ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Notice.—Those persons subscribing for this Journal will please bear in mind to write in a plain hand the name, town, county, and state. By observing the above you will save us much trouble, and, at the same time, receive the Journal with more promptness.

G. K. W., Mass.—We have been unable to prepare the chemicals you ordered. Our arrangements are somewhat extensive in the department referred to.

M. S. W., Ala.—Mr. W. says, "Will you inform me, through your Journal or otherwise, Is iodine entirely lost when it combines with a few drops of a solution of potassa!"

It is not. The following experiment will better illustrate:—Put a few grains of iodine into a clean and dry Florence flask, warm it gradually over a spirit lamp, and the iodine rises in a vapor of beautiful violet color. When cool, pour in "a few drops of a solution of potassa," the iodine disappears at once, and a solution of iodide of potassium is formed; this may be heated to redness without evolving any violet fumes, and yet it is certain that iodine is there, but not in a free but a combined state, and heat cannot expel it from combination with the potassium. Let the flask cool a little, and add a few drops of sulphuric acid; the violet fumes of iodine instantly appear; the sulphuric acid has induced the formation of sulphate of potassa, and expelled the iodine unchanged.

F. B. B., Ky.—Your money is received, and the first Vol. forwarded per order. Thank you for your hearty congratulations.

J. G. P. R. I.—Yours of the 26th in hand. We advise you for the present to say nothing of your discovery: it probably has more valuable importance than you are at present aware of.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

As our Advertising List is already large, and the demand rapidly increasing, we are under the necessity of requesting those who wish to be made known through our Advertising Columns, to make their Advertisements as short as possible. The Daguerreian Journal is devoted to the interest of all.

DAGUERREIAN LIBRARY.

All of the works published on the Daguerreian Art, for sale at the Office of the Daguerreian Journal.

Address (post-paid) S. D. Humphrey,

No. 311 Broadway, New York.

DAGUERREOTYPE WORK,

PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCHES AND Manipulations, including the Author's former Treatises on Daguerreotypes,

By L. L. HILL.

The above work is now ready, price $3 per copy.

Orders addressed to S. D. Humphrey,

No. 311 Broadway, N. Y.

WANTED.

A SITUATION by an experienced Operator. One who can come well recommended, and has been engaged in the Daguerreotype business for the last eight years. Has no objection to any city in the United States.

For further information inquire at the Office of the Daguerreian Journal.

WANTED.

TO

DAGUERREOTYPISTS OF PHILADELPHIA.

WANTED—A situation, by an old and experienced Operator, to engage in some establishment in the above named city. The Advertiser can produce the best of Testimonials, and satisfactory specimens of Daguerreotypes.

For further information, inquire at the office of the Daguerreian Journal.

None need apply unless prepared to give a permanent situation to a good operator.

SCOVILL MANUFACTURING CO.,

DEALERS IN DAGUERREOTYPE MATERIALS,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

No. 57 Maiden Lane, New York,

Agents for Voightlander & Sons, and C. C. Harrison's celebrated Cameras; Harrison's, Brinckerhoff's, and Lewis' Buffing-Wheels.

The Scovill Manufacturing Co. are now prepared to offer to the public, cases of their own manufacture, which, for style, workmanship and superior finish, are not excelled by any in the market, and it is their intention to put them at prices which cannot fail to satisfy both the dealer and operator.

They think it quite unnecessary to enumerate all the articles which they may have on hand for sale, but simply to state that they are prepared to furnish every description of Daguerreotype Goods of the best quality at low prices, and to fill all orders with promptness and dispatch.

May 15th, 1851.

MYRON SHEW,

DEALER IN DAGUERREOTYPE APPARATUS AND MATERIALS,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

No. 118 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.

German and American Cameras of all sizes and of the best manufacture, Coating Boxes, Camera Stands, Mercury Baths, Buffing Vices, Head Rests, Plates, Cases, Chemicals, Frames, Gold and Gilt Lockets, Fancy Book Cases, Papier-Mache Cases, Preservers, Mats, Glass, and all articles used in the Art constantly on hand in great variety at the lowest prices.

