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James Howie Jun. advertised in several newspapers from 1849 onwards.  Here are a few of the adverts:

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The Scotsman 18 December 1849, page 1

Also:  The Scotsman 28 December 1850, page 1 (but open Nine A.M. till Dusk)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS AT HALF-PRICE,

on NEW-YEAR's DAY and Two following days

at Mr J HOWIE, Junior's, Photographic Studio

49 Princes Street, Edinburgh

PRICES:

First Class, 1s. 6d.;  Second. 2s. 6d.;  Third 4s.;  Fourth, 7s. 6d.

N.B. - To prevent any disappointment, Tickets purchased on any of these days will be available for a fortnight.

Doors open at Half-past Nine A.M.

 

James Howie Jun. continued to advertise his business in the 1850s. He placed further adverts in The Scotsman on 20, 24, 27 Aug + 3, 7, 10, 14 Sep 1852.

The 11 Oct 1854 advert below is interesting.  It speaks of James Howie, Jun. having been in business as a photographer for eleven years.  It gives the prices of some of his photographs and it describes the location of his photographic studios at 71 Princes Street.

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The Scotsman 20 August 1853, page 1

MR J. HOWIE, Junior's

PHOTOGRAPHIC OR DAGUERREOTYPE

PORTRAITS

Taken Daily in any weather at 71 PRINCES STREET.

Aided by Mr H's beautiful and artistic Style of Colouring, these Portraits, as Likenesses and Works of Art, are invaluable.

Observe  71 Princes Street  Observe

N.B. - Established for upwards of Ten Years.

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The Scotsman 4 March 1854, page 1

VISIT the NEW GLASS PAVILION

71 PRINCES STREET and procure one of HOWIE Jun's First-Class COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

Taken in all weathers, from Nine A.M. till Dusk.

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The Scotsman 11 Oct 1854, page 1
Also:  8, 15 Nov 1854

UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

AT

AMERICAN PRICES

viz.  1s. each
or beautifully coloured and case
1st size, 3s.6d.    2d, 6s.    3d., 10s.

MR J. HOWIE, Junior, in returning thanks for the liberal patronage he has experienced in Edinburgh for the last eleven years, has determined (previous to alterations in his premises) to place within the reach of all for

A SHORT SEASON
his unrivalled
FIRST-CLASS PORTRAITS
which will be taken at his
C H R Y S T A L   P A V I L I O N
71 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH
(Queen's Temperance Hotel)

with all the latest improved Splendid Apparatus, and Talented Assistants, commencing on MONDAY October 2 1854.

The advert below refers to Daguerreotype, Collodion and Calotype photography being carried out at James Howie's studio.  This advert and others below describe the studio as the American Photographic Gallery.  Howie makes no mention of this name on the back of his cartes de visite, and I have found no reference to it in any of the Edinburgh trade directories.

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The Scotsman 8 Nov 1854, page 1

The Scotsman 28 April 1855, page 1

OVERWHELMING SUCCESS of the cheap prices at HOWIE junior's AMERICA PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY, 71 PRINCES STREET

Portraits taken in Daguerreotype, Collodion and Calotype

Prices from  1s.  First Class Assistants.  Two Glass Pavilions and splendid Apparatus, advantages unsurpassed by any establishment in Britain.  Observe - 71 Princes Street (opposite the Mound.)

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The Daily Express 24 June1855

American Photographic Gallery

Howie Junior

71 Princes Street

(opposite the National Gallery)

Well known and First Class PORTRAITS taken in
 this establishment at Half the price charged elsewhere

Prices from One Shilling.  Established for Fourteen Years

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The Daily Express 14, 20, 21, 22, 29 December 1855

American Photographic Portraits

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR GIFT

What would be the most acceptable and tasteful Gift for your Friends this Season?  Why!  A Life-Speaking PORTRAIT, such as is taken DAILY at HOWIE JUNIOR's AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION.

71 and 72 Princes Street, Edinburgh

Prices exceedingly low.  viz. from 1s
Handsome Portrait in Morocco Case  3s 6d

Open from 9 till dusk.  Established for fourteen years.

NOTES:

1.  The last sentence in the advert above raises the question of whether Howie's studio was first opened in:
-  1839 as stated on his early cartes de visite
- unlikely! -  or
-  1840 as stated on his later cartes de visite -  or
-  1841 as this advert suggests.

1.  The address of 71-72 Princes Street is interesting.  The trade directories for this period give Howie Junior's address as being 71 Princes Street from 1852 to 1864.  However there was a gap of two years where the trade directories show no photographer being based at No72.  i.e. the period between Horatio Nelson leaving in 1853 and the Truefitt Brothers arriving in 1856.  It appears that James Howie Jun may have filled this gap.

 

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