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Canadian photographer (1861–1943)

Minna Keene, née Töneböne, (5 February 1859 – November 1943) was a German-born, self-taught Canadian pictorial portrait photographer, considered "hugely successful".^[1]

Keene was born in Rumbeck, Waldeck, now part of the city of Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany, in 1859.

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She lived in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Canada. She married Caleb Keene in 1887.^[2] She died in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, in 1943.

Keene was an early female member of the Linked Ring,^[3] a photographic society created to show that photography was just as much an art as it was a science, and to propel photography further into the fine art world.

She was also a member of the London Salon of Photograp