1858                134 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1859                61 Camp Street, corner Commercial Place, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1858 April 19.  New Orleans Daily Crescent.  (New Orleans, Louisiana.)  April 19, 1858, Vol. XI, No. 38, P. 4.

Anderson & Blessing’s New Photographic Gallery.  The Most Extensive in the City.  No. 134 Canal Street, New Orleans.

Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Photographs in every style, either plain or colored.

Particular attention paid to copying Daguerreotypes of deceased persons into Photographs—life, cabinet and miniature sizes, and painted in oil colors.  By this process perfect and life-like Portraits and Miniatures can be secured either from life or Daguerreotypes.

Terms, very moderate.

Advertisement ran from April 19 to May 20, 1858.

1859 October 31.  New Orleans Daily Crescent.  (New Orleans, Louisiana.)  October 31, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 202, P. 1.

Anderson & Blessing’s New Extensive Photographic And Daguerrean Saloon, No. 61 Camp Street, Corner of Commercial Place, New Orleans. 

We beg leave to inform our patrons and the public that we have removed from 134 Canal street to the above named spacious building, which we have spared no pains or expense in fitting and furnishing in a superior style, for the comfort of our visitors and patrons, as well as for the better execution of every style of Miniatures and Portraits known to the art.

Photographs made Life Size by the new Solar Camera Process, either taken from  life of copied from Daguerreotypes, Paintings, etc. and painted in Oil, Water, Pastel or India Ink.

We call special attention to this new style of Portraits, as being much more truthful to life in point of likeness, and equally as durable and beautiful to the old style of Oil paintings.

Photographs, either Plain or Colored, made all sizes.

Ambrotypes made to their perfection on a new and improved plan taken upon Metallic Plates, which cannot be broken.

Particular attention given to making Daguerreotypes.

None but the best Operators and Painters employed, and the public can rely on getting only the best.

The public are invited to examine specimens of our work, which we will take pleasuring in showing.  Anderson  Blessing, 61 Camp street, corner of Commercial Place.

Advertisement ran from October 31 to November 4, 1859.

1859 November 4.  New Orleans Daily Crescent.  (New Orleans, Louisiana.)  November 4, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 206, P. 5.

Anderson & Blessing’s New And Superb Photographic & Daguerreotype Saloon, No. 63 Camp street, Corner Of Commercial Place, New Orleans.  Opposite the Picayune Office.

We beg leave to inform our numerous patrons and the public, that we have removed from 134 Canal street to the above named commodious building, which we have fitted and furnished  in a suitable style, with the Largest Sky-Light in the City, A Large Reception Room for the Public, A Splendid Parlor And Dressing-Room, Exclusively for Ladies, and A Large Studio for our Painters, Together with all the necessary room and conveniences for the execution of Every Size And Style of Miniatures and Portraits known to the art.  From The Smallest Locket To Full Length Life Size On Canvas In Oil.

Photographs, Life Size, made by the new Solar Camera Process.

Photographs on Visiting Cards, by the hundred.

Photographs, all intermediate size.

Photographs, all sizes, untouched.

Photographs Painted in Oil Colors.

Photographs Painted in Water Colors.

Photographs Painted in Pastel Colors.

Photographs Touched in India Ink.

Photographs Copied from old Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Paintings, Drawings, etc. and finished in any style.

Photographs taken in Groups of Families.

Photographs taken of Buildings in any part of the city.

Daguerreotypes taken in all their beauty and perfection.

Daguerreotypes taken of deceased persons in any part of the city.

Ambrotypes taken on a new and improved plan upon metallic plates, thereby obviating the danger of braking.

Ambrotypes transferred to Paper or Leather, letter size, for mailing.

—Also—Any, Every And All Styles Of Miniatures and Portraits, Too numerous to enumerate here.

Advertisement ran from November 4 to December 31, 1859.

1859 November 7.  New Orleans Daily Crescent.  (New Orleans, Louisiana.)  November 7, 1859, Vol. XII, No. 208, P. 2.

A Splendid Establishment.—It is a function of our professionality to pry into and examine the merit of everything curious or unusual, and necessarily the attributes of novelty of curiousness which a thing so inspected possesses, must be of a very marked character to excite surprise in an intelligence rendered blasé by much sight-seeing.  Consequently we were surprised that we were surprised when we visited the new photographic and daguerreotype saloon of Messrs. Anderson & Blessing, at 61 Camp street.  It is an establishment which is really a credit to the city, such is its extent and elegance, and the costly magnificence of its appointments.  The finest furniture, the most gorgeous products of the carpet loom, and superb specimens of art combine to impart to the various and spacious apartments occupied by the proprietors an unusual aspect of elegance and munificence of management. A visit will repay any one, no matter where he has traveled and how much he has seen, for the saloon in unsurpassed.  It occupies the upper part of the large building corner of Camp street and Commercial Alley.  At the head of the first flight of stairs the visitor is issued into a wide apartment—the general reception room and and picture gallery—sumptuously furnished, its walls covered with paintings and pictures taken by several processes of daguerrean and photographic art.  Beyond this is the bookkeeper’s office and a vault large enough for any bank, or for a small family to go to house-keeping in, for the deposit of valuables used in the art, etc.  Further on is the warehouse room heavily stocked with material used by daguerrean and photographic artists, for Messrs. Anderson & Blessing are among the heaviest importers and dealers in these goods in the country.

The third floor is occupied by ladies’ and gentlemen’s’ parlors and dressing rooms, elegantly furnished like the reception room below; by the skylight room, the skylight being of extraordinary size and probably not surpassed in the country; by a chemical laboratory; by a workshop and finishing room, and by a laboratory for the preparation of the paper, etc., for photographs, and by the studio for the artists who finish photographs in colors.  On the fourth floor are several rooms devoted to various uses, one of them containing the various solar camera apparatus for taking those life-size or colossal pictures, the excellence of which have given Messrs. A. & B. so wide a reputation.

These gentlemen, since removing to their new quarters, have renewed the beautiful daguerrean art which fell into comparative desuetude in the first rage for ambrotypes and photographs, and have made some of the finest pictures that were ever produced for those visitors who preferred the daguerreotype, which, after all, is “hard to beat,” if the picture be taken by a skillful and experienced artist, and only such practice their profession at Messrs. Anderson & Blessing’s establishment, where the extensive business of the concern is conducted in all its branches with a systematic regularity, promptitude and perfection only to be secured by the management of gentlemen who are thorough business men, as well as entirely accomplished artists.  We advise those who want the best pictures at a reasonable price, or want nothing but the gratification of an intelligent curiosity, to look in at 61 Camp street, for until they do they will have no idea of what a first-class photographic and daguerreotype saloon is.