Albert Litch, formerly of the firm of Litch & Whipple, Boston, Mass.

1851 July 15.  The Daguerreian Journal, Reprinted in, The Daguerrian Annual 1992, P. 53.

A. Litch was present at the first meeting of the American Heliographic Association later renamed to the American Daguerre Association and appointed to the committee along with S. D. Humphrey, H. E. Insley and J. Gurney to draft a Preamble and Constitution.  At the next meeting Litch was appointed to the Discretionary Committee.

1852 May 27.  Morning Journal and Courier.  (New Haven, Connecticut.)  May 27, 1852, Vol. VII, No. 126, P. 4.

Daguerrean Gallery.  The subscribers having fitted up the Room No. 97 Chapel street, known as Peck’s Old Stand, would respectfully invite the patronage of the public.  The junior member of the firm has, for a number of years past, been connected with the Gallery of Major Moulthrop, Esq. where he was for some time under the instruction of Mr. Litch—undoubtedly the best artist who has ever taken pictures in this city.  We are confident of our ability to please all who are desirous of obtaining well defined, rich-toned pictures; and haop by courteous treatment and a disposition to give ample satisfaction to those who favor us with a sitting, to gain the good wishes of the community.  Art has dipped her pencil in sunbeams to preserve the face of loved ones—so that we may still have something to remind us of our friends when they are far away, or no more among the living.

“There is a reaper, whose name is Death,

And with his sickle keen,

He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,

And the flower that grows between.”

Andrews & Frink.  m4.

1852 November 20.  New York Daily Times.  (New York, New York.)  November 20, 1852, Vol. II, No. 367, P. 1.

Gold Medal.—The First Premium, a Gold Medal, was awarded to J. Gurney, of No. 189 & 349 Broadway, for his superior Daguerreotypes, at the late Fair of the American Institute.  The report of the Premium Committee on these Daguerreotypes reads thus: “ They are the best Daguerreotypes that have been exhibited, and show, by their distinct outline, clearness of light and shadow, rotundity and relief, with artistic arrangement, the perfect state to which the Daguerreian art has arrived in this country.  The stereoscopic pictures are also very fine.”  These specimens, together with a large collection of portraits of distinguished persons, can be seen at his new and magnificent gallery, 349 Broadway.  also a large collection of views of California, embracing all the principal cities, towns, bays, rivers, gold regions, &c., &c., &c.  Admission free.

N. B.—Chemicals of a superior quality, Made by Gurney & Leitch for artist’s use.  For sale by Gurney.

Advertisement ran from November 20 to December 1, 1852.

1852 November 20.  The New York Herald.  (New York, New York.)  November 20, 1852, Whole No. 7324, P. 4.

Gold Medal.—The Highest Premium, a gold medal was awarded to J. Gurney, for his superior daguerreotypes, at the late Fair of the American Institute.  The report of the premium committee on these daguerreotypes thus:—”They are the best specimens that have ever been exhibited, and show by their distinct outline, clearness of light and shadow, rotundity and relief, with artistic arrangement, the perfect state to which the daguerrean art has arrived in this country.  His stereoscopic pictures are also very fine.”  These specimens, together with a large collection of portraits of distinguished persons, can be seen at Gurney’s new and magnificent gallery, 349 Broadway.  Also a large collection of views of California, embracing all the principal cities, towns, bays, rivers, gold regions, &c., &c., &c.  Admission free.  N. B. Chemicals of a superior quality, prepared by Gurney & Leitch, for artists’ use, for sale by Gurney.

Advertisement ran from November 20 to 30, 1852.

1852 November 20.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  November 20, 1852, Vol. XII, No. 3618, P. 4.

Gold Medal.—The first premium, a Gold Medal, was awarded to J. Gurney, of No. 189 & 349 Broadway, for his superior Daguerreotypes, at the late Fair of the American Institute.  The report of the Premium Committee on these Daguerreotypes reads thus: “ They are the best specimens that have ever been exhibited, and show, by their distinct outline, clearness of light and shadow, rotundity and relief, with artistic arrangement, the perfect state to which the daguerreian art has arrived in this country.  The Stereoscopic Pictures are also very fine.”  These specimens, together with a large collection of Portraits of distinguished persons, can be seen at his new and magnificent Gallery, No. 349 Broadway.  Also a large collection of Views of California, embracing all the principal Cities, Towns, Rivers, Bays, Gold Regions, &c. &c.  Admission free.

N. B.—Chemicals of a superior quality, Made by Gurney & Leitch for artist’s use.  For sale by Gurney.

1852 November 23.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  November 23, 1852, Vol. XII, No. 3620, P. 4.

Gold Medal.—The first premium, a Gold Medal, was awarded to J. Gurney, of No. 189 & 349 Broadway, for his superior Daguerreotypes, at the late Fair of the American Institute.  The report of the Premium Committee on these Daguerreotypes reads thus: “They are the best specimens that have ever been exhibited, and show, by their distinct outline, clearness of light and shadow, rotundity and relief, with artistic arrangement, the perfect state to which the daguerreian art has arrived in this country.  The Stereoscopic Pictures are also very fine.”  These specimens, together with a large collection of Portraits of distinguished persons, can be seen at his new and magnificent Gallery, No. 349 Broadway.  Also a large collection of Views of California, embracing all the principal Cities, Towns, Rivers, Bays, Gold Regions, &c. &c.  Admission free.

