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 3 Collections and/or Records:
The photograph and the American Indian
William Henry Jackson photographic print of Jackson Br.'s Photographers sign
William Henry Jackson photographic print of Jackson Br.'s Photographers sign, 1868
Photographic print of a sketch framed by a painted sign swung out from Cor of Douglas and 15th St Omaha of two Native Americans fighting on horseback. On back is a rough sketch of seven Native Americans also on horseback. Includes initials and holographic inscription by Jackson. In Time Exposure, Jackson notes that this Omaha shingle was taken from "When Pawnee Meets Sioux" by F.O.C. Darley.
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