1851-1852       Room in the Mozart Hall, Front Street, Wilmington, North Carolina.

1851 March 7.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  March 7, 1851, Vol. 7, No. 26, P. 3.

J. W. Gulick, Daguerreotypist, Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wilmington and its vicinity, that he has taken the Daguerrian Room in the Mozart Hall, Front Street, North of

Messrs. Polley & Hart’s.

Pictures made in every style and size, from a Locket Picture to a half plate size Portrait.

All are invited to call and examine my specimens of the art and judge for themselves.

N. B. As my stay in this place is limited, those wishing correct representations of themselves will find the present a favorable opportunity.  How often do we regret that no likenesses remain to perpetuate the looks of our dearest friends?  Nobel deeds will ever hold a place in our memory, but the familiar faces of their actors vanish from our recollection like unsubstantial dreams.  “Procrastination is the thief of time.”

Advertisement ran from March 7 to 28, 1851.

1851 April 4.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  April 4, 1851, Vol. 7, No. 30, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes.—Positively the last week.  J. W. Gulick would respectfully inform the citizens of Wilmington, that his Daguerrean Rooms will be closed in one week from date.  Those wishing to get a true and correct likeness, will do well to improve the present favorable opportunity, as it is probably the last time that some of you ill ever have to get a picture with so much life-like accuracy and unrivaled beauty.

N. B.  Now is the time for those who wish to preserve the resemblance of their parents, relatives and friends.  As I have quite a number of engagements, I should like to have those who intend to sit for a picture, to let me know of it by leaving word the day previous, at my Rooms in Mozart Hall, Front Street, north of Messrs. Polly & Hart.

1851 September 19.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  September 19, 1851, Vol. 8, No. 2, P. 3.

Sky Light Daguerrian Gallery.  The subscriber respectfully announces to his friends from the very flattering encouragement he has met with, and at the solicitation of many friends, he has been induced to open a permanent Sky Light Daguerrean Gallery, in this city.  And be respectfully solicits a call from those who may wish nature’s perfect counterfeit of themselves, or friends, in the form of an unfading and life-like Daguerreotype.  He is provided with one of the best Apparatus now in use, and with every variety of frame, case, locket, pins, &c., in which to place Pictures, at prices greatly reduced.

Paintings, Engravings, Daguerreotypes, &c., correctly copied.  Instruction given in the art and a proficiency guarantied.  J. W. Gulick.  September 8th, 1851.

Advertisement ran on September 19 & 26, 1851.

1851 October 24.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  October 24, 1851, Vol. 8, No. 7, P. 2.

Daguerreotypes.  We call attention to the advertisement of Mr. Gulick in another column.  It will be seen that he proposes to establish a permanent Daguerrean gallery in this place, which will be a very considerable convenience to our resident citizens as well as to visitors from the country.  The specimens of Mr. G.’s art which we have seen are very creditable to him as an operator, and are such as cannot fail to give satisfaction to those who may favor him with their patronage.

1851 October 24.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  October 24, 1851, Vol. 8, No. 7, P. 3.

Sky Light Daguerrian Gallery.  “Secure the shadow ere its substance fade.”  The subscriber respectfully announces to the citizens of Wilmington and its vicinity, that he has opened a permanent Sky Light Daguerrian Gallery in this town, where he can be found at all times, every ready to put forth his best effort to please all who may favor him with their patronage.  He promises to spare no pains or expense to keep up the reputation which he flatters himself his Pictures have gained for their durability, as well as for correctness of portraiture and style of finish.  He is provided with one of the best apparatus’ now in use, and with every variety of Cases, Lockets, Pins, Medallions, Finger Rings, &c., in which to place likenesses, at prices greatly reduced.  He respectfully solicits a call from those who wish a correct representation of themselves, relatives or friends.  How often do we regret that no likenesses remain to perpetuate the looks of our dearest friends?  Noble deeds will ever hold a place in our memory, but the familiar faces of their actors vanish from our recollections like unsubstantial dreams. Be wise to-day, ‘tis madness to defer.

Rooms always open and free to visitors, whether they wish pictures or not.  Instructions given in the art, and a proficiency guaranteed.  J. W. Gulick, Mozart Hall, Front -st., South of market, over Messrs. Polley & Hart’s store, and nearly opposite McRae & Harriss’s importing glass, china, and earthenware establishment.

Advertisement ran from October 24 to November 7, 1851.

1851 November 14.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  November 14, 1851, Vol. 8, No. 10, P. 2.

Our friends from the country, who with their families, may be in attendance on the Stockholders’

Meeting, will find some new attractions and sources of amusements.  If they want a good Daguerreotype, Mr. Gulick, in the Mozart Building has a permanent gallery and makes capital likenesses, at least we think so…

1851 December 12.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  December 12, 1851, Vol. 8, No. 14, P. 3.

Mozart Daguerrean Gallery.

