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of his friends in the back of the drug store. Gutekunst's brother, Louis, was a barber and helped financially support
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published by D. Appleton & Co. of New York. Also, Gutekunst began to use what we would now call a panoramic camera which took a photo of one hundred and eighty degrees and from which the studio could produce a print thirty-six inches in length.
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Gutekunst means "good art" in German. Most sources list Gutekunst's place of birth as Philadelphia. However, his obituary in the Photographic Journal of America lists Gutekunst's birthplace as Germany.
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made from seven negatives. It was described as the largest photograph in the world at the time. His panoramic photograph won him medals from
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He worked for two years at a drug store in
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Frederick's father noticed his son's interest in chemistry and found an internship for him with a pharmacist, Frederick Klett. Gutekunst undertook a four-year apprenticeship with Klett and graduated from the
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also came to have their photographic portraits taken by
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555:"Frederick Gutekunst and the Art of Photography"
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