Trade card for James & Co.'s Patent Ambrotypes for 25 cents, No. 4 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., December 1858

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Collection Type

Ephemera

Date

1858-12

GUSN

GUSN-265622

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Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
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Photography - Daguerreotypes and other early processes - Folder 1
Trade card for James & Co.'s Patent Ambrotypes for 25 cents, No. 4 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., December 1858
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Photography
    - Daguerreotypes and other early processes
      - Photography - Daguerreotypes and other early processes - Folder 1
        Trade card for John A. Whipple, daguerreotypes and crystalotypes, No. 96 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for S.H. Lloyd's Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 11 1/2 Tremont Row, corner of Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass., undated
        Handbill for A.S. Southworth and Company, daguerreotype, miniature rooms, No. 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston, Mass., 1844
        Trade card for Davis & Co.'s Original 25 Cent Ambrotype Rooms, corner Winter & Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for W.B. Eastman's Ambrotype, Daguerreotype and Photographic Gallery, No. 75 Court Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade cards for C.T. Sylvester, 25 cent ambrotypes, 4 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Wyman & Co.'s Gallery, 335 Washington Street, corner of West Street, Boston, Mass., dated May 1860
        Price list for Heywood's Mammoth Daguerreotype & Ambrotype Gallery, 223 Washington Street, corner Summer Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for James & Co.'s Patent Ambrotypes for 25 cents, No. 4 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., December 1858 (current record)
        Trade card for Bartlett's Ambrotype and Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 258 1-2 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Masury & Silsbee, daguerreotype artists, 299 1-2 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Charles Swift, daguerreotypes, 247 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Plumbe Daguerrian Galleries, 75 Court Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for J.H. Whitehurst's Galleries of Premium Daguerreotypes, No. 349 Broadway, New York, New York, 1850s
        Handbill for The opalgraph, E.R. Perkins, photographic and copying artist, 238 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., undated
        Brochure for John A. Whipple, photographic & daguereotype rooms, No. 96 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1860
        Price list of the National Daguerrian Gallery, 103 Court Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Hazelton's Photograph Rooms, ambrotypes, 365 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
        Trade card, N. Whitten, ambrotype and photography rooms, No. 168 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass.

Description

The Company will copy daguerreotypes to ambrotypes. The date "Dec. 1858" is handwritten at the top of the card.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
photography
ambrotypes (photographs)
daguerreotypes (photographs)
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Description

1 trade card ; 2 1/2 x 2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.090.02.01.009

Image Dimensions

2 1/2 x 2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Hill, 2 January 1923.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Summer Street (Boston, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

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