Cartes
de Visite
For several years, James Howie
Junior claimed that his business had been
established in 1839.
Then (prompted by what?) he changed the wording on the back of his
cartes de visite to read 'Established 1840'.
James' father held a daguerreotype
exhibition in Edinburgh in 1839, but I have still to trace the actual
date that the family's Princes Street studio was first opened.
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