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Blessing, Samuel T.

Ambrotypes, Daguerreotypes, Photographic Stock and Chemicals, Photographs, , , , , ,

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.

Andrews, James

Daguerreotypes, ,

1855-1856       Corner Canal and St. Charles Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1857                3 & 10 St. Charles, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1855 October 20.  Weekly Confederate.  (Galveston, Texas.)  October 20, 1855, Vol. 1, No. 15, P. 4.

National Daguerrean Gallery!  Cor. Canal and St Charles sts.  Entrance Numb. Three St. Charles Rooms Nos. 20 and 21—up stairs.  New Orleans.  Jas. Andrews.  Feb 23.

Advertisement was recorded on October 20, 1855 & April 19, 1856.

1857 May 1.  New York Daily Tribune.  (New York, New York.)  May 1, 1857, Vol. XVII, No. 5002, P. 5.

[From the N. O. True Delta, April 24.]  A Woman’s Revenge.  Almost A Second Burdell Affair.  St Charles street, in the aristocratic and fashionable neighborhood of Canal, is becoming famous for scenes of startling importance.… (Mrs. Mary Jane Charles) wielded the dagger, James Andrews, the daguerreotypist being the victim.

From the best information we could obtain, we learn that Mrs. Mary Jane Charles lives, and has lived for some time past, in a large and elegant establishment at No. 269 Common street, where she rents furnished rooms.  She is a widow, and has been for some time; is about 30 years of age, beautiful, highly accomplished and fascinating in her manners.  Andrews is a young artist of lofty aspirations and Byronic exterior; and as he, some two years ago, took rooms at the establishment of the fascinating widow, it may, without any stretch of imagination, be supposed that a unity of sentiment soon sprung up between two such congenial spirits.  They loved, but did not get married.  They progressed on the mutual confidence plan for nearly two years, when their honeymoon began to wane, or perhaps became obscured by the overshadowing influence of the comet which is now whisking his ponderous tail over our planet, killing the early blossoms, and destroying not only the fruit crop throughout the Union, but also the sugar crop of our beloved Louisiana.

Andrews abandoned the idea, gave up all thoughts of reaching the round of the artistic ladder, when his admiring countrymen would concede to him the unquestioned right of wearing the unappropriated mantle of a Michel Angelo or a Rubens.  He became practical.  The charming widow was flush of the “sordid lucre,” and, with true Jacksonian energy and will, he laid his plans for a transfer of the deposits, which he soon accomplished, and instead of erecting a villa on the banks of the Lake of Como with the widow’s funds, he established two daguerreotype saloons—one at No. 3 St. Charles street, and the other at No. 10, a few doors from the True Delta establishment. This was not all—the cup of the charming widow’s misery was not yet full—the last drop that overflows the golden goblet, like the last ounce that breaks the camel’s back, was poured in when the unfaithful Andrews deserted her, which he did a short time ago, and married a Miss. Hoffner.

We have now stated the case as it was yesterday morning, and will give the sequel in as few words as possible.

Mrs. Charles, it seems, made up her mind to wreak her vengeance on her faithless swain by assaulting him, and then end life’s troubles by killing herself.  She procured a beautiful pearl handled dagger, we believe at Guion’s , and crossed the street towards the entrance of No. 3 St. Charles street, intending to reach the daguerrean saloon of Andrews and strike him while in the act of transferring the features of some fair one to the metallic plate.  She met him on the sidewalk, and as quick as thought the glistening blade had pierced his neck. As he turned and reeled she inflicted two more wounds on his left arm, and before the by-standers that thronged the sidewalk at the time could interfere, she gave him another stab in the thigh, when the dagger dropped from her hand.  With the utmost coolness she then forced her way through the crowd, no one in  it attempting to interfere with her, and proceeded to a carriage in waiting at the next corner, and was driven rapidly to her home, No. 269 Common street.

At a late hour last night Andrews was still living and Mrs. Charles was at her home, no arrest or legal investigation that we could hear of having taken place.

1857 May 2.  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.  (Brooklyn, New York.)  May 2, 1857, Vol. 16, No. 102, P. 1.

[From the N. O. True Delta, April 24.]  A Woman’s Revenge.  Almost A Second Burdell Affair.  St Charles street, in the aristocratic and fashionable neighborhood of Canal, is becoming famous for scenes of startling importance.… (Mrs. Mary Jane Charles) wielded the dagger, James Andrews, the daguerreotypist being the victim.

