Ca. 1848-1852            96 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

Information from Vital Records of Chelsea, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850. 

Chelsea Marriages.  1848 January 28.  William B. Jones, widr., of Boston, age 31, son of Abner and Phebe of Lynn, and Rachel Carney daughter of John & Sarah Carney, age 23.

Information from Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1849.  Volume I.—Births.

Sarah Eveline Jones, daughter of William B. Jones, Daguerreotypist and Rachel, March 25, 1849.

1850 September 2.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 2, 1850,  Vol. XXI, No. 6179, P. 2.

A patent has been granted to John A. Whipple, the Daguerreotypist, and William B. Jones, of this city, as the original inventors of the process of taking Daguerreotypes or Photographic pictures on glass.

1850 September 2.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 2, 1850,  Vol. XXI, No. 6179, P. 3.

Notice.  Whereas Letters Patent have been granted to John A. Whipple and William B. Jones, of Boston, for the invention of taking photographic pictures or daguerreotypes on glass, all persons are cautioned against using the same, as any infringement will be dealt with according to the law made and provided.  Patent rights for sale on reasonable terms.

Apply to J. A. Whipple, 96 Washington street.

Advertisement ran from September 2 to November 12, 1850.

1850 September.  Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. (Boston, Massachusetts)

warded a Silver Medal at the sixth exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Fair for Improvements in Photography.

1850 September 4.  Daily Advertiser.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  September 4, 1850, Vol. 7, No. 210, P. 3.

—John A. Whipple and W. B. Jones of Boston have secured a patent for the process of Daguerreotyping on glass.

1850 September 4.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  September 4, 1850, Vol. X, No. 2928, P. 1.

Daguerreotypes On Glass.—A Patent has been granted to John A. Whipple and Wm. B. Jones of Boston, as the original inventors of the process of taking Photographic pictures or Daguerreotypes on glass.

1850 September 4.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  September 4, 1850, Vol. X, No. 2928, P. 5.

Notice.—Whereas letters patent have been granted to John A. Whipple and Wm. B. Jones of Boston for the invention of taking Photographic pictures or Daguerreotypes on glass, all persons are cautioned against using the same, as any infringement will be dealt with according to the law made and provided.  Patent rights for sale on reasonable [terms.]  John A Whipple, 96 Washington St. Boston.                                                           

Advertisement ran from September 4 to October 3, 1850.

1850 September 21.  New London Democrat.  (New London, Connecticut.)  September 21, 1850, Vol. VI, No. 28, Whole No. 288, P. 2.

New Process Of Daguerreotyping.—A patent has been granted to John A. Whipple the Daguerreotypist, and William B. Jones of this city, as the original inventors of the process of taking Daguerreotypes or Photographic Pictures on glass.

1850 October 27.  The Daily Chronotype.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  October 27, 1850, Vol. 8, No. 102, P. 1.

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association.  The committees of judges having all completed their reports, the Executive Committee are now enabled to publish the additional awards for articles at the Sixth Exhibition, September 1850…Silver Medal to Whipple & Jones, improvements in photographs.

1851 September 26.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  September 26, 1851, Vol. XXII, No. 6509, P. 3.

John A. Whipple wou’d respectfully inform his friends and the public that he gives his personal attention to Daguerreotyping at No. 96 Washington street, where he wou’d be happy to wait upon those who intend procuring Miniatures, assuring them such as shall be perfectly satisfactory to friends, or no charge.  His Dissolving Views, now exhibiting at Amory Hall, are in charge of Wm. B. Jones, Lessee and Manager.

Advertisement ran from September 26 to October 3, 1851.

1852 March 3.  Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  March 3, 1852, Vol. 9, No. 54, P. 2.

Whipple’s Original, Unrivalled and Mammoth Exhibition of Dissolving Views Will be exhibited at Hampden Hall, Springfield, on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday, March 4, 5, 6 and 8, commencing at 7½.  That all may secure good seats, the doors will be open one hour previous.

Part I.

Views in Palestine or America.

Part II.

