William bell photography variety

English-born American photographer

Not to be confused with William Abraham Bell, a contemporary who also worked as a photographer.

William H. Bell ( – January 28, ) 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 ^[1] In his later years, he wrote articles on the dry plate process and other techniques for various photography journals.

Early life

Bell was born in Liverpool, England, in He immigrated to the United States with his parents as a young child. After his parents were killed in a cholera epidemic, he was raised by a Quaker family in Abington, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia.^[1][2]

Career

In , at the outbreak Bill’s Seascape Photography | Bell Gallery and Garden TEKYQ