| The Ugly Sisters
Here's Pat, from the Civil War Era. I wonder if Saturday Night Live saw this picture when they came up with the Pat character. You guess male or female. All in all this is a very nice sixth plate Ruby Ambrotype.
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Unmounted CDV of a young woman only known as Miss Edmonds. Her name is the only on the back.
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 Both of these images have the same backmark and could possibly be sisters. There seems to be some facial similarities.
Backmark is Frederick Gutekunst Jr. was a daguerreian from 1857-1860 in Philadelphia, Pa. Gutekunst and Brother, with Lewis Gutekunst. From 1854 to 1860 the firm was listed at 706 Arch Street. Before entering into photography as a full time business, he succeeded in making copper electrotype plates from daguerreotypes. He obtained his first daguerreotype camera by trading an electrical battery to Dr. Isaac Norris for it, and then he got a better lens for the camera from a photographer known as the "Buckeye Blacksmith". Born in 1831 in Germantown, Pa., Frederick experimented early with the daguerreian process, and opened a gallery with his brother Lewis in 1856.
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R. R. Curry
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Unmounted tin type of middle age women.
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  Kitty Ames The photographers name has been scratched out by some one,
but he was from New York City. His address is 681 Broadway.
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Backmark reads: Gihon (John L.Gihon) & Rixon He is listed as a daguerreian with E.R. Morgan & Co. at the same address between 1859-1860. At sometime after 1860 he went into business Rixon. I have been unable to find any information on Rixon.
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