The H. H. Bennett Studio

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The H. H. Bennett Studio 141 STREhSCOME DELLS QUES LANE LH. BENNETT, ER RELICS DS STUDIO Densts FF FOUNDED 1865 THE BENNETT STUDIO TODAY BENNETT %24 LI

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5 - THE H. H. BENNETT STUDIO Oldest in Wisconsin The Studio was founded by the late H. H. Bennett, a young Civil War veteran, in 1865. The present quarters were built in 1875 and remodeled in 1917. Since its beginning it has been continuously operated by members of the same family as a landscape and portrait studio. During the lifetime of H. H. Bennett, until his death in 1908, most of his time, effort and artistic ability were employed in landscape photo- graphy. He built all his cameras, constantly devising improvements such as fast shutters for stop-action pictures. With these homemade cameras he made memorable views of Milwaukee, St. Paul and the bluff country of the upper Mississippi valley, but most of his photographs show the Dells of the Wisconsin and the nearby country. For over forty years he spent many days in the Dells trying to capture the best possible view of every interesting spot. Luckily the stereoscopic, or three dimension, photograph was very popular at the time, and the sale of Bennett's stereographs of the Dells had a great influence in bringing travelers to the Dells in the early days. Now the Bennett Studio is a century old and its opera- tion has covered changes in photographic methods from wet plates to color photography, and from head clamps to speed lights. A small museum at the Studio, open to the public, shows much of the equipment used by Mr. Bennett in capturing his incomparable views. These photographs, old and yet ever new, may still be purchased at the Bennett Studio. "the man with the camera" • H. H. BENNETT STUDIO, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin • 100 YEARS Thank 1865 1965 B204 STUDIO