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Bridge, Henry

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1854                Brokerhoff’s Row, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

1854 April 27.  Centre Democrat.  (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.)  April 27, 1854, New Series—Vol. 20, No. 29, P. 4.

H. Bridge’s Star Daguerrean Gallery, Brokerhoff’s Row, Second Floor, next door to the one formerly occupied as the Centre Democrat Office, Bellefonte, Pa.

Nature has triumphed, and ingenious art

May to each chain an added grace impart,

Control the rays that mellow from the skies

And bid the image from the chemic plate arise.

This Gallery of art has a reputation for finished pictures firmly established without the foreign aid of imported “heads” or negative humbug.  We invite the test of examination.  Good judgement and correct taste we feel assured will not require the incentives of a high sounding boast to direct a choice of Pictures intended to perpetuate the image of those we love.  We do not rest our claim upon the vaunted popularity of a name, which, before real worth is destined to pass away.

“Like the baseless fabrics of a vision.”

Price of Pictures varying from 75 cents to $10.  Likenesses taken in cloudy as well as fair weather.  Children and deceased persons also taken.

The subscriber has on hand and for sale a first rate Apparatus and all necessary fixtures which he will dispose of on reasonable terms. Feb. 2, 1854.

H. Lyndall

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N. D.                Address Unknown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.                                                            1846                Address Unknown, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. [1]                                                            1848-1851     Armstrong Building on High Street, Columbus, Ohio.[2]                                    1849                Rooms in the Tallmadge Row, Lancaster, Ohio.                                                            1852                High Street, Columbus, Ohio.

H. Lyndall was recorded in an advertisement that ran from January 5 to 12, 1849 in The Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Ohio). Daguerreotypes. H. Lyndall, Daguerreotypist, would announce to the citizens of Lancaster and vicinity, that he will occupy (for a short time) rooms in the Tallmadge Row, for the purpose of prosecuting his business.

A long application to the art, together with his connection with the largest establishment in Philadelphia, he flatters himself will enable him to produce work superior to any thing ever offered in this place.

Likenesses encased in Lockets, Pins, &c., singly or grouped.  Lockets, &c., for sale.  Instruction and apparatus furnished on liberal terms.  N. B.—Having a Gallery in Columbus, his stay here will be short.  H. Lyndall.

H. Lyndall is listed in other photographic directories.

[1] address and date from Craig’s Daguerreian Registry.                                                                            [2] Address and dates from Ohio Photographers 1839-1900.

Henry L. Bridge

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1854    Rooms in the Store Room formerly occupied by Isaac Smith, Curwensville,        Pennsylvania.

Henry L. Bridge was listed in an announcement and advertisement on August 23, 1854 in the Raftsman’s Journal (Clearfield, Pennsylvania.)  Business Items:  Our friend Bridge, who is a cleaver fellow and deserving of patronage, has opened a Daguerrean Gallery, at Curwensville.  He takes beautiful pictures, and we have no doubt those of our readers who give him a call, will receive entire satisfaction.

The advertisement ran from August 23 to September 20, 1854.  Daguerreotype Gallery, At Curwensville.—The undersigned, would inform the public that he has opened a Daguerrean Room, in the Store Room, formerly occupied by Isaac Smith, in Curwensville, where he will take some of the best, cheapest, and most life-like pictures, that can be obtained in the country.  H. L. Bridge.

Craig’s Daguerreian Registry list a Henry Bridge as a daguerreian in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania from 1854-1860, and later was also reported to work in Pine Grove and Clearfield, Pennsylvania.  John’s only reference to his entry was the city directories provided to him on microfiche by the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. In all probability this is the same individual.  One could hypothesize that since Bridge shows up in the city directories in Bellefonte that this was his home base.  He probably was only listed in the residence section as a daguerreian without a business address, since John did not include an address in the entry.  In looking at a map of the area it is possible that Bridge made a circuit going from town to town.

The above is speculation on my part.  This is the only entry I have for Henry L. Bridge from the Raftsman’s Journal or any other newspapers in the area.  But, together with John’s work a pattern begins to emerge.  Further research might help to get a clearer picture of his activities.