Devil's Elbow Dells of the Wisconsin

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Devil's Elbow 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

View of the Wisconsin Dells and the Wisconsin River that runs through it. Two onlookers wearing hats sit on the rock formation along the riverbank and watch a steamboat floating along the surface.

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