Photograph album of scenes and views in Minnesota

Description

Title: Photograph album of scenes and views in Minnesota
Published / Created: [1865-1875].
Publication Place: St. Paul, Minn
Publisher: Whitney's Gallery
Abstract: Cartes-de-visite photographs depicting Minnesota scenes and views, including the falls of Minnehaha, the falls of St. Anthony, Fort Snelling, Silver Cascade fall, Pulpit Rock, an ox cart on the Red River of the North, and Sioux women winnowing wheat
Description: Ten photographs carry contemporary ink captions on the photographs in addition to printed captions which appear on all cards.
Bound in a contemporary maroon calf "wallet" album, with "XXI" marked on spine in white ink.
Eleven photographs are by Whitney's Gallery. Two are by John P. Soule, Boston. One is by J.E. Tilton & Co., Boston. Two others carry no imprint.
Provenance: Ex libris Frank T. Siebert. Purchased from Sotheby's on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 1999.
Extent: 1 album (16 cartes-de-visite photographic prints) :
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Portraits
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Photographic prints
Card photograph albums
Material: b & w.
Subject (Geographic): Minnesota
Minnehaha Falls (Minn.)
Fort Snelling (Minn.)
Saint Anthony Falls (Minn.)
Subject (Name): Whitney, Joel E.
Subject (Topic): Dakota Indians
Subjects: Siebert, Frank T. > Ownership
Whitney, Joel E.
Minnesota > Pictorial works
Minnehaha Falls (Minn.) > Pictorial works
Fort Snelling (Minn.) > Pictorial works
Saint Anthony Falls (Minn.) > Pictorial works
Dakota Indians > Portraits

Access: Public
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Citation: Photograph Album of Scenes and Views in Minnesota. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.