Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Dates
- Existence: 1843 - 1942
Biography
William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was a landscape photographer of the American West.
William Henry Jackson was born April 4, 1843, in Keeseville, New York. He was a man of great energy and love for the outdoors and especially the breadth and heights of the mountain West. His life spanned the first century of the new visual art of photography and the great era of westward expansion. He began his photography career in 1858 in New York as a photographic retouching artist in the burgeoning photography industry and ended it in New York City with his death in 1942. In between these years he became increasingly proficient in his chosen field through his studio and field work in Omaha, Nebraska, his nine year odyssey as the official photographer with Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden’s United States Geological Survey of the Territories, his 15 years in Denver, Colorado, 17 months of Asian and Pacific travel with the World Transportation Commission, his 27 years in Detroit associated with the Detroit Photographic Company and its successor the Detroit Publishing Company, and finally his highly productive "so-called" retirement years from 1924 to 1942. He died on June 30, 1942, in New York, New York at the age of 99.
Citation:
U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Catalogue of the photographs ... 1875.An eye for history, the paintings of William Henry Jackson, from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum, 1999?: t.p. (William Henry Jackson) p. viii (Union soldier, explorer, photographer, and artist for the Hayden Surveys of the Territories in the 1870s; autobiography, Time exposure) p. 2 (age 92 in 1935) p. 84 (d. in 1942)
William Henry Jackson, frontier photographer and artist, from National Park Service web site, 8/20/1999 (William Henry Jackson - 1843-1942; b. Apr. 4, 1843 in Keeseville, New York; d. June 30, 1942 in New York, ,New York)
Brigham Young University William Henry Jackson Digital Collection, via WWW, Mar. 12, 2015 (b. Apr. 4, 1843 in Keeseville, N.Y.; was a man of great energy and love for the outdoors and especially the breadth and heights of the mountain west; his life spanned the first century of the new visual art of photography and the great era of westward expansion; began his photography career in 1858 in New York as a photographic retouching artist in the burgeoning photography industry and ended it in New York City with his death in 1942; In between these years he became increasingly proficient in his chosen field through his studio and field work in Omaha, Neb., his nine year odyssey as the official photographer with Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's United States Geological Survey of the Territories, his 15 years in Denver, Colo., 17 months of Asian and Pacific travel with the World Transportation Commission, his 27 years in Detroit associated with the Detroit Photographic Company and its successor the Detroit Publishing Company, and finally his highly productive "so-called" retirement years from 1924-1942; died on June 30, 1942 in New York, New York at the age of 99)
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Bighorn in the Tetons, Wyoming, 1863-1878
Photographic print of drawing depicting scenes of the U. S. G. S. Gelatin print of drawing. Photograph of Jackson in tent, sketching a big horn mountain goat, as described in The Pioneer Photographer, page 128.
Bryant Dolare Casper Portrait of William Henry Jackson, 1925 August 23
Bryant Dolare Casper Portrait of William Henry Jackson, 1925
Commemorative plaque in memory of William Henry Jackson, approximately 1942-1947
Edith M. Thompson, Jackson, Mr. Butler, 1940
Expedition of 1870, 1870
Glacier Canyon Teton, Wyo., 1933
Autographed Christmas Photo Greeting card for William Henry Jackson. The photograph is of Jackson on horse in the mountains.
Photograph of elderly Mr. Jackson sitting on couch and talking to E. W. Deming, 8/29/1940
Photograph of William Henry Jackson, A. W. Proctor and W. M. Stooky, approximately 1935
Photograph of William Henry Jackson and Horace Albright, approximately 1866-1929
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- Indians of North America -- Photographs 2
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- Overland journeys to the Pacific 2
- Photographers -- United States 2
- Publications 2
- Alpine Pass (Colo.) -- Photographs 1
- Artists' preparatory studies -- Pictorial works 1
- Automobiles -- Photographs 1
- Berthoud Pass (Colo.) -- Photographs 1
- Christmas cards -- Photographs 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Deserts -- California -- Pictorial works 1
- Diaries 1
- Explorers Club -- Photographs 1
- Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) -- Photographs 1
- Glacier Gulch (Wyo.) -- Photographs 1
- Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.) -- Photographs 1
- Greeting cards -- Photographs 1
- Hayden Expedition (U.S.) -- Photographs 1
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- Indians of North America -- Pictorial works 1
- Letters 1
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- Mountain goat -- Pictorial works 1
- Oil paintings 1
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- Plaques, plaquettes -- Photographs 1
- Pony express -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Photographs 1
- Red Buttes (Natrona County, Wyo.) -- Photographs 1
- Rocky Mountains -- Pictorial works 1
- Signs and signboards -- Pictorial works 1
- Skis and skiing -- Colorado -- Photographs 1
- Teton National Forest (Wyo.) -- Photographs 1
- Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho) -- Pictorial works 1
- Texas longhorn cattle -- Pictorial works 1
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