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Description

Wonderful early landscape photograph of St. Paul, Minnesota, by William H. Illingworth.

The bird's-eye view looks east down 4th Street in present-day downtown St. Paul. The caption mentions Winslow House (burned in 1862) and the (second) St. Paul Cathedral, which was completed in 1858.

Illingworth is probably best known today for his work on the 1874 Custer Expedition to the Black Hills. Illingworth failed to provide Captain Ludlow with the required number of plates of images he took on the expedition and it became a matter of legal dispute.

Illingworth's images of the 1874 expedition remained in his possession until his death and were later rediscovered in his attic.

Provenance

Minnesota Historical Society; accessioned before 1940 and deaccessioned thereafter.

Condition Description
Large albumen print mounted on early board. Some abrasions within the image retouched. Manuscript caption onlaid below. The silvering effect in the lower margins is greatly exaggerated by the process of digitizing the image. Card backing with damage and loss to the lower-right corner, as illustrated.