William Bell

(1830-1910)

    William H. Bell (1830 – January 28, 1910) was an English-born American photographer in the latter half of the 19th century. Many of his photographs documenting war-time diseases and combat injuries were published in the medical book, Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, and he took photographs of western landscapes taken as part of the Wheeler expedition in 1872. In his later years, he wrote articles on the dry plate process and other techniques for various photography journals.

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    Projects

    Ancient ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M. In a niche 50 feet above present Cañon bed,1873; Photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
    Wheeler Survey

    Western U.S. landscapes and geological features taken during expeditions from 1871–1873.

    Books

    One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan

    (Smart Museum of Art, 2006)