H.H. Bennett n.d. The revolving printing house circa 1948, now at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Book illustration Private collection of Gary Dineen Published in: Sara Rath, 1979, Pioneer Photographer Wisconsin's H.H. Bennett (Trails Media Group Inc)
But the most unusual part of the new studio was the revolving printing house that stood behind the building, on top of the woodshed. It was a small square room on iron rollers that ran on a circular track and had to be reached by an open stairway. Inside the printing house a large iron wheel connected to the rollers by a metal cable turned the building around three quarters of a circle so the angled printing windows that ran across the bottom of one side of the room could face the sun all day. Bennett would turn the crank every half hour. A separate window was allotted to the solar camera. There was only one other printing house like this in the United States. Bennett explained to Metcalf that it was necessary for producing stereo views in profitable quantities.