Mr. S. having had a number of years practical experience in the Daguerreian Art, feels confident that he is prepared to give satisfaction to his customers in the selection of articles used in the business.

This being the only establishment in Philadelphia devoted exclusively to Daguerreotype materials. Artists will find it to their interest to call at once where they are sure of finding every article used in the Art.

Orders from the country promptly and faithfully attended to.

WANTED.—A Partner wanted in the Daguerreotype business. Any person who is a first-rate practical operator, and can command from five hundred to a thousand dollars, can now have one of the best opportunities of investing his capital in one of the best locations in a western city.

The establishment is now doing a very profitable business, and is capable of increasing to such an extent as to warrant the success necessary to induce a partner.

No one need apply unless he has the Cash Capital.

For further information inquire at the Office of the Daguerreian Journal.

CHEMICAL, LABORATORY.

DR. ANTISELL has Removed his Chemical Laboratory to 63 Franklin St., where he is prepared to undertake chemical analysis and examinations into the purity of materials.

Dr. A. will also take charge of any series of experiments to elucidate particular subjects.

Assays, analyses of ores, minerals, soils, and mineral water, made with correctness and despatch. May 1, 1851.

$10 REWARD.

A LARGE SIZED (plate, 11 by 13 inches) Daguerreotype has been recently stolen from my door, supposed to have been taken by some person about visiting Europe. Said Daguerreotype was a large sized head, and is a likeness of myself.

Any person returning said picture, and the large gilt frame that contained it, shall receive the above reward.

J. Gurney,

No. 189 Broadway, N. Y.

REMOVAL.

MYRON SHEW,

DEALER IN

DAGUERREOTYPE MATERIALS,

No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

MR. SHEW would respectfully inform his friends and customers that he has removed his place of business from his old stand. No. 116, to 118 Chestnut street, two doors from his former place, where he has made a permanent location, and, having greater facilities, will be better able to meet the increasing demands of his business. No pains will be spared in the selection of articles used by Daguerreian Artists, and every effort used to give satisfaction to his customers. A good supply of all articles used in the business constantly on hand, comprising German and American Cameras, of all sizes, Camera Stands, Coating Boxes, Mercury Baths, Head Rests, Buffing Vices, Gilding Stands, Lamps, Plates, Cases, Frames, Gold and Gilt Lockets, a variety of Fancy Cases, &c., &c.

Mr. S. would take this opportunity of returning his sincere thanks for former patronage, and solicits a continuance of the same. All orders either from the city or country, promptly and faithfully attended to.

MYRON SHEW.

Philadelphia, June 1st, 1851.

DAGUERREOTYPE.

JOHN SAWYER,

Successor to WILLIAM SHEW, dealer in Daguerreotype Apparatus and Materials, wholesale and retail. Also, manufacturer of Cases.

No. 123 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.

LOUIS BECKER

Well known CHEMICALS, for sale at Becker & Piards, No. 201 Broadway, N. Y.

CLEVELAND DAGUERREOTYPE STOCK

DEPOT,

JOHNSON & FELLOWS,

SUPERIOR ST., CLEVELAND, O.,

Keep a large and well selected assortment of Daguerreotype Goods on hand, and for sale at the lowest New York prices.

We respectfully call the attention of operators to our assortment of goods, which we warrant genuine.

Every exertion will be made to keep the best, latest and cheapest goods on hand.

Our assortment consists of every variety of Cameras, Plates, Cases, Chemicals, Polishing Materials, Apparatus, Fixtures, Frames, Sockets, &c., &c.

Instructions in the Art are carefully given.

Chas. E. Johnson, Parker Fellows.

NEW YORK

DAGUERREOTYPE

STOCK ESTABLISHMENT.

The undersigned would call the attention of Daguerreotypists and the trade to the recent improvements in their manufacture of plates, which, by a new method of finishing, enables them to present an article possessing a finer and softer surface, and requiring much less polishing than formerly. The edges of all are neatly bent.

