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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Benjamin Franklin Upton

Names:
Other: B.F. Upton 
Dates:  1818, 3 August - 1910, 31 December
Born:  US, ME
Died:  US, CT, Fairfield
Active:  US
 
  
Stereoscopic photographer, backlists on stereoviews. Active: Minneapolis, Minn. 
  
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Minneapolis, MN, US 
St. Anthony, MN, US 
Jacksonville, FL, US 
St. Augustine, FL, US 
 
  
[5-9] *[Benjamin Franklin Upton]; "Made and Published by..."; "Photographer"; "Minnesota and North West Views", B/Ls, 300+ MN scy. on RMs, many sold by Martins Art Gallery, St. Paul; "Views of the Upper Mississippi"; "...'s Florida Views", Winter Park, Lake Osceola, etc., 71-80s; later views pub. and sold by Ashmead Bros., Jacksonville, FL. B. 8/3/18, Dixmont, ME; D. after 99; started Brunswick, ME, as daguerreotypist 47; moved to Bath, ME 51; to St. Anthony, MN 56; settled at Big Lake; major pioneer photog. specializing in landscape scenes and stereographs; moved to St. Augustine, FL 75; made views of state for over 20 years; in partnership with Bolles, Jacksonville, FL, 70s. Listed Minneapolis summers 71-80s; listed in Jacksonville and St. Augustine 70s-90s. 
  
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association)
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others.
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