N. B.—Chemicals of a superior quality, for artists use, prepared by Gurney & Litch.  None genuine without the written signatures of J. Gurney & A. Litch.  For sale by Gurney, 349 Broadway.

Advertisement ran from November 23 to December 4  , 1852.

1852 December 4.  The Evening Post.  (New York, New York,)  December 4, 1852, Vol. LI, P. 2.

Gold Medal.—The First Premium, a gold medal, was awarded to J. Gurney, of No. 189 & 349 Broadway, for his superior Daguerreotypes, at the late Fair of the American Institute.  The report of the Premium Committee on these Daguerreotypes reads thus: “ They are the best specimens that have ever been exhibited, and show, by their distinct outline, clearness of light and shadow, rotundity and relief, with artistic arrangement, the perfect state to which the daguerreian art has arrived in this country.  The Stereoscopic Pictures are also very fine.”  These specimens, together with a large collection of Portraits of distinguished persons, can be seen at his new and magnificent Gallery, No. 349 Broadway.  Also a large collection of Views of California, embracing all the principal Cities, Towns, Rivers, Bays, Gold Regions, &c. &c.  Admission free. 

Chemicals of a superior quality, for artists use, prepared by Gurney & Litch.  None genuine without the written signatures of J. Gurney & A. Litch.  For sale by Gurney, 349 Broadway.

Advertisement ran on December 4 to 31, 1852.

1852 December 4.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  December 4, 1852, Vol. XII, No. 3630, P. 4.

Gold Medal.—The first premium, a Gold Medal, was awarded to J. Gurney, of No. 189 & 349 Broadway, for his superior Daguerreotypes, at the late Fair of the American Institute.  The report of the Premium Committee on these Daguerreotypes reads thus: “ They are the best specimens that have ever been exhibited, and show, by their distinct outline, clearness of light and shadow, rotundity and relief, with artistic arrangement, the perfect state to which the daguerreian art has arrived in this country.  The Stereoscopic Pictures are also very fine.”  These specimens, together with a large collection of Portraits of distinguished persons, can be seen at his new and magnificent Gallery, No. 349 Broadway.  Also a large collection of Views of California, embracing all the principal Cities, Towns, Rivers, Bays, Gold Regions, &c. &c.  Admission free. 

N. B.—Chemicals of a superior quality, for artists use, prepared by Gurney & Litch.  None genuine without the written signatures of J. Gurney & A. Litch.  For sale by Gurney, 349 Broadway.

1852 December 15.  Humphrey’s Daguerreian Journal.  (New York, New York.)  P. 272.

Gurney & Litch are now engaged in the manufactory of chemicals for the Daguerreotype.  Mr. L. was formerly of Boston.

1852 December 16.  The Evening Mirror.  (New York, New York.)  December 16, 1852, Vol. XVII, No. 64, P. 2.

Gold Medal.—The first premium, a Gold Medal, was awarded to J. Gurney, of No. 189 & 349 Broadway, for his superior Daguerreotypes, at the late Fair of the American Institute.  The report of the Premium Committee on these Daguerreotypes reads thus:  “ They are the best Daguerreotypes that have ever been exhibited, and show by their distinct outline, clearness of light and shadow, rotundity and relief, with artistic arrangement, the perfect state to which the Daguerreian art has arrived in this country.  His stereoscopic pictures are also very fine.”  These specimens, together with a large collection of portraits of distinguished persons, can be seen at his new and magnificent Gallery, No. 349 Broadway.  Also a large collection of views of California, embracing all the principal cities, towns, bays, rivers, gold regions, &c. &c.  Admission free.  Chemicals of a superior quality for artist’ use, prepared by Gurney & Litch.  None genuine without the written signature of J. Gurney and A. Litch.  For sale by Gurney, at 349 Broadway.

1853 April 1.  Humphrey’s Daguerreian Journal.  (New York, New York.)  P. 383.

Mr. Litch who until lately has operated for Gurney is about to open a room in connection with Mr. Terry, in one of the English cities, Liverpool or London, the latter gentleman is well known in South America.

1853 July 1.  Humphrey’s Journal.  (New York, New York.)  P. 89.

A. Terry has returned from Europe, and left for his old quarters Lima, Peru.  Mr. Litch who accompanied Mr. T. has thought it best to give it a trial, and is now operating in Scotland.

1853 July 15.  Humphrey’s Journal.  (New York, New York.)  Vol. 5, No. 7, P. 111.

Mr. Litch has returned from Europe.