Owing to greater facilities in manufacturing, the prices have been reduced, so as to bring them at about the same cost as the best imported brands.

They have constantly on hand a large assortment of

Plates, Cases, Frames, Mattings, Preservers, Lockets, Chemicals,

and Apparatus of every style and variety which they offer at the lowest prices.

Agents for Voightlander's, Harrison's and other Cameras; Harrison's new Buffing Wheel, &c., &c.

Scovill Manufacturing Co., No. 57 Maiden Lane, New York.

BENJAMIN FRENCH,

No. 109 Washington Street, Boston.

DAGUERREOTYPE Apparatus, Plates, Cases, Frames, Gold Lockets, Polishing materials, Chemicals, and every description of Goods used in the Daguerreotype business, constancy on hand and for sale, at wholesale and retail, at the lowest cash prices.

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$5 REWARD.

STOLEN from the door of Clark Brothers, 551 Broadway, one full size Daguerreotype View, in papier mache frame, oval fire gilt mat. Said View of a GOTHIC COTTAGE, on the steps of which can be seen a lady, two or three boys and a dog, Any person returning the above described Picture, or giving information where it may be found, shall receive the above reward Oct 16.

TWO NEW INVENTIONS

IN THE DAGUERREOTYPE ART.

"PECK'S PATENT PLATE HOLDER," and the "Bent Edge Daguerreotype Plate" used in connection with it. An instrument is sold for seventy-five cents, with which every operator can bend his own plates. The holder is a desideratum, and only requires to be used to be appreciated. It is so constructed that it will hold the plate through all the stages of cleaning, buffing, polishing, coating, taking the picture in the camera, and mercurializing without any change. During the whole process, the plate need not be touched with the fingers, and does away with the use of wax, &c., &c.

The prices for the holders are mediums, $1 00—quarters, $1 50—Halves, $2 00—whole size, $2 50.

The "Magic Back Ground." The discovery of this is due Mr. C. J. Anthony, of Pittsburgh, Pa. By this process the most beautiful effects can be produced, and the pictures are set forth in bold relief on back grounds of various shapes and tints. Pictures taken with the "Magic Back Ground," will be emphatically the "Pictures for the Million." The Patent is applied for, and the right ratified upon the receipt of the Patent, for the sum of Twenty-Five Dollars.

L. CHAPMAN, 102 William St., N. Y.

Manufacturer of Cases, Mats, Preservers, Plates, Importer of the genuine Star Brand, No. 40 French Plates, and dealer in Daguerreotype stock generally.

CLARK BROTHERS, & B. L. HIGGINS.

Daguerreian Gallery, over the "Regulator," Franklin Buildings, Syracuse, N. Y., No. 128 Genesee St., Utica, Tremont Row Boston, and 551 Broadway, New York.

Likenesses by the improved Daguerreotype of various sizes, and of the most delicate executions may be obtained at the above rooms during the day, from 8 A M., to 5 P. M.

Chemicals, Plate, Cases, Cameras, Apparatus, and other materials, connected with the art, constantly on hand, and for sale at New York prices.

All articles are selected with great care and warranted to give the best satisfaction.

DAGUERREIAN ESTABLISHMENT.

JOHN ROACH, Optician, 79 Nassau Street, New York. Has always on hand

VOIGHTLANDER INSTRUMENTS, quarter, half, and whole size.

American Instruments, Roach's make, warranted to be superior to any yet made in the United States. They work with sharpness, and quickness, and persons purchasing can test them with the high priced German Instruments.

Coating Boxes, Flint Glass Jars, cemented in, and ground air tight.

Mercury Baths, with Thermometer Scale in front.

Head Rests, Stands, Cases, Chemicals, &c.

Plates, French 40th of the Star, and other first quality Brands.

Bromine Roach's Triple Compound, now called Quick-stuff, works with certainty and quickness, in all weather, and pictures taken with it have a rich white tone.

GALVANIC BATTERIES, &c.

