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Julius Caesar Strauss (July 1857 – 1924) known professionally as J. C. Strauss was an American photographer who was known as an internationally-renowned craftsman and the most famous photographer in St. Louis Missouri at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Cleveland Ohio this penniless son of a Bavarian-born tailor left home and sneaked into St. Louis in 1876. By the 1890s he had built a gallery.