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St. Anthony Falls

Artist Joel E. Whitney (American, 1822 - 1886)
Dateca. 1865
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 1/16 × 1 inches (15.4 × 2.54 cm)
Mount: 9 15/16 × 12 inches (25.24 × 30.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.534
InscribedOn mount verso, upper right corner, in pencil: " [?] / May 23 1866 / Falls at St Anthony / Minn / 10 miles from St. Paul".
MarkingsOn mount recto, bottom, in gold type: "WHITNEYS, Gallery St Paul, Min."
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionOval image of falls with broken stones in the foreground and a city in the background near the shoreline.
Published References
Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn, Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide, A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005): 629-32.
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