Henry Hamilton (H.H.) Bennett (1843-1908) became one of the country’s foremost landscape photographers after beginning his career in Kilbourn City, now Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, in 1865 at age 22 despite little formal education and a damaged right hand. While his first wife Frankie ran the studio business, he photographed the surrounding landscape, often producing stereoscopic 3D views that became widely popular in the late 1800s. As his photographs circulated, people began traveling to see the unusual rock formations along this stretch of the Wisconsin River, and his steady promotion helped Wisconsin Dells tourism grow over the years. After his death in 1908, his family continued the photographic work and carefully preserved his negatives and other artifacts in the H.H. Bennett Studio, built in 1875. Given by the family to the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1998, the studio remained one of the oldest still functioning photography studios in the United States and also the oldest family owned photography studio. Bennett often used formations such as Stand Rock and Visor Ledge for group and family portraits, posed people in landscape photographs to show the scale of the rocks, photographed family picnics at Luncheon Hall, recorded the Demon’s Anvil more than 100 years ago before later erosion, and captured a famous stop-action image of his son Ashley leaping to Stand Rock in 1888.