A powerful ox hydrogen microscope, magnifying many million times, showing the structure of plants and animals, many of which are visible to the naked eye—for instance, the eye of the House Fly, four or more feet in diameter, consisting of 8,000 small eyes.  In this part the laughable Panorama of the Darning Needle will be introduced, followed by the Microscope Menagerie, embracing a variety of Living Animals, inhabiting pure water, figs, raisins, and a variety of other substances, which are shown of a prodigious size, moving in all directions, creating immoderate laughter by their erratic movements.

Part III.

The Mountains and Valleys of the Moon, shown by a daguerreotype 12 feet in diameter, produced by the great Cambridge Telescope.  Scenes in England, Ireland, France, Spain, and Italy, in which will be shown the Snow Storm.

Part IV.

The Suicide’s Narrow Escapes; laughable predicaments and comical adventures of Obidiah Oldbuck in search of a wife.

The Exhibition will conclude with Pyramic Fires.

Notwithstanding the great attraction offered, the price of admission is only 12½ cents.

Positively no reduction for children.

Wm. B. Jones, Lessee and Manager.

Advertisement ran from March 3 to 6, 1852

1852 May 24.  Daily Republican.  (Springfield, Massachusetts.)  May 24, 1852, Vol. 9, No. 121, P. 2.

J. A. Whipple and W. B. Jones of Boston, have discovered a process by which the most perfect and beautiful daguerreotype picture can be taken on paper.  The picture are first taken on glass and then transferred to paper.  The number of copies on paper can be multiplied to any desired extent.  This is truly a great discovery.

1852 May 26.  Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  May 26, 1852, Vol. XXIII, No. 6715, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes on Paper.  A valuable improvement in daguerreotyping has been made by Mr. J. A. Whipple of this city, in connection with Mr. W. B. Jones.  By a new and delicate process Daguerreotypes can be transferred in the most perfect manner to paper.  We have seen several specimens thus transferred and can testify to the extraordinary accuracy and beauty of the impressions.  The idea of daguerreotyping on paper was first carried out by Mr. Fox Talbot, an English gentleman of fortune, and his invention was called the Talbotype.  The greatest difficulty in his process was the uneven texture and fibrous character of the paper, upon which the images were taken.  Messrs. Whipple and Jones substituted films upon glass for the paper negative of Talbot, for which improvement they secured letters patent in the United States.  The same thing was discovered at about the same time, by

Nepice, a French scientific gentleman; but pictures taken in this manner upon glass still lacked the harmony of light and shade desirable.  Objects in the shade, as in many daguerreotypes, could not be distinguished.  Mr. Whipple has recently improved upon the process so as to obviate this difficulty, and to give to every object represented, the delicate shading of nature.  The pictures we have seen are in every respect equal to the original daguerreotypes in effect, and superior as objects for preservation and parlor ornament.  We commend the curious to an examination of Mr. Whipple’s specimens.

1852 May 27.  Maine Farmer.  (Augusta, Maine.)  May 27, 1852, Vol. XX, No. 22, P. 3.

Talbotypes—Or Daguerreotypes On Paper.  Mr. J. A. Whipple and Mr. W. B. Jones have perfected a process by which the most perfect and beautiful daguerreotype pictures can be taken on paper.  We have seen several pictures of public buildings in the city and other objects taken by this process, which possess the beauty and fine finish and perfect distinctness of engravings, while they have much of the softness of crayon drawings.  The pictures are first taken on glass, and thence transferred to paper; and one great advantage of this process is, that after the image is obtained on glass, the impressions can be multiplied on paper to an indefinite extent; the glass plate serving as a stereotype plate of the picture which is transferred to paper by an easy and simple process.  It is the greatest improvement in daguerreotyping which has yet been made, and we hope will fill the artists’ pockets with “material aid.”  [Traveller.  

1852 June 4.  Barre Patriot.  (Barre, Massachusetts.)  June 4, 1852, Vol. 8, No. 47, Whole No. 587, P. 2.

J. A. Whipple and W. B. Jones of Boston, have discovered a process by which the most perfect and beautiful daguerreotype picture can be taken on paper.  The picture are first taken on glass and then transferred to paper.  The number of copies on paper can be multiplied to any desired extent.  This is truly a great discovery.

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