1859                Court House, Edgefield, South Carolina.

1859                Rooms at the Planters’ Hotel, Edgefield, South Carolina.

1859 May 25.  Edgefield Advertiser.  (Edgefield, South Carolina.)  May 25, 1859, Vol. XXIV, No. 20, P. 3.

Hildebrand & Gibson, Ambrotype and Melainotype Artists!  Respectfully announce to the citizens of this Vicinity, that they have taken Rooms at the Planters’ Hotel, and are prepared to take Ambrotypes, Melainotypes, and Copy Likenesses in the best and latest style, at prices to suit the times.

Determined to give every one a chance to see themselves in miniature, they have reduced their prices to the lowest possible figure.

They will take likenesses in neat cases, at $1,00 and upwards, according to the finish of the case.

All work warranted to give satisfaction or no pay.

We would suggest to those who wish likenesses, to wear dark colored or black dresses, as the pictures thus taken, will be in every way superior to those taken in light colored dresses.

Come one—come all, and look at yourselves in one of our Ambrotypes.  Instructions given in the Art on reasonable terms.  Hildebrand & Gibson.

Advertisement ran from May 25 to June 29, 1859.

1859 October 19.  Edgefield Advertiser.  (Edgefield, South Carolina.)  October 19, 1859, Vol. XXIV, No. 41, P. 2.

Notice.  The partnership heretofore existing, under the name and style of Hildebrand & Gibson, for taking Ambrotypes and other pictures, is this day dissolved by mutual agreement.  J. A. J. Hildebrand,  John Gibson.

1859 October 19.  Edgefield Advertiser.  (Edgefield, South Carolina.)  October 19, 1859, Vol. XXIV, No. 41, P. 2.

Ambrotypes.!  J. A. J. Hildebrand thanks the citizens for their patronage heretofore extended to him, and begs to inform them that he will remain a short time longer in Edgefield at the Court House, where he will be prepared to take likenesses, and give instructions to young gentlemen in his art, on the most reasonable terms.  he will also, sell to any one making application to him at low rates, a full set of instruments, with the stock necessary to fit out a good Ambrotypist. 

J. A. J. Hildebrand.                

Advertisement ran from October 19 to November 23, 1859.