Giants Hand, in the Navy Yard. [Wisconsin Dells]

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Giants Hand, in the Navy Yard. [Wisconsin Dells]

Creator

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 1870–1890
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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