Daguerrean Gallery! Prof. Wm. P. Bassett, Daguerrian Artist, would respectfull y announce to the Ladies and Gentlemen of this place and vicinity…

by William P. Bassett

$1,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Erie, Pa.: Observer Office Print, ca. 1850 . Broadside, 11.75” x 9.875”, text within ornamental border. Completed in ink. CONDITION: Very good, one faint central and three horizontal creases, toning to lower quarter. An appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertising the services of a traveling daguerreotypist in northwestern Pennsylvania for “a few days” around April 17th,

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