Date of use : 1880 USA

C.L. Howe & Son Daguerreotype Studio

Business stationery. Used by the company. C.L. HOWE (1811-1895). Howe was born in Dummerston, Vermont, in 1811. He became interested in photography in about 1846 and soon bought a photography studio where he began producing daguerreotypes. He then bought a four-wheeled car for three hundred dollars and added a traveling photographer to his job description. He did most of his work in his home region. He came to Brattleboro in 1856 and bought a photo gallery. He was quite successful as a photographer. In 1880 his son John C. HOWE became associated with the company and the studio became known as C. L. Howe & Son. He died in 1895.

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