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This Day in Minnesota History

January 24, 1848

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Photographer Edward A. Bromley is born in New Haven, Connecticut. Considered the first regular newspaper staff photographer in the United States, Bromley would be connected with the Minneapolis Journal and the Minneapolis Times and would emphasize the importance of photographs in illustrating news stories and chronicling historic events. He died in 1925.

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