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Ruby Ambrotype
A020

Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case
Colour

1/6
ca 1859-1860
Allentown PA, USA
Unknown
Mrs. Louis
Half case
Light tinting

"Cooke & Emerson patent applied for – providence Ri"

"Allentown 411
Mrs Louis, Strasbourgh
Penn (...)
10/12 6/20"

Made in Allentown Pa. The sitter is Mrs Louis from Stroudsburg Pa.

There were 4 photographers listed in Allentown in 1860:
Sidney W. Berkholdt
S. W. Burcaw
Benjamin Lochman
L. A. Bobst

Possibly from the same studio, perhaps her daughter: