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Ramsey County History – Spring 1967: “Restless, Troubled Opportunist: Portrait of a Pioneer Photographer”

Restless, Troubled Opportunist: Portrait of a Pioneer Photographer Author: Henry Hall William H. Illingworth, born 1844, came to St. Paul in 1850 and became a professional photographer in 1867. A pioneer of outdoor wet-plate photography, he went on an expedition with Custer in 1874, then illicitly sold…