1856                Address Unknown, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

1857                2 Winter Street, Boston, Massachusetts.¹

1858                335 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

1858                230 Commercial Street, Boston, Massachusetts.1

1859                365 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.1

1860                Address Unknown, Roxbury, Massachusetts.1

1856 April 5.  Manuscript.  Letter from D. Barnum to Scovill Manufacturing Company.  Collection of Scovill Manufacturing Company Records, Scovill II, Incoming Letters, vol. 2, p. 104.  Baker Library, Harvard University Graduate School in Business Administration.

Mr. Humphrey, Dear Sir In you (sic) journal for March 15, I Noticed a Call for a first class Daguerreotypist to go to California.  being desirous of visiting that Country I resolved to Answer your notice.  I have been in the business now 5 years & for the past year I have been at work for Messrs. Southworth & Hawes and I am at work there at present. & Shall continue to unless I go to California.  I am a Married Man & Shall take my wife with me.  If you have not found the man you want, And should you think fit to Answer this Stating particulars

Address.  D. Barnum 5½ Tremont, Row, Southworth & Hawes’ Daguerreotype Rooms, Boston

1857-1875.  Stereo Views.  By John S. Waldsmith, 1991.

List Delos Barnum as being active from 1857 to 1875.  Made early photographs of Boston

(ca. 1857) on ivory mounts with blind-stamped identification.  Most notable is his “American Historical Series” (1859) of more than fifty views of Revolutionary War landmarks in and around Boston.  These are on ivory mounts with ornate and fancy descriptive backs.  He also did a fine series of Saratoga and Niagara Falls Plus a series of Washington, D. C.

1858 January 22.  Waltham Sentinel.  (Waltham, Massachusetts.)  Vol. 3, No. 4, P. 3.

Wyman & Co., Photographic Artists, 335 Washington Street, cor. West Street, Boston.

Photographs, Ambrotypes, and every picture in the Art, executed in the neatest and most approved style.

Photographs colored in oil, or tinted in water colors in any style.  Particular attention given to copying.  H. Wyman.  Ja 22.   D. Barnum.

Advertisement ran from January 22 to February 19, 1858.

1860 September.  Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.

Awarded a Bronze Medal at the ninth exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Fair for Stereoscopic Pictures.

1860 September 24.  Boston Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 24, 1860, Vol. XXXI, No 9331,  P. 2.

Stereoscopic Views.  Mr. Delos Barnum of Roxbury has a fine show of Stereoscopic Views in Mechanics Exhibition.  These views are not only of a very high order of merit, but the subjects selected for illustration have special interest to our citizens.  Mr. Barnum last year published an historical series of 21 pictures of noted places in Eastern Massachusetts, which we commended to public attention at the time.  His list, besides those above named, now include eight views of the College buildings and private residences in Cambridge, sixteen views of Mount Auburn, three at Nahant, twelve of places at Franconia, twelve of Niagara, twelve of Buildings and squares in Boston, and others representing noted objects  in Canada, Michigan, Vermont, Greenwood Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, etc.  The whole forming a collection of about a hundred and twenty American views of great beauty and national interest.  Thomas Groom & Co. and the other dealers have these views for sale.

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[1] Directory of Massachusetts Photographs, 1839-1900.