Henry Hamilton Bennett
Logan Monument, Lake Front Park, from the series "Chicago and Vicinity"
1887
Bennett's stereo photograph captures another significant Chicago monument during the city's ambitious period of civic beautification. The albumen print documents how the rapidly growing metropolis used public sculpture to honor its Civil War heroes and establish cultural legitimacy.
- Medium
- Albumen print, stereo
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Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top, from the series "Chicago and Vicinity"
1893
Looking in at West entrance, by Electric light, No. 1550 from the series "St. Paul Ice Carnival"
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View of the C.M. & St. Paul Railway, near Hastings, No. 1509 from the series "Among the Bluff Scenery of the Upper Mississippi"
1870
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