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Lundy,WI - Winnebago County - c1880s-1890s - Winnebago Miss Tanning a Deerskin Stereoview :

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Lundy,WI - Winnebago County - c1880s-1890s - Winnebago Miss Tanning a Deerskin Stereoview :
Captioned “Among the Winnebago Indians, Squaw Tanning a Deerskin,” this is #483 in photographer H.H. Bennett’s series “Wandering Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery.” It shows a young woman in traditional dress, holding a sharpened stick, standing next to a deerskin stretched to dry between two sapling poles. Behind her is a crude lodging. H.H. Bennett enjoyed a stunning career as Wisconsin’s “photographer extraordinaire” between the years 1865-1908, primarily documenting every aspect of Wisconsin’s Dells. “My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography,” Bennett is quoted as saying in his new biography by Sara Rath (H.H. Bennett, Photographer, His American Landscape, 2010). [Ref: www.uwpress.wisc.edu/books ]. He travelled as well to Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis, taking wonderful photos of the offerings of those locations, including state buildings and private residences used in the World Columbia Exposition of 1893. Perhaps his major contribution to photography, however, lies not in the Wisconsin Dells and those images he created for posterity, but to his technical innovations. His development of a stop-action shutter and a revolving solar printing house—now housed at the Smithsonian Institution—was a legacy for others to follow. This photo has excellent focus and contrast. Gold colored matte. 3.5 x 7."