Benjamin Franklin Upton


Benjamin Franklin Upton was a photographer who produced stereoscopic views in the United States, especially of natural features, architectural sights, pineries and recreational endeavors around the Minneapolis, St. Anthony, and St. Paul area and its surroundings. Some of the images were labelled Upton's Views.
He was born in Dixmont, Maine.
He began his photographic career working with daguerreotypes in Brunswick, Maine. The Minnesota Historical Society has a collection of his work. The Library of Congress also possesses some of his work. His photo of Wa-kan-o-zhan-zhan is in the collection of the
National Portrait Gallery.
Upton worked with daguerreotype and patented a mercury bath technique and device for polishing plates.

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