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by Joel Emmons Whitney, photographer

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Saint Paul: J. E. Whitney, ca. mid-1860s. All are albumen prints, all approx. 4 x 2½ , condition is generally fine. Joel Emmons Whitney 1822-1886 of Whitney's Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota, photographed from 1851 to 1871. Born in Maine, Whitney was the first photographer in St. Paul, and began working first with daguerreotypes and then as a wet plate photographer. During the early years of the Civil War, Whitney photographed many Minnesota

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