Bennett, H.H. “Stringing Along with H.H. Bennett” in American Heritage 30:6 (October/November 1979), 100-107.

Henry Hamilton Bennett's 1886 photographs of logging on the Wisconsin River.  Bennett's studio in Wisconsin Dells is now a historic site. Entire issue. Hardcover, illustrated boards, not issued with dust jacket, fine.

Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843–1908) was an American landscape photographer and technological innovator whose striking stereoscopic imagery popularized the natural sandstone formations of the Wisconsin Dells, transforming the region into a major national tourist destination. Born in Canada and raised in Vermont and Wisconsin, Bennett served in the Union Army during the Civil War, suffering a severe hand injury that led him to pursue photography upon his return. Establishing a studio in Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells) in 1865, he designed custom portable equipment and specialized in outdoor landscape photography, capturing dramatic rock formations, river channels, and local Ho-Chunk Native Americans. An inventive technical pioneer, Bennett developed a revolving camera for panoramic landscapes and invented a instantaneous snatch shutter in 1886; this allowed him to capture instantaneous action shots, most famously demonstrated in his iconic photograph Leaping the Chasm at Stand Rock, which depicted his son mid-air leaping between rock pillars. Bennett operated his studio until his death, leaving behind a legacy as a master of 19th-century landscape visual storytelling and an essential figure in early American technical photography.