Amazing original albumen photo of Helena Montana during the late Territory days. Snowfall scene. First Methodist Church re-construction in the background dates it to around 1887.  The photo is from the Keller studio, he had no idea what he was doing artistically but after cutting strangers hair in Helena for a few years he struck up a friendship with Arthur Canning who did happen to know his stuff. Canning and Keller, who were notoriously difficult to get along with soon parted company and Canning went off to make some amazing photos of Montana on his own. Keller would purchase other works early on and shift them through his studio. This location can still be easily reached, an unpaved road leads right to the spot above where an old outhouse once stood. Amazing to compare then to now.The condition is awsome....however it had been tacked in the top center....no image issue and on the very lower left corner, again no issue or deterrent. Please see photos. Signed by E.A.Keller on the back and stamped with the classical M.T. signifying the territorial status. The signature is the only pencil mark to be found.Original estate find, not scanned or copied. Only photos taken with cellphone for listing and copymarked by eBay.The following data on Emil D. Keller was compiled from Polk Directories and census records. It seems Emil was twice married, once in Indiana, in about 1873 and second in 1889 in Helena Montana. While in Indiana (1880 Census) Emil was working as a Barber and between 1884 85 he had moved to Helena where he continued in the barber trade, experimenting with amature photography. By 1888 he had a studio and photographers working under him. By the early half of the century the Montana census records in Lewis & Clarke & Jefferson Counties he was listed as a Photographer and owned his own Studio.