1858-1859       45 Main Street, Evansville, Indiana.

1858 June 9.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  June 9, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 41, P. 3.

Daguerrean Gallery.  Evansville can now boast of having the largest and one of the best galleries in the State.—Messrs. Randall & Elliott’s City Gallery, No. 45 Main street.—  These gentlemen keep up with all the new and valuable improvements, and an examination of their work will convince any one that their pictures are second to none.

1858 July 31.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  July 31, 1858, Vol. X, No. 306, P. 3.

The Circus band was parading through the streets yesterday.  The horses presented quite an imposing appearance with their red plumes floating jauntily over their heads.  Messrs. Randall and Elliott took a picture of them as they were passing up Main street.  Also of the spotted leopard which was loose in a carriage in front of the band.

1858 August 6.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  August 6, 1858, Vol. X, No. 311, P. 3.

If you want a fine life-like picture of yourself, go to the City Gallery, No. 45 Main street.  Remember that the best is always the cheapest, and especially is this so with regard to pictures; therefore go where you are sure of getting the best.  Messrs. Randall & Elliott have just received a great variety of plain and fancy cases.

1858 September 15.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  September 15, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 32, P. 3.

Messrs. Randall & Elliott, at the City Gallery, 45 Main street, have, with their mammoth instrument, been turning out some beautiful groups, some of them containing twelve men in a group.  They have the largest and best instrument that was ever brought to this city, and persons wishing pictures, singly or in groups, would do well to patronize the city gallery.

1858 September 25.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  September 25, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 41, P. 3.

Messrs. Randall & Elliott are prepared to finish any number of nice photographs of the Marine Hospital, at the reasonable price of 50 cents per picture.  The photograph is a fine one, and will make, when framed, a neat parlor ornament.  Our citizens should procure the picture of their finest building whilst they have the opportunity.

1858 October 1.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  October 1, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 46, P. 3.

Messrs. Randall & Elliott, at the City Gallery of Art, 45 Main street, are now making very large Photographs and coloring them in oil.  They are the most beautiful as well as the most durable pictures that were ever made and we advise all who wish to obtain a “thing of beauty” that shall be a “joy forever” to give them a call.

1858 October 12.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  October 12, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 55, P. 3.

Pictures! Pictures!!—Persons visiting our city during the Fair, and especially those who are in town who are in want of first-rate likenesses, should not fail to call at Randall & Elliot’s City Gallery of Art, 45 Main street.  Our citizens not be old that this is the best Gallery in the West, and those who are not posted, need only their specimens to be convinced of the fact.

1858 October 19.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  October 19, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 61, P. 1.

List of Premiums Awarded by the Vanderburgh Agricultural and Horticultural Society…Division F—Class 1.

Randall & Elliott, best collection of Ambrotypes…………………………$1 and dip.

Tileston and Brother, best plain and colored collection of Photographs…..$1 and dip.

1858 October 23.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  October 23, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 65, P. 3.

Messrs. Randall & Elliott have sent up to the Fair at Vincennes, specimens of their exquisite Photographs, which will reflect credit upon our city and bear off the premium for their artistic faultlessness.

1858 November 24.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  November 24, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 92, P. 3.

We used to think when we wished to have our Daguerreotypes taken, that we must choose a clear day, but we find that with Messrs. Randall & Elliott it makes no difference, and that even on such days as yesterday, with their fine light and well regulated chemicals, they can turn out a very fine picture, in the short space of a few seconds.  They keep a nice warm stove, which ensures comfort to their customers, what little time they need to stay.

1858 December 21.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  December 21, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 114, P. 3.

Photographs.—We have received from the City Gallery, an excellent photograph likeness of Professor Mitchell, from a negative taken by Mr. Elliott during the professor’s recent visit to the city.  The numerous admirers of the eloquent lecturer and astronomer, can, at a small cost, procure his lineaments in their memories if there be any danger of their ever being effaced by time and distance.

1859 January 7.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  January 7, 1859, Vol. XI, No. 128, P. 3.

Annual Report of the Librarian of the Evansville Library Association for the year ending December 31^st, 1858….Messrs. Randall & Elliott presented a photographic likeness of Prof. Mitchell…

1859 January 18.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  January 18, 1859, Vol. XI, No. 137, P. 3.

Since Mr. Elliott has become sole proprietor of the City Gallery, he has turned his attention almost entirely to the production of Photographs and Melainotypes; and the fact that his business has increased so rapidly, shows that his pictures are appreciated.  He has just received by express a fine assortment of beautiful cases, and also a lot of those splendid whole-sized, oval-gilt frames, which add so much to a fine photograph.  Remember, 45 Main street.

1859 January 25.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  January 25, 1859, Vol. XI, No. 143, P. 3.

There is quite a run on the City Gallery, 45 Main street, for these Melainotypes; but Mr. Elliott aims to make the supply equal to the demand, and can usually do so.  Sometimes in the afternoon, however, he has more than he can accommodate, and those who do not wish to wait had better go in the forenoon.  Mr. M. intends soon to make Photographs the size of life.

1859 April 6.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  April 6, 1859, Vol. XI, No. 194, P. 2.

Our readers should not fail to read the card of J. Perry Elliott, of the City Gallery of Art, No. 45 Main street, Evansville, Ind.  Mr. Elliott has a magnificent gallery—the finest in the State.  He takes perfect life like pictures, and those of our friends who visit the city should call on him and get a beautiful picture.  He gets up some splendid photographs.—Petersburgh Reporter.

1859 April 26.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  April 26, 1859, Vol. XI, No. 211, P. 3.

Oak Hill Photographs.—Mr. Elliott has taken negatives of several beautiful views in Oak Hill Cemetery—one embracing the cottage—from which he is prepared to produce any number of photographs.  He offers them in frames and glass for the low price of one dollar each.

1859 September 5.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  September 5, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 16, P. 2.

J. Perry Elliott’s City Gallery Of Art, No. 45 Main Street, Evansville, Ind.  Particular attention given to Photograph and Melainotypes.                  

Advertisement ran from September 5 to December 31, 1859.

1859 October 17.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  October 17, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 53, P. 1.

List of Premiums Awarded at the South-Western Indiana District Fair.  Class 12—Art.

J. Perry Elliott, of Vanderburgh [County], best collection plain photographs, diploma.

1859 October 19.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  October 19, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 55, P. 2.

It is a fact that is becoming notorious, that J. Perry Elliott’s Photographs are far superior to any that are made in this part of the country, and equal to any that are made East or West.  Any one who doubts it, need but call at the City Gallery, No. 45 Main street,—examine the splendid likeness of Miss Hulitt’s and others, which he has recently made—to be convinced.

1859 October 25.  The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana.)  October 25, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 60, P. 3.

There are still a few sets of those beautiful photographic views of Oak Hill Cemetery at Mr. Elliott’s City Gallery, 45 Main street, and as the negatives are preserved, they can be multiplied at pleasure.  They present to us—true to life—a place that, to most of us, is very sacred, and, at the same time, one of the loveliest places in nature.  The cost of those views is so trifling, compared with their real value, that we think family should have them.