1854-1868       Address Unknown, Conneaut, Ohio.[1]

1859                Address Unknown, Conneaut, Ohio.

1859 October 1.  Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph.  (Ashtabula, Ohio.)  October 1, 1859, Vol. X, No. XXXVX, Whole No. 510, P. 3.

Township Fair.  The Fair of the Farmers and Mechanics’ Association… 

In Pictures there was no lack.  Every style and description had a sample, and many of them of highly respectable pretention.  Hawk of Conneaut had quite a gallery of Ambrotypes, of merit; and our quit and [unostentations] friend Marsh filled up his nich in so creditable a manner, that Ashtabula has no reason to be penurious of her patronage and support to one so meriting it.

 Ashtabula Township Fair.  Premiums Awarded By The Committees…

Class XVI—90 Entries…

W. W. Hawks photographs                             1.

W. Hawk, plain and fancy Ambrotypes.        1.

1865 February 25.  Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph.  (Ashtabula, Ohio.)  February 25, 1865, Vol. XVI, No. VIII, Whole No. 791, P. 3.

The editor of a county paper offers his photograph as a premium to new subscribers.  Don’t know but we’ll be compelled to report to some such scheme.—Conneaut Reporter.

Then you will also be compelled to report to some artist who who has a better supply of apparatus than Hawk, to obtain the pictures, for it is not likely that any instrument in his possession would stand the pressure of your gaze without going to pieces—Erie Dispatch.

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[1] Ohio Photographers 1839-1900.  (Second Edition.)