On this day (December 13) in the year 1849, the following advertisement appeared in "The Republic" (Washington, D.C. Vol 1, No. 155): - - - - - - - - - - - A M E R I C A N P H O T O G R A P H I C G A L L E R Y. S. N. CARVALHO, Artist, of Baltimore, respect- fully informs the citizens of Washington, and the public in general, that he has rented the Da- guerreotype Gallery formerly occupied by Van Loan & Chase, at the corner of 4 1/2 street and Penn- sylvania avenue, where he is prepared to make pictures which will bear comparison with any Da- guerreotypes in the world. He has established at Baltimore a reputation for making the best pictures in that city; and the public at Washington have now the opportunity of procuring an artistic pic- ture, such an one as will be worthy a place in the cabinet of the connoisseur or the ladies' centre- table. Groups of any number of persons can be taken, with all the classical arrangement of light and shadow, expression, and beautiful tone of a highly finished mezzotint engraving. N. B. The greatest care taken in procuring cor- rect likenesses of children; and in no instance will a charge be made without the picture is perfectly satisfactory. Call and examine specimens. Post- mortem cases promptly attended to. Corner of 2 1/2 st. and Penn. av. Dec 7 (As always, original errors of spelling/grammar maintained. -G.E.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 12-13-96