W.A. Pratt & Co (Richmond, Virginia)
1852
New Style Medallion Daguerreotypes in Colors

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Southern Planter (Richmond), Volume XII, 1852, p.95.
 
NEW STYLE MEDALLION DAGUERREOTYPES IN COLORS.
 
This splendid improvement must be seen to be appreciated. Our friends are invited to call at the original Virginia SkyLight Daguerrean Gallery, where may be found all the latest improvements, consisting of the
 
CELEROTYPE, by which infant children may be taken in one second;
 
TALBOTYPE, or Daguerreotype on Paper, and
 
HYALOTYPE, or Daguerreotypes on Glass, which, with every other improvement, may now be obtained at the Gallery, No. 139 Main street, above Governor.
 
N. ?. Their NORTHERN COMBINATION SKY LIGHT is now open in full operation it is the largest in the State.
 
WM. A. PRATT & CO. Proprietors.
MEDALLION DAGUEREOTYPES IN COLORS. We have inspected the above style of Daguereotypes, lately and so successfully introduced here by Messrs. Pratt & Co., 139 Main street. By this process, a relief almost magical, and a variety highly pleasing, is obtained. In some cases, the picture so closely resembles an enamelled miniature, in its ivory tone, as to deceive even an artiste; in others from the midst of a dark back ground, appears the "human face divine." In all the vividness of life; then, by still another process, the picture appears entirely upon a brilliant while ground, surrounded by wreaths of flowers. But, we feel our inability to do full justice to these beautiful medallion Daguereotypes, and must, therefore, request the curious in such matters, to call and judge for themselves. Messrs. Pratt & Co. claim to be the first to introduce the sky-light system into the State, and appear to be constantly inventing something for the improvement of the art. Repair to their gallery and "secure the shadow ere the substance fades." Richmond Times.
 
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