Ye passers by, a word to you,

If ye would skill and beauty view,

Delay not, but your, way pursue

To Gulick’s well-known Gallery.

So-life-like images appear,

That you will think your friends are near—

Their voices you’ll almost seem to hear

At his Daguerrean Gallery.

All styles and sizes here you’ll find.

Which cannot fail to suit  your mind;

No Artist great are we behind

In Our Daguerrean Gallery.

Here friends in groups are taken well,

And such possess a potent spell,

In after years a tale they’ll tell

Of this Daguerrean Gallery.

And Gulick has both skill and taste—

A picture true he’ll take in haste—

A moment only you need waste

At his Daguerrean Gallery.

The invitation is to all—

To rich and poor—to great and small;

Please don’t forget in haste  to call

At this Sky-light Gallery.

Over Messrs. Polly and Hart’s Store, Front Street.  Dec. 8, 1851.

Advertisement ran from December 12, 1851 to March 5, 1852.

1852 January 2.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  January 2, 1852, Vol. 8, No. 17, P. 2.

The “Amateur Brass Band.”  We learn that a number of gentlemen of this town has associated themselves together under the above title, for the purpose of getting up a band, and have already ordered their instruments from New York.  The instruments, of which will be 17, including drums, are to be of the first class, and procured at an expense of about three hundred dollars.  The association already numbers 12 members, and will hold its next meeting at Mr. Gulick’s Daguerrean Gallery, on Monday evening next.  We hope that they may be successful in the attainment of their object, which is certainly a laudable one.  A competent instructor is to be engaged.

1852 April 9.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  April 9, 1852, Vol. 8, No. 31, P. 3.

Daguerreotype Portraits.  The subscriber would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wilmington and vicinity, that he has received large additions to his stock, and is now prepared to accomplish everything that the Art has attained.  He has every convenience for taking whole size pictures, down to the smallest miniature, together with a very large assortment of Frames and beautiful Cases.

At considerable expense he has obtained a Chemical preparation which is a decided improvement in the Art, and which produces proofs which cannot but please the most fastidious.  He has also a fine assortment of Gold Lockets, Pins, &c., in which to place Likenesses, which he is determined to sell cheap, so that every one can have an opportunity [of] obtaining a Likeness of a dear Parent, Relative, or Friend.

To Lovers he would state, that he has Cases made expressly for their case, quite small, so that they can be carried about the person with no inconvenience.  He has an apparatus for taking Views, which is a very great improvement.  A call is earnestly solicited from all connoisseurs of the Arts and Sciences whether they wish pictures or not.

Sick or deceased persons taken at their dwellings.  Painting and Daguerreotypes correctly copied.

Instructions given in the Art, and a proficiency guarantied.  Rooms over Messrs. Polly & Hart’s Store, Front St.  J. W. Gulick.

Advertisement ran from April 9 to May 14, 1852.

1852 May 7.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  May 7, 1852, Vol. 8, No. 35, P. 3.

“Art is long, and time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still like muffled drums are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.”

Alas, too true!  But the grave can no longer hide our friends from us—no longer utterly bereave Art, in her incessant efforts to rival nature, has dipped he pencil in the sunbeam, and by the alchemy as subtle as it is beautiful, perpetuate, in defiance of corroding time, every lineament and every expression of the beloved faces which are no more among the living.  How often do we hear the exclamation—“O, what would I not give for such a memorial of my friend or relative!”  A perfect Daguerreotype Likeness is, in many instances, the sole sacred relic of a dear friend.  Fail not, then, when friends are gone to have about you that which must supply their absence—A Perfect Likeness.—That you are promised, should you honor the subscriber with a call at his rooms on Front-street, over Messrs. Polley & Hart’s.  J. W. Gulick.

Advertisement ran from May 7 to 21, 1852.

1852 December 3.  Wilmington Journal.  (Wilmington, North Carolina.)  December 3, 1852, Vol. 9, No. 13, P. 3.

Something New.  A branch of Whitehurst’s Daguerrean Gallery in Wilmington, N. C.  The undersigned having taken the rooms formerly occupied by Mr. J. W. Gulick, is now prepared to take Likenesses of any who may favor him with a sitting.  By the aid of his new Sky Light (which has been constructed on the most approved and scientific plan) and his quick-working Camera; enables him to guarantee a Picture equal to any taken in any State in the Union, and in as short a space of time.  He most respectfully invites one and all to call and examine his specimens.  Cloudy weather preferable, (except for children.)  Come one, come all, and secure the shadow ere the substance fades.  B. F. Harrison & Co., Mozart Hall, over Messrs. Polley & Hart’s Store, Front-st.  Nov. 29th, 1852.