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William H. Bell (1830 (Liverpool, England) - 1910) was a British-American photographer. In 1848, he opened a daguerrotype studio in Philadelphia. beginning in 1863, while serving in the Union Army, he took a series of wartime medical photographs. After the American Civil War, he was appointed chief photographer of the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C.. In 1872, he joined the Wheeler Survey as photographer on an expedition into Arizona. He later worked as photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad and with an expedition to Patagonia, where in 1882 he photographed the Transit of Venus.