CINCINNATI

DAGUERREOTYPE STOCK ESTABLISHMENT.

The undersigned would call the attention of those washing Daguerreotype goods, to his large and general assortment of all articles appertaining to the Daguerreian arts. The following named articles comprise only a few, compared with the great variety of his stock.

Cameras—"Voightlander and Sohn's" German Cameras.

C. C. Harrison's Quarter, Halves, Wholes, Mammoth, View, and Quick Working Cameras! Also a general assortment from other manufacturers.

Complete sets of Apparatus—such as Coating Boxes, Mercury Baths, Plate Holders, Buffs, Buff Wheel, Peck's and Scovill's Patent Blocks, Lewis' new Iron Rests, Iron and Chair Head Rests, Gilding Stands.

Cases—Papier-Mache inlaid with Mother of Pearl, Velvet in and out with Clasps and Locks, Morocco lined with Velvet, Silk and Satin, Plain and Gilt, also a great variety of fancy patterns.

Plates of all sizes—Scovill's, French, 40th of the Star, and other first quality Brands.

Chemicals—American, German and French Bromine, Dry and Chloride of Iodine, Hydroflouric Acid, Cyanide of Potassium, Pure Distilled Mercury, a superior article of Chloride of Gold for Gilding, Hyposulphite of Gold, Chloride of Calcium, Colors, Rotten Stone, Rouge, an excellent article.

Lamps, Nippers, Glass Funnels, Glass Graduates, Prepared Buckskins, Brushes, &c., &c.

All of the above articles are of the first quality, and will be furnished at reasonable rates.

Orders punctually attended to and satisfaction given.

PETER SMITH,

No. 36 Fifth street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

DAGUERREOTYPE

STOCK ESTABLISHMENT.

THE SUBSCRIBER, would respectfully inform the Daguerreian Artists, that he has constantly on hand a large assortment of Daguerreotype apparatus, plates, cases, and chemicals, comprising in part the following:

Voightlander & Sons, Harrison's, Lewis and Perry's Cameras and other apparatus of the most approved styles.

Plates—Scovill's, Chapman's and the different brands of French plates.

Cases—Silk and velvet lined, Papier Mache and a great variety of fancy cases.

Chemicals—American, German and French Bromine, chloride of iodine, do gold, calcium, mercury, rouge, rotten stone, black polish, colours, brushes, rosewood and Papier mache, frames, mats, glass preservers, prepared buck skin, &c., &c. Every article used in the business, which I will furnish to operators at retail or wholesale, as low as the same quality of articles can be bought in New York or elsewhere.

Our motto is small profits and quick sales.

N. E. SISSON. No. 496 Broadway, Albany N. Y.

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LEVI CHAPMAN,

No. 102 William street, New-York, Manufacturer of, and Dealer in Daguerreotype Stock.

Daguerreotype Cases.

Medium size, from $15 to $198 per gross,

Quarter " " 24 to 288 "

Half " " 60 to 432 "

MATS, PRESERVERS and CHEMICALS of all kinds. French and American PLATES.

L. C. imports the genuine No. 40 Star Brand French Plate, which he keeps constantly on hand, together with an assortment of other kinds.

PAPIER MACHE CASES, inlaid with Mother of Pearl, exceeding in beauty any thing of the kind heretofore made, from 90 to $1152 per gross.

L. C. is also proprietor of Peck's patent moveable Plate-holder.

GEORGE DABBS, JAMES CREMER, } Travelling Agents.

PREMIUM DAGUERREOTYPE DEPOT AND MANUFACTORY,

W. & W. H. LEWIS, 142 Chatham Street, New York, keep constantly on hand, superior CAMERAS of all sizes; also, quick working Cameras, fully equal to any imported. All kinds of Apparatus, including our Patent PLATE VICES and GILDING STANDS; Galvanic Batteries for Electrotyping, for durability superior to all others. Buffing Lathes, on the most approved plan, Plates, Cases, Chemicals, Polishing Materials of every description. All kinds of Walnut, Rosewood and Gilt Frames for Daguerreotypes, outside Show Frames, Diploma, Certificate and Picture Frames made to order. Pressing Machines, for Straw and Leghorn Plats, of improved construction.