1853 November 15.  Humphrey’s Journal.  (New York, New York.)  P. 239.

A. Litch, formerly of the firm of Litch & Whipple of Boston, and more recently in the establishment of Scovill Manufacturing Co., has engaged with Holmes, Booth & Hayden’s.  This will be welcome news to the Daguerreotypist, to feel that they can have their orders meet the personal attention of one who’s reputation as an operator, has won for him a position of the first standing in the profession.

1854 February 1.  Humphrey’s Journal.  (New York, New York.)  P. 320.

A. Litch is now making cameras.  We have seen several that, so far as the exterior appears, bid fair to compete with any in market.  This, (the looks) however, is not what the operator wants; it is the lenses that will produce a fine, clear field, with a depth and breadth of focus.  We will refer to Mr. L’s. Camera again, after they have been thoroughly tried.

1854 October 15.  Humphrey’s Journal.  (New York, New York.)  P. 208

A. Litch has left Holmes, Booth & Haydens’, and consequently his name does not, as formerly, appear on the cameras made by the above firm.

1854 November 2.  Springfield Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  November 2, 1854, Vol. 11, No. 259, Whole No. 3253, P. 3.

Cooley’s Hampden Gallery.—We have the pleasure of announcing to the friends and patrons of this Gallery, that we have again engaged the services of Mr. Albert Litch, who is acknowledged to be the most scientific and successful operator in this country.  Since our former engagement Mr. Litch has been engaged in New York, Philadelphia and visited Europe, and obtained all of the most valuable improvements made in the Photographic Art.  Those who wich to obtain the finest specimens of the art ever produced in this city, will not fail to give us a call.  We have on hand and are constantly receiving Lockets, Cases, and every style of setting to suit the tasre of every customer.  O. H. Cooley.

Advertisement ran from November 2 to 20, 1854.

1854 December 11.  Springfield Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  December 11, 1854, Vol. 11, No. 291, Whole No. 3285, P. 3.

50 Cents.—The Sun Beam Shadow that will not fade.  Christmas and New Year’s Presents—Cameo Daguerreotypes, which are invaluable are furnished at Ward & Litch’s, over Bigelow’s Drug Store, Main street, opposite Court Square.

Advertisement ran from December 11, 1854 to January 8, 1855.

1854 December 11.  Springfield Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  December 11, 1854, Vol. 11, No. 291, Whole No. 3285, P. 3.

Ward & Litch’s 50 Cent Sun Beam Daguerreotype Establishment. (Over E. Bigelow & Co.’s Drug Store, up 1 flight of Stairs,) opposite Court Square, Main street.

Stereoscope, Camero Crayon, and Collored [sic.] Pictures.  Warranted to give satisfaction.

Owing to the unprecedented demands for miniatures, and in order to place them within reach of all.  I have taken into Partnership, Mr. Albert Litch, formerly of Boston, more recently from Europe; acknowledged to be one of the best operators in the world.  We do our own work and are always to be found at our Post.  This with our other facilities enable us to make good pictures, colored, with case all complete, at the low price of 50 Cents.  Warranted to be equal, if not better than any other establishment in the country.

We have an apparatus expressly arranged for taking sick or deceased persons when required.  C. Ward.

Advertisement ran from December 11, 1854 to January 8, 1855.

1854 December 11.  Springfield Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  December 11, 1854, Vol. 11, No. 291, Whole No. 3285, P. 3.

The Sun Beam 50 Cent Daguerrean Rooms, oner Bigelow’s Drug Store, Main street.  Daguerreotype miniature, warranted equal to any taken in this country, for 50 Cents.  Ward & Litch.

Advertisement ran from December 11, 1854 to January 2, 1855.

1854 December 11.  Springfield Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  December 11, 1854, Vol. 11, No. 291, Whole No. 3285, P. 3.

Sun Beam 50 Cent Daguerrean Rooms—Stereoscope, Crayon, Cameo, Colored and Plain Daguerreotype—from 50 cents to $25.  Opposite Court Square, up only one flight stairs.  Ward & Litch.

Advertisement ran from December 11, 1854 to January 6 1855.

1854 December 11.  Springfield Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  December 11, 1854, Vol. 11, No. 291, Whole No. 3285, P. 3.

The Holidays.—The Sun Beam Daguerrian Rooms is the place to obtain an invaluable Daguerreotype for the low price of 50 cents.  Opposite Court Square, over Bigelow’s.  Ward & Litch.

Advertisement ran from December 11, 1854 to January 6, 1855.

1855 January 1.  Humphrey’s Journal.  (New York, New York.)  P. 295.

Daguerreotype Movements.  A. Litch is engaged with Mr. Cooley, at Springfield, Mass.

1855 January 8.  Springfield Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  January 8, 1855, Vol. 11, No. 315, Whole No. 3308, P. 3.

