Edwin Whitefield collection 1884-[1890] Whitefield, Edwin collection

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Edwin Whitefield collection 1884-[1890] Whitefield, Edwin collection

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2555whi?rgn=main;view=text

This collection is made up of manuscript essays and writings, original artwork, and printed proof sheets by Edwin Whitefield, an artist who specialized in bird's-eye views and landscapes in North America. The manuscripts largely concern Whitefield's travels in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakota Territory, as well as Whitefield's interest in the Bible.

Approximately 200 items

eng,

William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391396

William L. Clements Library

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Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892

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Edwin Whitefield was born in England in 1816, immigrating to the United States ca. 1840. Between 1840 and 1855, he studied and taught drawing in New York and New England. In the latter 1850s, he became a real estate speculator in the Minnesota territory and became involved in land and and townsite promotion in what is now Kandiyohi County and the Sauk River Valley, Minn. Between 1860 and 1864 he lived in Chicago, but spent his final years in Massachusetts until his death in 1892. Edwin's son Wil...