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 36 Collections and/or Records:
Bryant Dolare Casper Portrait of William Henry Jackson, 1925 August 23
Bryant Dolare Casper Portrait of William Henry Jackson, 1925
Bryant Dolare Casper Portrait of William Henry Jackson
Bryant Dolare Casper Portrait of William Henry Jackson
John H. Campe and William Henry Jackson photographs of Utah and Colorado
Collection includes 11 photographs of Utah and Colorado landscapes and towns. All are photographs mounted on card and most are albumen prints. The photographers of these are either John H. Campe or William Henry Jackson, with the creator of each photograph clearly noted on the card. Dated approximately 1870-1940.
Commemorative plaque in memory of William Henry Jackson, approximately 1942-1947
Commemorative plaque in memory of William Henry Jackson
Edith M. Thompson, Jackson, Mr. Butler, 1940
Edith M. Thompson, Jackson, Mr. Butler
Expedition of 1870, 1870
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- Archival Object 18
- Digital Record 17
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Albumen prints 2
- Automobiles -- Photographs 2
- Berthoud Pass (Colo.) -- Photographs 2
- Christmas cards -- Photographs 2
- Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) -- Photographs 2
- Glacier Gulch (Wyo.) -- Photographs 2
- Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.) -- Photographs 2
- Greeting cards -- Photographs 2
- Hayden Expedition (U.S.) -- Photographs 2
- Hayden Geological Survey (U.S.) -- Photographs 2
- Photographers -- United States -- Photographs 2
- Plaques, plaquettes -- Photographs 2
- Pony express -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Photographs 2
- Red Buttes (Natrona County, Wyo.) -- Photographs 2
- Teton National Forest (Wyo.) -- Photographs 2
- Valleys -- Wyoming -- Photographs 2
- Art -- West (U.S.) 1
- Artists -- United States 1
- Cities and towns -- Colorado -- Photographs 1
- Cities and towns -- Utah -- Photographs 1
- Correspondence 1
- Images 1
- Indians of North America -- Photographs 1
- Landscapes -- Colorado -- Photographs 1
- Landscapes -- Utah -- Photographs 1
- Material Types 1
- Overland journeys to the Pacific 1
- Paintings 1
- Photographers -- United States 1
- Publications 1
- Watercolors (Paintings) 1 + ∧ less