Ward & Litch’s 50 Cent Sun Beam Daguerreotype Rooms over E. Bigelow’s drug store, opposite Court Square, Main street.  I have I have taken into partnership Mr. Albert Litch, formerly of the firm of Litch & Whipple of Boston.  Our Stereoscopes, Cameo, Crayon and Colored Pictures are acknowledged to be equal, if not better than can be obtained at any other establishment in the country.  Our rooms are up only one flight of stairs.  Call at the Sun Beam and satisfy yourselves.  C. Ward.

Advertisement ran from January 8 to May 15, 1855.

1855 October 18.  The Puritan Recorder.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  October 18, 1855, Vol. XL, No. 42, P. 3.

Bowdoin & Litch, Artists in Patent Ambrotype And Photographic Pictures, No. 49 Tremont Street, Boston, (Nearly opposite the Museum.)  The Ambrotype originated at this establishment, and is patented in the United States, Great Britain, and France.  The picture is taken on fine plate glass, and permanently secured between two plates of glass; in bold, clear, and distinct,—not reversed,—and will not change in any climate.  Taken life-size and in miniature.

The public are cautioned in purchasing Pictures taken on glass, as Ambrotypes, that do not bear Cutting’s patent stamp; as some worthless imitations are made.  D. W. Bowdoin, Proprietor.  Albert Litch.

Advertisement ran from October 18 to December 6, 1855.

1856:   Boston City Directory.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)

List a Bowdoin & Litch, Ambrotypist at 49 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. 

1856 October 17.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  October 17, 1856, Vol. X, No. 104, P. 2.

Unparalleled.—The subscriber being determined that his Gallery shall retain the reputation it has long enjoyed in producing works of art, he begs to announce to his patrons and the public that he has engaged the valuable services of Mr. Albert Litch, an Artist of merit, formerly one of the managers of the Gurney Gallery, Norfolk, but now just returned from Europe, where he has been traveling for the purpose of collecting late improvements and facilities in the art.  His Photographs are not surpassed in Europe or America.  He is now prepared to furnish the people of Richmond, and its visitors with Photographs, Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes.  We earnestly beg a trial from those who desire a work of art, at prices in the reach of all.  Photographs made on canvass, life size or smaller from old Daguerreotypes, painted in oil colors.  Every satisfaction, or no charge.  Gallery 77 Main street, Richmond, Virginia.  J. H. Whitehurst.  Albert Litch, Manager.                                                        

Advertisement ran from October 17 to 23, 1856.

1856 October 25.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  October 25, 1856, Vol. X, No. 111, P. 2.

Whitehurst’s Gallery of Photographs And Ambrotypes.—The present manager has been engaged in the business 15 years.  His pictures are on exhibition at the Mechanics Fair, and at 77 Main street.  The public are cordially invited to call are judge for themselves.        

Albert Litch, Manager. 

Photographs copied from Daguerreotypes, any size desired.                                               

Advertisement ran from October 25 to 31, 1856.

1856 November 4.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  November 4, 1856, Vol. X, No. 119, P. 2.

Whitehurst’s Gallery of Photographs And Ambrotypes.—The present manager has been engaged in the business 15 years.  His pictures are on exhibition at the Mechanics Fair, and at 77 Main street.  The public are cordially invited to call are judge for themselves.        

Photographs copied from Daguerreotypes, any size desired.   Albert Litch, Manager. 

Advertisement ran from November 4 to December 8, 1856.

1856 November 11.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  November 11, 1856, Vol. X, No. 125, P. 1.

Awards Of The Mechanics’ Institute.  Made November 8, 1856

….Class No. XLIII—Ambrotypes, Photographs, Daguerreotypes and Materials.

Ambrotypes, by Peter E. Gibbs, a silver medal.

Photographs, by J. H. Whitehurst, first class diploma.

Photographs, by D. Bendann, second class diploma.

1856 December 12.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  December 12, 1856, Vol. X, No. 152, P. 2.

Litch’s Premium Photographs.  First Class Diploma 1856.  Whitehurst Gallery, 77 Main street. Advertisement ran from December 12, 1856 to January 12, 1857.

1856 December 12.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  December 12, 1856, Vol. X, No. 152, P. 2.

A Novelty.  One Dollar Ambrotypes.  Cuttings Patent  A. Litch, Whitehurst Gallery, 

Advertisement ran from December 12, 1856 to January 12, 1857.

1857 January 9.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  January 9, 1857, Vol. XI, No. 8, P. 2.

Whitehurst’s Gallery, No. 77 Main Street—Photographs And Ambrotypes.—Determined to establish a reputation for good Pictures, and secure the patronage once extended to this Gallery.  I have made preparation for taking Photographs in a style not surpassed in any city in the Union.  Having operated extensively in Europe, as well as in the largest establishments in this country, I feel that I can give ample satisfaction to the most fastidious taste.  Having engaged the services of an artist, I design introducing Photographs, colored in oil and water colors.—Pictures will be sold at this Gallery, as cheap as they can be produced in any Northern city.  Ambrotypes taken in the finest style, from one dollar up Call and see.  Albert Litch, Manager.                      