From the best information we could obtain, we learn that Mrs. Mary Jane Charles lives, and has lived for some time past, in a large and elegant establishment at No. 269 Common street, where she rents furnished rooms.  She is a widow, and has been for some time; is about 30 years of age, beautiful, highly accomplished and fascinating in her manners.  Andrews is a young artist of lofty aspirations and Byronic exterior; and as he, some two years ago, took rooms at the establishment of the fascinating widow, it may, without any stretch of imagination, be supposed that a unity of sentiment soon sprung up between two such congenial spirits.  They loved, but did not get married.  They progressed on the mutual confidence plan for nearly two years, when their honeymoon began to wane, or perhaps became obscured by the overshadowing influence of the comet which is now whisking his ponderous tail over our planet, killing the early blossoms, and destroying not only the fruit crop throughout the Union, but also the sugar crop of our beloved Louisiana.

Andrews abandoned the idea, gave up all thoughts of reaching the round of the artistic ladder, when his admiring countrymen would concede to him the unquestioned right of wearing the unappropriated mantle of a Michel Angelo or a Rubens.  He became practical.  The charming widow was flush of the “sordid lucre,” and, with true Jacksonian energy and will, he laid his plans for a transfer of the deposits, which he soon accomplished, and instead of erecting a villa on the banks of the Lake of Como with the widow’s funds, he established two daguerreotype saloons—one at No. 3 St. Charles street, and the other at No. 10, a few doors from the True Delta establishment. This was not all—the cup of the charming widow’s misery was not yet full—the last drop that overflows the golden goblet, like the last ounce that breaks the camel’s back, was poured in when the unfaithful Andrews deserted her, which he did a short time ago, and married a Miss. Hoffner.

We have now stated the case as it was yesterday morning, and will give the sequel in as few words as possible.

Mrs. Charles, it seems, made up her mind to wreak her vengeance on her faithless swain by assaulting him, and then end life’s troubles by killing herself.  She procured a beautiful pearl handled dagger, we believe at Guion’s , and crossed the street towards the entrance of No. 3 St. Charles street, intending to reach the daguerrean saloon of Andrews and strike him while in the act of transferring the features of some fair one to the metallic plate.  She met him on the sidewalk, and as quick as thought the glistening blade had pierced his neck. As he turned and reeled she inflicted two more wounds on his left arm, and before the by-standers that thronged the sidewalk at the time could interfere, she gave him another stab in the thigh, when the dagger dropped from her hand.  With the utmost coolness she then forced her way through the crowd, no one in  it attempting to interfere with her, and proceeded to a carriage in waiting at the next corner, and was driven rapidly to her home, No. 269 Common street.

At a late hour last night Andrews was still living and Mrs. Charles was at her home, no arrest or legal investigation that we could hear of having taken place.

1857 May 4.  Boston Daily Evening Transcript.  (Boston, Massachusetts.)  May 4, 1857, Vol. XXVIII, No. 8286, NP.

—James Andrews, a daguerreotypist, was stabbed at New Orleans on the 24th ult. By Mrs. Mary Ann Charles, whom he had deserted, and married another woman.  She struck him on the sidewalk, first in the neck with a dagger, then twice in the arm, then in the thigh.  The spectators, did not arrest her.

1857 May 12.  Bangor Daily Journal.  (Bangor, Maine.)  May 12, 1857, Vol. 3, No. 219, P. 2.

  A Woman’s Revenge.—James Andrews, a daguerreotypist of New Orleans, lived with Mrs. Mary Ann Charles two years without being married, then stole her money and married another woman.  On the 24 ult., Mrs. Charles procured a beautiful pearl handled dagger, and crossed the street, intending to reach the daguerrean saloon of Andrews and strike him while in the act of transferring the features of some fair one to the metallic plate.  She met him on the sidewalk, and quick as thought the glistening blade had pierced his neck.  As he turned and reeled, she inflicted two more wounds on his left arm, and before the bystanders that thronged the sidewalk, at the time, could interfere, she gave him another stab in the thigh, when the dagger dropped from her hand.  With the utmost coolness she then forced her way through the crowd, no one attempting to interfere with her, and proceeded to a carriage in waiting at the next corner, and was driven rapidly to her home.

Samuel E. Moore

Retailer, Stereoviews, , ,

1858                49 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Samuel E. Moore was recorded in one announcement and one advertisement in the Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana).  The announcement appeared on November 6, 1858. 

