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Names: | Born: William Henry Illingworth Other: Illingworth Other: William H. Illingwoth Joint: Illingworth & Bill
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| Dates: | 1844, 20 September - 1893 | Born: | England, Leeds | Active: | US | Stereoscopic photographer, backlists on stereoviews. Active: Dakota Terr.
English photographer who accompanied both Captain James L. Fisk's 1866 expedition to the Montana Territory and Lt. Colonel George Custer's 1874 U.S. military expedition into the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory (now western South Dakota).
Stereographs project Business locations St. Paul, MN, US [6-8] *[William H. Illingworth; also in
partnership with McLeish in St. Paul, 70-80 &
Byron Gurnsey in 60-70s] "Photographer";
"Seller"; "Published by..."; 517 North St.; 3
East 7th; and 111 E. 7th; "Photographs of Lake
Superior Scenery" on CMs; "Minnesota & Upper
Mississippi River", on RMs; "Stereographs of
Minnesota Scenery"; "Stereographs of the Black
Hills", 55 views of Custer's exped., etc. on
RMs; "Views along the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad"; some may have come from other
workers such as Caswell & Davy. B/Ls, ~900
regional views; some pub. under own label, some
by Flower & Hawkins, Burrit & Pease, Huntington
& Co., etc. B. 42, D. 93; listed in St. Paul
60-80. MAJOR COLLS.: 226 glass negs copied onto film; ref. prints avail. at MN Hist. Soc.,
Minneapolis Public Lib., & SD State Hist. Soc.
Film copies split among these socs., prints
avail. from whichever one holds negs of your
area of interest. 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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