N.D.                76 Commercial Street, Wellfleet, Massachusetts.[1]

1860                Address Unknown, Stoneham, Massachusetts.¹

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J. F. Conant, Daguerreotypist, Wellfleet, Mass.  Pictures taken in the highest style of the art, and warranted.

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Business Directory.  Daguerreotypist.  J. F. Conant, 76 Commercial Street

Note:  Letter from Joanne Harriman, Stoneham Historical Society.

James Franklin Conant appears as a shoemaker in both the 1855 and 1865 Stoneham Censuses—age 51 in the latter.  He died in Stoneham July 16, 1880.  Obituary gave his age 66 years, 7 months, 23 days— born in Acton, Mass— no mention of photography .  No advertisements or samples of his work as yet.

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