1859                Over A. N. M’Donald’s Variety Store, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1859 February 19.  North-Carolinian.  (Fayetteville, North Carolina.)  February 19, 1859, Vol. XX, No. 1031, P. 3.

Ambrotypes!  Barry’s Gallery Over A. N. M’Donald’s Variety Store.  Likenesses taken of all sizes, singly or in groups.

From long experience in the Art, our pictures are not excelled by those of any operator in the country.  Give us a call, examine our specimens, and judge for yourselves.  Who would be without the likeness of those they love?  Advertisement ran from February 19 to May 7, 1859.           

This is possibly Alonzo Barry who in 1859 paid tax to practice [photography] in Cumberland County. [1] Also E. T. Barry was active in North Carolina during this time period.

[1] Photographers In North Carolina The First Century, 1842-1941.  Stephen E. Massengill.