Stereoscopic.—One of the pleasantest, cheapest and most easily obtainable amusements for a family circle is a set of stereoscopic views.  They are beautiful specimens of the optician’s and daguerreotypist’s skill and taste, and afford never-wearying variety. 

Messrs. S. E. Moore & Co., 49 Camp street, have just received a fine assortment of these views which are more particularly described in their card elsewhere.

The advertisement first appeared on November 6, 1858.  Stereoscopic Views.  We have just received a fine assortment of these most elegant and instructive Parlor Ornaments, comprising of

Views in Paris.

Views in Rome.

Views in Switzerland.

Views in Vienna.

Views of Domestic Life, &c., &c., &c.

And of all qualities—upon Glass, Illustrated Paper and Plain.

The prices are very moderate, and no more desirable evening entertainment for the members of a family can be conceived than a study of these beautiful Scenes, which have the effect of transporting the observer to the very spot whence they were taken.  Sam’le E./ Moore & Co., 49 Camp street.

Samuel E. Moore is not recorded in other photographic directories.

McClure

Daguerreotypes, , , , ,

1853                6 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

McClure was mentioned in one advertisement that appeared on October 17, 1853 in the New Orleans Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Daguerreotypes.—The Daguerreotyping Saloon of Messrs. Dobbyns & Harrington, on the corner of Camp and Canal streets, are now in active operation under the superintendence of Mr. McClure, the acting Operator.  These rooms contain a large and well selected stock of materials for taking likenesses according to the most approve method, and the pictures taken give general satisfaction.  The operation is almost instantaneous, and the results in all cases a true type of the features, even to the slightest shades of expression.  The specimens exhibited at these rooms are of such a various character that a visit to them is equivalent to a stroll through an extensive picture gallery.  The operator, Mr. McClure, has brought the art of coloring the pictures to the nicest perfection, imparting a tint to the complexion exceedingly life-like, and in a manner always true to the reality.  Persons having relations and friends at a distance, or who wish to preserve the likenesses of those in whom they are interested, may here find a ready means for engraving their features on lasting materials, which are unchangeable, and which will not deteriorate through time.  Plates of every description may be obtained here, and on the most accommodating terms.  Strangers in the city should not fail to gratify their curiosity by paying these rooms a visit.

McClure is not recorded in other photographic directories as being active in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Craig’s Daguerreian Register does list a J. S. McClure in Mobile, Alabama in 1859.  It is unknown if they are the same person at this time.

J. G. Harroun

Daguerreotypes, ,

1853-1854       26 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

J. G. Harroun was recorded in three advertisements and two announcements.  The first advertisement ran from November 1, 1852 to February 13, 1854 in the New Orleans Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Sky-Light Daguerrean Saloon, No. 26 Camp street, New Orleans.—The undersigned having opened their Saloon at 26 Camp street, are prepared to execute Likenesses in every variety and style to suit their patrons.

The Ladies and Gentlemen of New Orleans, and strangers visiting the city, are requested to call and examine their specimens before procuring Likenesses elsewhere.  Perfect satisfaction given to all.  J. G. Harroun & Co.  n1.

The second advertisement ran from November 2 to December 3, 1853 in the Times Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana). J. G. Harroun & Co.’s Sky Light Daguerrean Saloon, No. 26 Camp street, corner Camp and Common.

Our Saloon has been fitted up in a superior style, and we are prepared to give Likenesses equal if not superior to any artist in the city.  Our motto is, “To give good Pictures or none.”  We invite all citizens and strangers to call, and think we can give satisfaction to each and every one. J. G. Harroun & Co.

The first announcement appeared on November 3, 1853 in the Times Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Photography.—J. G. Harroun & Co., have fitted up their daguerreotype saloon at the corner of camp and common street, in superior style, and engage to give likenesses equal, if not superior, to those taken by any artist in the city.  Citizens and strangers are invited to call.  See their advertisement.

The second announcement appeared on February 14, 1854 in the New Orleans Daily Crescent  (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Daguerreotypes.—Some of the best daguerreotypes obtainable in this city can be found at the saloon of J. G. Harroun & Co., 26 Camp street.  The likenesses taken by them are very accurate and do not fade.

The third advertisement ran from February 14 to May 11, 1854 in the New Orleans Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Sky-Light Daguerrean Saloon, No. 26 Camp street, New Orleans.—The undersigned having opened their Saloon at 26 Camp street, are prepared to execute Likenesses in every variety and style to suit their patrons.

