Benjamin Franklin Upton

Benjamin Franklin Upton (born August 3, 1818 – after 1901) was a photographer who produced stereoscopic views in the United States, especially of natural features, architectural sights, pineries (logging operations) and recreational endeavors around the Minneapolis, St. Anthony, and Saint Paul area and its surroundings. Some of the images were labelled "Upton's Views".

Minneapolis

Stereoscopic photograph of St. Paul from the Park Place Hotel

Upton was born in Dixmont, Maine.[1] He began his photographic career working with daguerreotypes in Brunswick, and patented both a mercury bath technique and a device for polishing plates for use in the daguerreotype process.[2]

The Minnesota Historical Society and the Library of Congress have collections of albumen prints of his work.[3][4] A carte de visite of his photo of Wa-kan-o-zhan-zhan (Medicine Bottle), one of the leaders of the Dakota War of 1862, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.[5]

Gallery

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  Dells of the St. Croix
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  Falls of St. Anthony
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  Board sluice at the Falls of St. Anthony
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  Park Place Hotel

See also

• Truman Ward Ingersoll

References

1. Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (2005). Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804740579.
2. "Benjamin Franklin Upton daguerreotype, ca. 1855". Maine Memory Network. Maine Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2018-12-22.
3. "B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Upton: An Inventory of His Reserve Album at the Minnesota Historical Society" (Finding aid). Minnesota Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06.
4. "Stereographs of Minnesota photographed by B. F. Upton". Library of Congress. LCCN 2005684383.
5. "Wa-kan-o-zhan-zhan ('Medicine Bottle')". National Portrait Gallery. NPG Ax68180.