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DAGUERREOTYPE FURBISHING ROOMS.

WM. A. WISONG,

No. 2 N. Liberty Street, Baltimore, Md.

HAS CONSTANTLY ON HAND, a full and general assortment of Stock, for Daguerreotype use.

Embracing every variety of Cameras, Plates, Cases, Fixtures, Trays, Chemicals, and Materials used by Daguerreian Artists, all of which are offered at the lowest market rates.

Orders from Artists are respectfully solicited and forwarded with dispatch.

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Circular to Daguerreotypists.

GEORGE DABBS & JAMES CREMER, Travelling Agents for L. Chapman, 102 William street, New York, manufacturer of Daguerreotype cases, mats, preservers, and plates, and importer of the genuine Star brand, No. 40, French plate, and last, though of first importance, proprietor of "Peck's patent plate holder,"—the great desideratum which only requires to be used to be appreciated. Prices, $1,00 for medium; $1,50 for quarters; $2,00 for halt's and $2,50 for whole size holders—a vice to hold the blocks $1,50 and an instrument for bending the plates 75 cents. They would inform Daguerreotypists and dealers that they will wait upon as many during the winter, as their time will permit, for the purpose of exhibiting the patent Plate Holder, for a description of which see advertisement headed "Two New Inventions".

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New York, November 1, 1850.

INSLEY'S DAGUERREOTYPE GALLERY

REMOVED TO

No. 311 BROADWAY, N. Y.

(Between Stewart's and the City Hospital.)

THIS, our new Sky-light Gallery, is located on the second floor at the above number, and is universally acknowledged to be the most convenient and effective Gallery in the City. Every real improvement is taken advantage of, and, aided by scientific and gentlemanly assistants, we trust our pictures cannot be excelled.

The Clergy—the Statesman—the Artist—the Man of science—and all lovers of really good Daguerreotypes, throughout the United States, are invited lo call and examine our collection.

P. S.—This Gallery was for several years located on the corner of Cedar street, but is now removed to No. 311 Broadway.

CAMERAS.

C. C. HARRISON, Manufacturer of Cameras, and Camera Lenses, of all sizes and of the latest improvements. Office 293 Broadway, New York, where in his Gallery may be seen specimens of Daguerreotypes taken with instruments of his own manufacture, which for accuracy of performance are unsurpassed by any in the world.

N. B. A new and improved Camera for taking views, is manufactured by him, at a price unprecedentedly low.

C. C. HARRISON,

No. 293 Broadway, N. Y.

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DAGUERREOTYPE PLATES.

2000 LOUIS L. BISHOP'S superior PLATES, offered for sale at a great bargain, by

VICTOR BISHOP, 23 Maiden Lane. N. B. These Plates are silvered by the electro-magnetic process, and warranted superior to the best French plates.

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THE SUBSCRIBER still continues to carry on the business of ENGRAVING ON WOOD, in all its branches. His facilities are such that he is enabled to execute all orders promptly, and in every style of the Art, upon the most reasonable terms; while the experience of many years enables him to feel confidence in his efforts to give satisfaction to all who may favor him with their patronage.

Particular attention paid to the Drawing and Engraving of Subjects from Daguerreotypes.

N. ORR,

No. 151 Fulton-st. N. Y.

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BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.

WILLIAM S. DORR, 101 Nassau Street, over Ackerman & Miller's Sign and Banner Painting Establishment, is prepared to print, in the best style, and at the usual Low Prices, Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Pamphlets, Bill Heads, Circulars, Commercial and Law Blanks, Bills of Lading, Bank Checks, Notices, Labels, &c. Cards printed on the celebrated Yankee Press.

Few offices in the city have greater facilities for doing work with neatness and despatch, as most of the materials are new, and long editions are done by steam power presses.

Daguerreian Journal Print.