Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Person
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:
Photograph of William Henry Jackson on mountain top
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b6_f4_878a
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Photograph of William Henry Jackson, RS Ellison, President Stanolind Pipeline Co., and former resident of Casper, WY, C. W. Butler, VP of S. P. Co., 1942
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 880
Scope and Contents note
Photograph printed in the Casper Tribune Herald August 1942. 1942. American Pioneer Trails Assn. Convention, as stated on a memo with the photograph.
Dates:
Other: 1942
Photograph of William Henry Jackson, RS Ellison, President Stanolind Pipeline Co., and former resident of Casper, WY, C. W. Butler, VP of S. P. Co.
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b6_f4_880a
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Portrait of William Henry Jackson, 1925
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 891
Dates:
Other: 1925
Portrait of William Henry Jackson, approximately 1940
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 895
Scope and Contents note
Portrait of Jackson in his later years.
Dates:
Other: approximately 1940
Portrait of William Henry Jackson
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b6_f5_891a
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Portrait of William Henry Jackson
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b6_f5_895a
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Pueblo Indians in front of Adobe Home by William Henry Jackson
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232574563]
Identifier: MSS 8632
Scope and Contents
Materials include one photograph of a group of Pueblo Indians in front of an adobe home. The photograph was taken by William Henry Jackson. Materials dated approximately 1878.
Dates:
approximately 1878
Reise-Erinnerungen photograph album
Item — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 8745
Scope and Contents
Materials include a photograph album containing photographs gathered throughout the original owner's travels, with the words "Reise-Erinnerungen," German for "Travel Memories," inscribed on the cover. Included are photographs of San Francisco, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; Niagara Falls; New York City, New York; and Washington, D.C. These photographs were taken by I.W. Taber, William Henry Jackson, J.S. Johnston, and Gebrüder Wehrli, among other unidentified...
Dates:
1897
The Explorers Club tribute to William H. Jackson on his ninieth birthday, 1933
Item — Box 8: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233621934], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 1608 Series 2 Item 844
Scope and Contents note
A painting at the top of a card with signatures below.
Dates:
Other: 1933
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