The Ladies and Gentlemen of New Orleans, and strangers visiting the city, are requested to call and examine their specimens before procuring Likenesses elsewhere.  Perfect satisfaction given to all.  J. G. Harroun & Co.  feb14.

J. G. Harroun is not recorded in other photographic directories.

Mr. Giroux

Photographs, , ,

1854                Mechanics’ Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1856                142 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Mr. Giroux was recorded in three announcements and two advertisements in the partnership of Giroux & Hirsch.   The first announcement was recorded on December 27, 1854 in the New Orleans Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Destructive Fire—The Mechanics Institute in Ruins.—Last evening about 6 o’clock, a fire broke out in the rear part of the basement of the Mechanics’ Institute, on the Philippa street front of University Square, and in little more than a hour’s time the splendid edifice was reduced to a pile of smoking ruins; nothing being left standing but the front and portions of the side walls…

The Repository of Arts and Sciences, kept in one of the rooms by Mr. Brocket, lost every thing—valued at about $3000.  Mr. Truehols, the portrait and picture painter, occupying another room, lost every thing.  One picture alone, of large size, which he had nearly finished entitled “The Crucifixion,” he valued at [$3000].  Mr. Giroux, the photographist, occupying the from=nt room of the floor, opposite the library, lost every thing.  He had just finished fitting up at an expenditure of $2500.  Mr. Gomes who kept a cabinet making and repairing shop on the ground floor, under Mr. Giroux’s room, also lost his all—about $1000 worth…

The second announcement (same as the first) appeared on December 27, 1854 Times-Picayune.  (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Burning of the Mechanics’ Institute.  We regret to state that this noble building, one of the city’s proudest ornaments, was destroyed by fire last evening…   

Mr. Giroux, who had just established rooms for practicing the art of photography, lost about $2,500.

The third announcement (same as the first) appeared on January 5, 1855 in The New York Herald (New York, New York).  Burning of the Mechanics’ Institute, at New Orleans.  [From the New Orleans Picayune, Dec. 27.]  We regret to state that this noble building, one of the city’s proudest ornaments, was destroyed by fire last evening…Mr. Giroux, who had just established rooms for practicing the art of photography, lost about $2,500.

The first advertisement was appeared on April 23,1856 in the Semi-Weekly Creole (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Heliographic Gallery.  Portraits Drawn in a few Seconds by the Attraction of the Light.  Giroux & Hirsch. No. 142 Canal street, between Bourbon and Dauphin streets.

Messrs. Giroux & Hirsch, Heliographs, Informs the public that their Saloon and Studio are now opened, at 142 Canal street, where visitors will be gladly received.

They avail themselves of this opportunity to call the attention of amateurs to their improvement, in New Orleans to Heliographic Portraits, and present, to be compared with what has been done heretofore in the line, the proof Portraits exhibited in their gallery.

Messrs. G. & H. announce, besides, that with a view to the popularity of their art, the prices of their Portraits, whether black or colored, will be very moderate.  mh5.

The second advertisement (same as the first) was recorded July 1 to September 12, 1856 in the   New Orleans Daily Creole (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Heliographic Gallery.  Portraits Drawn in a few Seconds by the Attraction of the Light.  Giroux & Hirsch. No. 142 Canal street, between Bourbon and Dauphin streets.

Messrs. Giroux & Hirsch, Heliographs, Informs the public that their Saloon and Studio are now opened, at 142 Canal street, where visitors will be gladly received.

They avail themselves of this opportunity to call the attention of amateurs to their improvement, in New Orleans to Heliographic Portraits, and present, to be compared with what has been done heretofore in the line, the proof Portraits exhibited in their gallery.

Messrs. G. & H. announce, besides, that with a view to the popularity of their art, the prices of their Portraits, whether black or colored, will be very moderate.  mh5.

Mr. Giroux is recorded in other directories as being in the partnership only.  First names are not known at this time.  There is an advertisement for Leon Giroux, 142 Canal Street for Fancy Shoes the same address as the partnership.  It is unknown if this is the same person.  No additional advertisements have been located at this time for Hirsch.  Hirsch is recorded in Craig’s Daguerreian Registry as a “painter of photographs” which led me into looking at The New York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists In America 1564-1860.  There is one listing for Siegfried Hirsch, miniature and portrait painted who was active in New York City as a miniature painter from 1851-1855; then he went to Charleston, South Carolina; and by 1857 he was back in New York City. It is also unknown if he is the same person.

John H. Frobus

Daguerreotypes, ,

1852                72 Chartres Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

John H. Frobus appeared in one announcement on November 19, 1852 in the New Orleans Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana). 

