Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
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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 53 Collections and/or Records:
KBYU interview with Thomas R. Wells
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225546586]
Identifier: MSS 3786
Scope and Contents
KBYU broadcast report on L. Tom Perry Special Collections Photo Archives projects designed to make photographs, many of which from Church Archives, available on the Internet. Interviewee Tom Wells explains the process (i.e., preservation, description, access, and Internet folksonomy) used in preparing the digital collections. Report discusses some photographers in the collection, including: Walter Mason Camp, photographer of the Indian Wars of North America; Edith Irvine, photographer of San...
Dates:
2006
Photograph of elderly Mr. Jackson sitting on couch and talking to E. W. Deming, 8/29/1940
Item — Oversize 12: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233276929], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 1002
Dates:
Other: 8/29/1940
Photograph of elderly Mr. Jackson sitting on couch and talking to E. W. Deming
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_osb4_f5_1002a
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Photograph of William Henry Jackson, A. W. Proctor and W. M. Stooky, approximately 1935
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 882
Dates:
Other: approximately 1935
Photograph of William Henry Jackson, A. W. Proctor and W. M. Stooky
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b6_f4_882a
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Photograph of William Henry Jackson and Horace Albright, approximately 1866-1929
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 873
Dates:
Other: approximately 1866-1929
Photograph of William Henry Jackson and Horace Albright
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b6_f4_873a
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Photograph of William Henry Jackson at Berthoud Pass, 1934
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 879
Dates:
Other: 1934
Photograph of William Henry Jackson at Berthoud Pass
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b6_f4_879a
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Photograph of William Henry Jackson on mountain top, approximately 1925-1940
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 878
Dates:
Other: approximately 1925-1940
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