American Historical Images

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Read the about the exhibition and Hensel's life story.
"Hensel’s portfolio like the work of the Hudson River School painters provides an accurate historical account of people’s shifting relationship to the natural landscape, and a visual record of changes resulting from practices like logging, industrialization and community development."

Giclee Prints Showcase an Artist's Prespective
American Historical Images are Impressive Reflections of Days Gone By
Now available to the public Louis Hensel's photographs of lifestyles of the late 19th century and nostalgic images of Dan Beard and his troops at the "Wild Lands" Camp at Lake Teedyskung in Pennsylvania.
Each black and white photograph is beautiful revealed in the giclee print, highlighting the artist's sensibility to light and nature.
As an effort of historical preservation, these amazing photographs have been archived and catalogued to ensure is life for future generations. Share apart of history by giving a photographic print as a gift or buy a set of notecards for yourself.
A portion of the proceeds are being donated to the Hawley Library Association, Inc. in Hawley, PA where Louis Hensel's photography studio was located.

This Collection of Hensel Photographs offers a wide range in images; from wonderful waterfalls to tranquil landscapes, from reflections in lakes to capturing portraits of days gone by.

Louis Hensel's captured images through glass plate negatives. A great deal of care has been taken to archive the glass negatives properly. Each negative has be scanned with state-of-the-art equipment and printed with pigmented inks on archival paper. We have streamlined this process to include as few steps as possible to ensure capturing the essence of Louis Hensel's vision.

As we opened our archive of glass negatives, we selected images from the a range of subject matter from the Boy Scouts of America at the one of their first Boy Scout Camps to Landscape and Waterfall imagery.