From woman’s eyes this doctrine I derive:

The are the books, the art, the academies

Which show, contain, and nourish all the world.

Had Mahomet heard of daguerreotypes, he might have propagated his doctrines all the faster by showing the portrait of his Celestial Houris!  By the buy, Frobus, 72 Chartres street, is very successful in that all important feature of a daguerreotype likeness—the eye.

John H. Frobus is recorded in Craig’s Daguerreian Registry as being active in New Orleans, Louisiana  between 1855 to 1861.

A. Cosmes

Daguerreotypes, Photographs, , , ,

1854                1 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

A. Cosmes (of the partnership of Moissenet & Cosmes) was recorded in one Advertisement that ran from December 25 to 30, 1854[1] in the New Orleans Daily Crescent  (New Orleans, Louisiana).  Moissenet & Cosmes’s Daguerrean and Photographic Gallery, No. 1 Camp Street, corner of Canal.

F. Moissenet has the honor of informing the citizens of New Orleans and Strangers, that he has formed a business connection with Mr. A. Cosmes, a Photographist and Painter of European celebrities, and has opened expressly for the purpose of taking Photographic Portraits and Miniatures in the same building in which Daguerreotype Rooms are, by which means both branches will be under his personal care and direction.  He invites particular attention to his new and perfect mode of taking Portraits by which the physiognomy and coloring of nature becomes indelibly transferred in such a manner as cannot fail to present a true and exact copy of all the features and expressions of life—a fac simile of nature.

The Rooms are always open to the public, who are invited to examine the various specimens there exhibited. d25.

A. Cosmes is not recorded in other photographic directories.

[1] No newspapers were found between December 31, 1854 to July 1, 1855.

J. W. Bradford

Daguerreotypes, , , , , ,

1852-1853       80 Camp Street corner Natchez Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

J. W. Bradford of the firm Curtright & Bradford was recorded in two advertisements and one additional time by himself in the New Orleans Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana).  The first advertisement ran from June 18 to September 18, 1852.  80 Camp Street.  N. B. Curtright…J. B. Bradford.  We have taken the room over Geo. W. Hynson, corner of Natches and Camp street, for the prosecution of the Daguerreotype Business, and our charges—being half the usual prices—induce us to hope for a liberal patronage.

Hours of operation from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M.  Curtwright & Bradford, Artists. 

The second advertisement ran from September 28 1852 to February 11, 1853.  N. B. Curtright.  J. W. Bradford.  Curtright & Bradford, Daguerrean Artists, No. 80 Camp street, corner Natchez. 

The third advertisement ran from February 12 to May 9, 1853.  Bradford, J. W., Daguerrean Artist, No. 80 Camp street, corner Natchez.  sept. 28.

J. W. Bradford is not recorded in other photographic directories.  N. B. Curtright with a variant spelling Curtwright is known and recorded in other photographic directories.

Yearout & Lipman

Daguerreian Stock and Materials, Daguerreotypes, , , , , , , , , ,

1851-1852       Water Street, over the Insurance Office, Evansville, Indiana.

Yearout & Lipman (John T. Yearout & Lewis S. Lipman) were recorded in one advertisement that ran from November 8, 1851 to June 15, 1852in The Evansville Daily Journal.  (Evansville, Indiana).  Dobyns & Co.’s Daguerreotype Galleries.

No. 489 Main Street, Louisville, Ky.

No. 1 Fowlke’s Row, Memphis, Tenn.

Nos. 6 & 23 Camp Street, New Orleans.

Corner 4th and Chestnut sts, St. Louis, Mo.

J. T. Yearout & L. S. Lipman, of the above firm would respectfully inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Evansville and the public generally, that they have taken Rooms on Water st., over Insurance office, and that they are permanently located at Evansville, in the Daguerrean Rooms formerly occupied by Gove & Widney, where one of them may be found at all hours of the day, ready and prepared to take Likenesses of all sizes and descriptions, to exhibit specimens of their work, sell stock, give instruction in the art and wait upon all who may favor them with a call.

N. B.—All work done by them will be warranted to give perfect satisfaction or no charge made.

Constantly on hand a full supply of Daguerreotype Stock for sale.

The above rooms are now furnished and open.  All are invited to call and examine for themselves.  While Thomas Jefferson Dobyns; John T. Yearout & Lewis S. Lipman are all recorded in other directories this entry provides additional information previously unrecorded.