1856                Kelley’s Rooms, over Broot & Curtis’s Land Office, St. Anthony, Minnesota.

Rufus F. Elliot appeared in one advertisement on November 27, 1856 in the Minnesota Republican (Minneapolis, Minnesota).  R. F. Elliot, Daguerrean Artist.  In Kelley’s Rooms, over Brott & Curtis’s Land Office, St. Anthony, Minnesota.

Miniatures neatly inserted in Pins and Lockets.  Also Landscape views in the most improved style, colors excepted.  January 7th, [1856.]

Rufus F. Elliot is recorded in Pioneer Photographers From The Mississippi To The Continental Divide A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865 and Craig’s Daguerreian Registry (as Rufus Elliott).  The date of the advertisement January 7, is probably 1856, only one newspaper was available.