Old Bridge at the Narrows Dells of the Wisconsin

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Old Bridge at the Narrows Dells of the Wisconsin

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Henry Hamilton Bennett

American Photographer · 1843–1908

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His right hand crippled from a wound suffered during the Civil War and seeking a new career, Henry Hamilton Bennett bought a photographic studio in his hometown of Kilbourn, Wisconsin (later renamed Wisconsin Dells). He built most of his own equipment, from his camera to a stereograph-mounting machine. Ever the inventor, he developed an instantaneous shutter that allowed him to stop action and bui

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Date
about 1865–1875
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
438b732c-9a7f-4fd0-817a-1df412bb9a47

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View of a wooden bridge that crosses the narrows of the Wisconsin River. The rock formations that make up the Wisconsin Dells line both sides of the river, and provide the foundation for the bridge abutment.

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