Old Spanish Cathedral, St. Augustine, Florida stereoview ca. 1885

Upton's Florida Views, [ca. 1897]. Stereoview albumen print 3.5" x 6.5" on 4.25" x 7" paperboard mount; numbered 60 in the negative. One in a series of St. Augustine stereoviews in Upton's Florida Views series. On the verso is a detailed listing of his five series of Florida photographs, "from the Stereoscopic to the largest Photographs made." The Smithsonian Institution offers the following note on Upton: "Benjamin Franklin Upton (1818-after 1901) was a daguerreotypist, photographer, and inventor. He began his career making daguerreotypes in Brunswick, Maine, (circa 1844-1847) then opened a gallery in Bath, Maine, where he obtained several patents for inventions and products associated with daguerreotyping. Upton and his family moved to St. Anthony, Minnesota, in 1856, where he photographed at American Indian agencies nearby, including the Chippewa and Winnebago agencies and Dakota prisoners at Fort Snelling after the 1862 uprising. He copyrighted the series Upton's Collection of Photographic Views in 1865. Upton moved to Florida in 1875." CONDITION: Good, light toning and rubbing on paperboard, left image tonality higher than right image.