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Henry Hamilton Bennett — Eastern end of Mount Zion or City of David, from the series "The Chicago Panorama of The Crucifixion"

Henry Hamilton Bennett

Eastern end of Mount Zion or City of David, from the series "The Chicago Panorama of The Crucifixion"

1893

Bennett's stereo photography documents the meticulous historical recreation of ancient Jerusalem's topography for Chicago audiences. The albumen print preserves the ambitious scale of these educational entertainments that brought distant biblical lands into vivid, three-dimensional reality.

Medium
Albumen print, stereo

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Henry Hamilton Bennett, Eastern end of Mount Zion or City of David, from the series "The Chicago Panorama of The Crucifixion", 1893

Bennett's stereo photography documents the meticulous historical recreation of ancient Jerusalem's topography for Chicago audiences. The albumen print preserves the ambitious scale of these educational entertainments that brought distant biblical lands into vivid, three-dimensional reality.

Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Year
1893
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Monochrome, Albumen Print, Documentary, 19th Century, American, Photograph, Landscape, Religious, Historical, Stereoview

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