Advertisement ran from January 9 to February 10, 1857.

1857 April 4.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  April 4, 1857, Vol. XI, No. 81, P. 2.

Whitehurst’s Gallery.—Litch Photographs Reduced In Price—Determined to adapt my prices to what seem to be a desideratum in Richmond, I have concluded to reduce the prices of my beautiful Photographs, taken on paper, to a standard that I am sure ought to warrant the most extensive sale of any class of pictures ever introduced in this city.  Though but a short time since they have been introduced here, as taken by myself, they have elicited the highest encomiums from the best critics, and pronounced the greatest improvement yet discovered in the art.  Infinitely superior to the old style of Daguerreotype, which must fade in the course of a few years, and not subject to the accidents that may befall Ambrotypes—the fact that they have almost entirely supplanted all other pictures in the first class galleries, both in Europe and America, is warrant enough for my believing they will here also.

I will furnish one of these pictures for $3, or three of them for $6, and so on lower, according to the number taken.  I can furnish the same picture, painted in oil or water colors, a beautiful effect, at very moderate charges.

Ambrotypes taken in the finest style, on accommodating terms.  A. Litch, manager.     

Advertisement ran April 4 & 6, 1857.

1857 May 28.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  May 28, 1857, Vol. XI, No. 128, P. 2.

Four Rooms To Let over Whitehurst’s Gallery, No 77 Main street, very cheap.  Apply to A. Litch, in the Gallery.                                                                                   

1857 October 20.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  October 20, 1857, Vol. XII, No. 95, P. 2.

Genuine Double Glass Ambrotypes for 50 Cents, at the old Whitehurst Gallery, 77 Main street, large size.  Photographs $2.50.  Duplicates $1.00, by Albert Litch.                       

Advertisement ran from October 20 to 26, 1857.

1857 October 22.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  October 22, 1857, Vol. XII, No. 97, P. 2.

Remember the place—the old Whitehurst Gallery—where you can get the genuine Double Glass Ambrotype, large size, for 50 cents, and Photographs for $2.50, by Albert Litch, 77 Main street. 

Advertisement ran from October 22 to 27, 1857.

1857 October 22.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  October 22, 1857, Vol. XII, No. 97, P. 2.

Ambrotypes for 50 cents, large size; Photographs for $2.50, at the Old Whitehurst Gallery, 77 Main street, by Albert Litch.                                                              

Advertisement ran from October 22to 26, 1857.

1857 November 7.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  November 7, 1857, Vol. XII, No. 111, P. 1.

List of Premiums Awarded At The Fair Of The Va. Mechanics’ Institute, November 5th, 1857…Class 26.—Photographs, Daguerreotypes, and Ambrotypes.

Albert Litch, for color photographs, a silver medal.

Tyler & Co., for daguerreotypes, a silver medal.

Sanxay & Chalmers, for ambrotypes, a silver medal.

E. Powers, for ambrotypes and photographs, first class diploma.

1857 December 8.  The Daily Dispatch.  (Richmond, Virginia.)  December 8, 1857, Vol. XII, No. 137, P. 3.

Removal.—Watson & Son have bought out the old Whitehurst Gallery lately occupied by Mr. Leitch, which they will open on Monday December 7, and are now prepared to take Pictures from 25 to 37½ cents with cases; and extra large for 50 cents with case, which are not to be equaled in the city, and which is regularly charged $1.  Medallions, Cameos, Melanotypes, and panotypes, which can be sent in a letter to any part of the world.  His Ambrotypes are warranted not to fade.

Remember the old Whitehurst Gallery, 77 main street, Call and see for yourselves, his specimens, and where Photographs of all the United States Senators can be seen.                       

Advertisement ran from December 8 to 10, 1857.

[1] Directory of Massachusetts Photographers 1839-1900. (1844-1846)

[2] Information from Graham Garrett’s research.

[3] Craig’s Daguerreian Registry.

Lillibridge, Clark H.

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Photographs, , , , , ,

1854                75 Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois.[1]

1855                77 Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.

1856-1860       77 Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.1

1859                117 Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.

1861-1868       109 Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.1

1870-1871       109 Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois.1

1856 February 1.  The Daily Democratic Press.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  February 1, 1856, Vol. IV, No. 105, P. 2 & 3.

Review of the Manufacturers of Chicago for 1855.  In presenting our readers with the fourth Annual Review of the Manufactures of Chicago, we are happy to say , that this important arm of our prosperity continues to keep pace with the general growth of the city and country…

Daguerreotypes, Photographs, Ambrotypes, &c.  The Daguerrean business is not strickly speaking a manufacturing branch of industry, yet as there is in this city a large amount of capital invested in establishments of this kind, we have thought it  but proper to include them.  During the past two years Daguerrean rooms have increased very rapidly; and we are happy to record the fact, that Chicago has some of the best operators in the United States.

