Item No. 6114005

Anl 1870s handbill advertisement for the National Copying Company of Atlanta, Georgia. As described in the ad, the company’s business “is painting Large Portraits from Daguerreotypes, Ambrotype Photographs, Gems, or any kind of Small Picture,” and the firm was seeking agents to travel through their regions collecting photographs to be sent for reproduction. The ad continues:

All civilized people leave to look upon and admire good pictures. What affords more pleasure than the Family Portraits! But how much more are the prized when they are of the deceased husband, or wife, father, mother, brother or sister? Almost every family has pictures of some deceased relative that are fast fading out. Perhaps the white specks that so soon steal away the features have already gathered on the plate, and soon the image of the loved and lost will be forever gone.

Several testimonials follow from satisfied agents.

On the verso is a humorous “Lost Boy” flyer with a $5,000 reward to be paid “in coon skins, possum hides or other produce to be collected at or about next camp-meeting; or thereafter, by any one who catches him….”

Measures about 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”. Creased where originally folded.