L. B. Foote

{{Short description|Canadian photographer}}

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| name = L. B. Foote

| birth_name = Lewis Benjamin Foote

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1873|2|6}}

| birth_place = Foote's Cove, Pardy's Island, Burin Newfoundland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|4|22|1873|2|6}}

| death_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

| occupation = Photographer

| nationality = Canadian

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Lewis Benjamin Foote (February 6, 1873 – April 22, 1957) was a Canadian photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of early Winnipeg, including royal visits, the Winnipeg General Strike, and slums.

He was born on February 6, 1874, in Foote's Cove, Pardy's Island, Burin, Newfoundland, and worked on the Summerside Journal where he first became a photographer. He moved to Winnipeg in 1902, where he became the city's best known commercial photographer.{{cite web |url=http://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/imagining-winnipeg |title=Imagining Winnipeg | University of Manitoba Press |publisher=Uofmpress.ca |date= |accessdate=2012-09-22}} For more than half a century his photographs chronicled the development of the city. He is most well known for his photographs of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike{{cite web|author=Gordon Goldsborough |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/foote_lb.shtml |title=Memorable Manitobans: Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) |publisher=Mhs.mb.ca |date=2008-03-08 |accessdate=2012-09-22}} and was active until 1947.