A. Hesler, Daguerrean and Photographer, Metropolitan Block, Lasalle street.

This is the largest Daguerrean establishment in the United States.  It consists of 12 large rooms, most appropriately fitted up.  The show rooms are luxuriously furnished.

Mr. Hesler’s Daguerreotype likenesses have taken the premium at the World’s Fair, New York, and at several of the State Fairs throughout the United States.  He was formerly situated at Galena, in this State, and moved to this city in December, 1854.

The following is a statement of his business during 1855.

Capital Investment…………$22,000

Va. Of Pictures, &c.………..$38,000

Material used……….………$18,000

Wages used………………….$6,500

No. of operators employed….10.

Root, Cook & Fassett, Daguerreotypist and Ambrotypist, 131 Lake street.

This establishment was only commenced las September, since which time they have acquired a good reputation as Daguerreans.  Some of their pictures have taken premiums at State Fairs and Industrial exhibitions.

The Following is a statement of their operation from Sept. 1st to Dec. 31st, 1855.

Capital Invested……….$3,000

600 pictures……………$2,000

Raw material used……..$400

H. W. Williams, Daguerrean Artist, 58 West Randolph street.

The amount of business turned out in this establishment during the past year, is as follows:

Capital Invested……$500.

Value of pictures……$1,500.

No. of operators…….2.

Taylor & Lenox, Ambrotypist and Daguerreans, 75 Lake street.

This firm commenced business in September last.  They are the proprietors of the patent right of Cutting’s process of Ambrotyping, for this State and Wisconsin.  The figures during the few months they have been in business, we did not receive.

C. H. Lillibridge, Photographer, 77 Lake st….No report.

C. C. Kelsey, Daguerrean, 96 Lake st………..Blanks not returned.

G. E. Gordan, Daguerrean, 44 Dearborn st…..No returns.

E. G. Stiles, Daguerrean, 139 Lake st…………Blanks not returned.

P. Von Schneidau, Daguerrean, 142 Lake st….Blanks not returned.

1856 October 27.  The Daily Democratic Press.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  October 27, 1856, Vol. V, No. 33, P. 3.

Premiums Awarded at the Mechanics’ Institute Fair…

Class XXIII.

105.  Best ambrotypes C. H. Lillbridge; diploma.

115.  Best plain photographs, Fassett & Cook; diploma.

276.  Best colored photographs and daguerreotypes, A. Hesler; diploma.

295.  Best melainotypes, A. Hesler, diploma.

1856 June 13.  The Daily Democratic Press.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  June 13, 1856, Vol. IV, No. 219, P. 3.

Ambrotypes.—We had much pleasure yesterday in examining some handsome Ambrotypes taken at the gallery of C. H. Lillibridge, No. 77 Lake street,  Mr. L. is an excellent ambrotypist, and devotes his whole attention to that single department.

1856 December 29.  The Daily Democratic Press.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  December 29, 1856, Vol. V, No. 85, P. 3.

Business Notice.  Mrs. Phiz and Mrs. Quiz met of the avenue—”You appear pleased and cheerful to-day Mrs. Phiz.” “That I do, and for the best reasons, Mrs. quiz.”  “What! Has your husband returned?”  “No, and I have received a letter stating he would be absent several weeks.”  “And this news is what pleases you.”  “No, you provoking things—he requested me to send to the Tremont and obtain a package left there by him for me just previous to his departure, which I did, and what do you think it contained, Mrs. Quiz?”  Some nice dress goods, I’ll be bound”  “No, Mrs. Quiz.”  “A nice new bonnet then?”  “No Mrs. Quiz.”  “Ah! A set of superb jewelry?”  No, Mrs. Quiz, something of far more value to me.”  “What in creation can it be, then—do relieve my curiosity, Mrs. Phiz?”  “Certainly; it contains one of the most splendid Ambrotypes I ever saw.”  “Of whom, Mrs. Phiz?”  “Of my husband.”  “Let me see it, Mrs. Phiz?”  “Certainly—here it is.”  La me!  So elegant—and to the life at that—where was it taken?”  “At Lillibridge’s Gallery?”  why it was there that the premium Ambrotypes were taken.”  “The same, Mrs. Quiz; you saw that likeness of little Nelly, did you not?”  “To be sure I did, and what a gem of a jewel it is.”  “Well, he took that also, and I don’t think he was a second in taking it.”  “Is it possible?  Well, the first pleasant morning I shall take Willie and Carrie up there.”  “That is right, Mrs. Quiz; his is the place to go to, and the people are finding it out pretty fast.

1857 October 31.  Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.  (New York, New York.)  October 31, 1857, Vol. IV, No. 100, P. 16.

Illustration of the Greatest Fire That Ever Occurred at Chicago, A Number Of Lives Lost, And Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth Of Property Destroyed.  From A Photograph by C. W. [sic.] Lillibridge.

1858 January 21.  Chicago Daily Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  January 21, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 191, P. 1.

