The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-24

The New ART GALLERY.-Evansville,
both ut homo and abroad, is noted for her |
commercial and manufacturing advantages;
and truly in this respect she has not been
moderated; but while steamers plough our
waters, canal barges traverse our rich val
legs, and railroads bear in their daily bur-
dens, and all pour their rich stores into our
lap :of commerce; and although our FORCES
and foundries and mills and factories ring
with the hum Of machinery and the song Of
labor, yet our people have not altogether
forgotten to mingle the beautiful with the
useful, in building mp the fair fame of our
city.
The growing taste Of our people is cvinc-
cd by the number and order of arrange
mens of our public libraries and cabinets;
the Improvements in architecture; the en-
bellishment of public halls, saloons, bust
ness houses, churches and private dwellings;
the adornment of grounds; the advance
ment in music, and the polite modes and
habits of our society. And among the
many other improvements in popular taste,
none is moro perceptible just now than the
pleasure and satisfaction everywhere ex-
pressed at the recent fitting up by the
Messrs. Tileston, Randall & Co., of their
new Gallery of Art, on Main Street.
Reader, have you yet visited the new
rooms of these accomplished artists? 1t is
well worth visit by the lovers of taste
and the beautiful. The main stairway en-
trance from the street is broad and inviting
to the ascent. 1t is open at all hours of the
day, and till nine o'clock ut night, and is
then brilliantly lighted up with beautiful
gas fixtures. Arrived upon the second floor,
you are ushered into On elegant apartment
which combines the purposes of saloon,
sitting-roOm, and gallery of art. Here you
register your name in book conveniently
arranged for that purpose, rest awhile, if you
like, on tho comfortable sofas, and then look
around at the pictures upon the walls. From
the floor to the ceiling is hung an endless
variety of portraits, life-sizc photographs in
oil, colored photographs, ambrotypes, sun
pictures, stereoscopic views, groups, scenes,
landscapes, and every style and variety OF
pictures known to the art.
After you have, of course, selected from
the center table a case in which to have
your own pleasant features mapped out
you pull tasselled cord which hangs by
the second stairway and the tinkling of @
little silver bell above brings down one Of
the smiling young men, who ushers you W
into the chief operating room. This. cham
Der is forty feet long, by twenty in width
and is lighted by an immense sky light, in
the centre, over head. The cameras ant
screens are so arranged, rs that two sets o
operators can work at the same time with
equal effect, and the screens can be extend
ed in any way on slides and hinges, so as Il
admit of group OF almost any size being
feet in width.
Before sitting for yonr picture, you stei
into beautiful little alcove, fitted up in on
corner, and modcstly () drawing togcthe
the tasteful curtains, you find yourself befor
q large mirror, with all the other toilet par
aphernalia, and you soon make yoursel
"good looking enough TO be "taken of
without breaking the camera lens TIL
impression, with the delightful expression
Q is done in moment, and while your friends
the tall and afIable Dan, and the sprightl,
and skillful Tileston Bros, are perfectin
your nglineSs in the dark room, you hay
time to look about at the general ARRANGE
3 ment. At one end of the chamber is larg
shop or working room, for doing the me
n chanical work of the establishment, nm
: adjoining this is the dark room, fitted u
: with every possible permanent arrangement
At the other end is a room, with larg
! windows opening out TO admit the sunligh
G for Photographic purposes. Several smalle
: apartments adjoin, with "no admittance
h marked over the entrance, into which, how
ever, yen will be "admitted if you ar
!, good-looking, patronizing, and have an IN
; comfortable desire to poke your nose int
:, all the mysteries of the art. Your picture
c by this time, is ready; you are Statistic
J with it, pay for it, and descend into th
lower gallery, where you take card fror
v flnciful ocean shell-case on the centre to
r, bic, and descend to the street, wonderin
: why everybody don't visit Tileston, Ran
:. dali & Co.'s Picture Gallery, and resolv in
: to tellyour friends so. In short you arc sati'
fed, after visit, as We are, that this Caller
$ will hereafter not only afford pleasure an
: profit to our own people, but that stranger
> happening in the city, will visit these room:
along with the other exhibitions of publ
u taste and pleasure which adorn the flourish
), ing city of Evansville.
RG James Mitchell, Secretary of ii