Summary Information

Title: H.H. Bennett Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1790s-1998 (bulk 1856-1998)

Creator:

• Bennett, H. H. (Henry Hamilton), 1843-1908

Call Number: Mss 935; Micro 2073; Audio 1440A; M2000-136; M2006-057

Quantity: 32.0 cubic feet (50 archives boxes, 37 card boxes, 8 flat boxes, and 1 tube), 16 tape recordings and 8 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 0.3 cubic feet and 2 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of H.H. Bennett, mainly from 1856 to 1998, a pioneer landscape photographer whose major body of work was created in the Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, together with records of his studio, and papers of various members of his extended family. When the Bennett Studio closed in 1998 to become an historic site owned by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, it was the oldest American photographic studio in continuous operation, having been operated by Bennett and by four generations of the Bennett Family. The papers contain: Bennett's personal and professional papers including correspondence and diaries detailing his service during the Civil War; studio records documenting the studio's portrait and commercials work as well as the museum run by the studio promoting Bennett's legacy and the ownership of Minirama (a model railroad attraction); and family papers.

Language: English, Siouan languages

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00935

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