A Good Number.—The last number of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, which can be had at McNally’s, is an interesting one.  Its most prominent illustrations consist of several views of Chicago, in which one of our artists, Lillibridge, on Lake street, has done himself credit as the photographer.  The cuts are accompanied with a short description of the Garden City.

1858 September 15.  Chicago Daily Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  September 15, 1858, Vol. XII, No. 64, P. 1.

Mechanics Institute Exhibition…

In the line of Photographic and Fine Arts generally, the display is one that does honor to our city.

Alschuler & Florence, of No. 142 Lake street, show some fine photographs on paper and canvas, painted in oil.  Among others are life-like portraits of Mayor Haines and Recorder Wilson, which it would be difficult to distinguish from real oil paintings, except as they excel that branch of art as faithful likenesses.  Messrs. Alschuler & Florence are well known to excel in the Photographic Art, and we are glad to here that their success is equal to their merit. 

Hesler, of Metropolitan building, makes the largest display of photographs on exhibition.  They are mostly set in elegant frames, and show to decided advantage.

C. H. Lillibridge also makes a fine display of photographs many of mammoth size, one in particular, some five feet in length.

Battersby, corner of Clark and Madison streets, also makes a handsome display of photographs, most of them miniatures.

There are several other collections of photographs and ambrotypes on exhibition, which we shall notice hereafter.

1858 October 1.  Chicago Daily Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  October 1, 1858, Vol. XII, No. 78, P. 1.

Premium List Of The Mechanics’ Institute Fair For 1858…

Class XIII.

A. Hesler, best oil painting;  silver medal.

A. Hesler, Photographic views of Chicago;  silver medal.

Fassett & Cook, best Photographs in water color;  silver medal.

Alschuler & Florence, best Oil Photographs;  silver medal.

C. H. Lillibridge, largest & best plain Photographs;  silver medal.

Jas Battersby, best Ambrotypes;  silver medal.

1858 October 12.  Chicago Daily Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  October 12, 1858, Vol. XII, No. 87, P. 1.

Superior Photographs.—The studio of Mr. C. H. Lillibridge, No. 77 Lake street, presents some very superior specimens of the Photographic art.  The highest achievement of painting are rivalled by Mr. L.’s large camera.  A life-size portrait is now on exhibition as perfect in every part as ordinary miniatures.  And in addition to portraits there are beautiful landscapes and other natural scenes, also photographed, besides a fine collection of oil paintings.  Mr. L. took a premium for his handiwork at the late Mechanics’ Fair.  His photographic apparatus is the largest in the West.

1858 October 25.  Chicago Daily Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  October 25, 1858, Vol. XII, No. 98, P. 1.

Those Mammoth Photographs at Lillibridge’s Gallery are attracting considerable attention.  One, we noticed, is some 3 ½ by 5 feet and very finely executed.

1858 December 23.  Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.  (New York, New York.)  December 23, 1858, Vol. V, No. 112, P. 18.

Two double page illustrations. Top.  View Of The City Of Chicago, South Of Water Street, And East Of State Street taken by C. H. Lillibridge, Of Chicago.

Bottom; “Michigan Avenue” On The Lake Front Of The City Of Chicago.

1859 May 28.  Chicago Daily Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  May 28, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 279, P. 1.

Home Again.—Our friend C. H. Lillibridge an accomplished artist, is home again from his Winter at the South, having passed six months at Mobile.  He brings with him the counterfeit presentments of several varieties of the “Rose of Alabama,” as well as of numerous notabilities, Fillibuster Walker, Madame DeVert, and others.  His pictures and photographs have gone the world over as furnishing the original for some of the best views and persons taken in and around our city, and published in the great illustrated weeklies of the East.  We are glad he will resume the camera and the dark chamber at No. 77 Lake street, where his winter’s collection of pictures may be seen.  A most exquisite thing is a full-size photograph of a Magnolia bough loaded with its gorgeous blossoms. Illustrating what aid the photographic art, in skilful hands, may lend to natural science.  

1859 September 12.  The Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  September 12, 1859, Vol. X111, No. 62, P. 1.

Lillibridge’s Gallery.—Lillibridge, an artist of high excellence in every department of the photographic art, has just finished and opened at No. 117 Lake street, on the second floor of the elegant new block, one of the best fitted and most complete galleries in this city or the Northwest.  Mr. Lillibridge is no mere plate cleaner, but gives to all his pictures the highest excellencies that position and grouping can add.  He has been for some years among the foremost in his profession here, and his pictures, both portraits and views of city and country are some of the most exquisite we have ever seen.  Of course, he will be well represented at the National Fair, but beyond that, all interested or curious to witness what the camera, in his skilful hands, has done and can do, will do well to go to No. 117 Lake street.

1859 September 14.  The Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  September 14, 1859, Vol. X111, No. 64, P. 1.

U, S, Fair Directory…

C. H. Lillibridge’s New Photographic Gallery, 119 Lake street, on second floor.  Life size portraits, the best and cheapest in town.

