It is estimated that there are ten thousand daguerreotype establishments in the United States; these taking daily twenty pictures each, at an average of $2.50 each, giving two hundred thousand pictures, at an expense of over half a million of dollars. The amount of money paid annually for daguerreotypes is thought to exceed one hundred and fifty millions. Still the business is increasing.
This same article was found in the Janesville WI Weekly Gazette (Sep 29, 1855) & the following newspapers and more.
Fredonia NY Censor; Detroit MI Free Press; St. Paul Weekly Minnesotian; Illinois State Register; The Charleston SC Mercury; Hannibal MO Daily Messenger; The Brantford Weekly Expositor (Ontario Canada); Missouri State Times; The White River Standard (Bedford Indiana); The Sunbury (PA) Gazette, and Northumberland County Republican; Weekly Saint Louis MO Evening News and Intelligencer; Buffalo NY Courier Express; South Western Baptist (Marion AL); The South-Western (Shreveport LA); Richmond VA Dispatch; Asheville NC News.
(Alan Griffiths, 16 June 2025) I'm indebted to Kevin Mackey for bringing this article to my attention.
