Loudolph Hensel Gallery
Views in the Gallery are Not for Sale

Loudolph Hensel is our favorite photographer. Not only because he was local to where we live in Pennsylvania, but also because he was a master of composition and especially because he recorded life the way it was occurring in the 1870's and 1880's rather than only taking the scenic views that were the bread & butter of photographers during this period. He was born in New York City in 1849. In 1866, at the age of 17, he moved to Port Jervis, N.Y. where he became a photographic apprentice. He launched his own business in 1875 with a series of views of an ice gorge that destroyed the bridge linking Port Jervis to Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River. The demand for these photographs was so great that he began traveling around the area, taking views of the towns, landscapes and points of interest. He moved to Hawley, Pa. in 1878 and reestablished his business there and was active in it until his death in 1927. One of his most notable series was on the Delaware & Hudson Gravity Railroad, which took coal from the mines in Scranton and Carbondale Pa., over the mountains to Honesdale, and from there via canal to the Hudson River in order to supply the NYC market. Views from that series follows. We will add to this gallery as time permits. These views are in our personal collection and are not for sale.

922 View up the Plane, Honesdale.


923 View up the Plane, Honesdale.


1108 Looking up No. 16 Plane, Passenger Train on Loaded Track.


1114 Depot and Tracks, seen from Foot-Bridge, at Waymart.


1119 View of Shepard's Crook.


1132 View down Lackawanna Valley from Plane No. 26.