Advertisement ran from September 14 to 17, 1859.

1859 September 30.  The Press and Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  September 30, 1859, Vol. X111, No. 129, P. 1.

“Sunny Side.”—The sunny side of the street is where the sun is, and the Golden Sun, at 117 Lake street, marks the Photographic Gallery of the Wallis Brothers who have bought out Lillibridge.  F. J. Wallis is an artist of much promise, and has executed numerous fine oil paintings and portraits.  His brother now associated with him is admirably skillful with the Camera, and the two will turn out pictures, plain or finished, in all the modern styles of art.

1861 December 30.  Chicago Daily Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  December 30, 1861, Vol. XV, No. 148, P. 4.

Masonic.—At a Regular Communication of Garden City Lodge, No. 141, held in the Masonic Temple on Wednesday evening, December 25th, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—…C. H. Lillibridge, Sec…

1862 October 4.  Chicago Daily Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  October 4, 1862, Vol. XV, No. 76, P. 1.

Wanted Immediately—A Photographer.  Call on Lillibridge, No. 109 Lake street.

1863 March 16.  Chicago Daily Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  March 16, 1863, Vol. XV, No. 223, P. 4.

A Card To The Picture Public.  The Photographers of the city take this method to inform their patrons and the public, that owing to the great advance in Photographic materials, which is from one to three hundred per cent, on most articles used, and finding it impossible to live and do justice to the Art at former low prices, having agreed to an advance of about 25 per cent, on former rates, thus enabling them to carry out their determination to investigate and adopt all new improvements, and make Chicago in Pictures what she is in many other things.  The First In the World.  Trusting this will meet the approbation of their patrons, they are respectfully,

A. Hesler………………..J. Battersby.

E. R. Gard………………A. Pattiana.

S. M. Fassett…………….R. Cunningham.

J. Carbut…………………E. L. Brand.

W. W. Stoddard………….J. H. Fox.

W. Shaw…………………R. Nias.

J. Crater………………….Green C. Wing.

P. B. Green………………Williams & Davids.

Miner & Bipell…………..W. E. Smith.

C. H. Lillibridge…………Johnson & Bishop.

B. E. Terrill……………..Cressy & Templeton.

1865 March 4.  Chicago Daily Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  March 4, 1865, Vol. XVIII, No. 239, P. 4.

N. W. Photographic Society.—The annual meeting of the Northwestern Photographic Society was held last evening, and the following officers elected to serve during the current year:

President.—John Carbutt.

Vice Presidents.—C. H. Lillibridge, William Shaw.

Corresponding Secretary.—E. L. Brand.

Recording Secretary.—T. D. Bill.

Treasurer.—Joseph Battersby.

1866 January 1.  The Chicago Republican.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  January 1, 1866, Vol. 1, No. 185, P. 4.

Arrival.  A. Hesler announces to his friends and the public that, after an absence of nearly a year from the city, he has returned, and located for the winter at Lillibridge’s Gallery, No. 109 Lake street, two doors below his old stand, where he will be pleased to see all in want of lifelike pictures.  Having spent nearly all the past year in travelling, experimenting , and improving his art, he feels confident that he will be able to give all who call on him better pictures thab=n ever before, and at less prices.

The Argentotype, invented by him, he has so improved as to surpass all imitations.

This branch of the art will be made his specialty, and all who want a likeness combining all the beauty of the finest ivory miniature with the perfections of the daguerreotype, will find it to their interest to call on him at 109 Lake street.  Don’t mistake the number.  Hesler has no connection with any other gallery.

Bring on your babies.  Hesler will take them better than ever.  A. Hesler, 109 Lake street.

1866 March 4.  Chicago Daily Tribune.  (Chicago, Illinois.)  October 12, 1866, Vol. XX, No. 129, P. 4.

Resolutions of Respect.  At a meeting of the photographers of Chicago, C. H. Lillibridge in the chair, the following resolutions were adopted:

Whereas, in the wisdom of our Common Father, it has pleased Him to call from our midst Mr. Isaac Crater, one of our brother photographers; therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of our friend and brother we have lost an honorable member of the profession, a true lover of the art, and an ardent and energetic worker.

Resolved, That we, as a fraternity, deeply deplore his loss from amongst us, and tender our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved mother and relatives.

Resolved, that the above be published in the city papers, and a copy presented to his mourning friends; and also be forwarded to the Photographic Journal.

Chicago Photographers 1847 Through 1900.  As Listed In Chicago City Directories.

1854                75 Lake St.

1855                not listed

1856-1859       77 Lake St. [2]

1860                not listed        

1861-1869       109 Lake St.

1869                not listed

1870                109 Lake St.

1871                not listed

[1] Chicago Photographers 1847 Through 1900.  As Listed In Chicago City Directories.

[2] 1857-1858 directory listed as Charles; 1859-1860 directory recorded as Clark.