William Bell (photographer)

Not to be confused with William Abraham Bell, a contemporary who also worked as a photographer.
William H. Bell
Born1830[1]
Liverpool, England
DiedJanuary 28, 1910(1910-01-28) (aged 79–80)[1]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
RelativesWilliam H. Rau (son-in-law)

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.[1] In his later years, he wrote articles on the dry plate process and other techniques for various photography journals.

  1. ^ a b c Will Stapp, John Hannavy (ed.), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Vol. 1 (Routledge, 2007), pp. 142–143.