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 64 Collections and/or Records:

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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

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Henry Jackson papers / William Henry Jackson photographs and art

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

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Henry Jackson papers / William Henry Jackson photographs and art

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

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Henry Jackson papers / William Henry Jackson photographs and art

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

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Henry Jackson papers / William Henry Jackson photographs and art

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

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Additional filters:

Type

Archival Object 27

Digital Record 25

Collection 12

 

Subject

Photographs 48

Gelatin silver prints 36

Albumen prints 7

Drawings 6

Images 4

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Material Types 4

Art -- West (U.S.) 3

Artists -- United States 3

Correspondence 3

Indians of North America -- Photographs 3

Indians of North America -- Pictorial works 3

Oil paintings 3

Overland journeys to the Pacific 3

Photographers -- United States 3

Photographic prints 3

Publications 3

Social Life and Customs 3

Alpine Pass (Colo.) -- Photographs 2

Artists' preparatory studies -- Pictorial works 2

Automobiles -- Photographs 2

Berthoud Pass (Colo.) -- Photographs 2

Christmas cards -- Photographs 2

Deserts -- California -- Pictorial works 2

Explorers Club -- 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

Mojave Desert (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 2

Mountain goat -- Pictorial works 2

Photograph albums 2

Photographers -- United States -- Photographs 2

Plaques, plaquettes -- Photographs 2

Pony express -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Photographs 2

Red Buttes (Natrona County, Wyo.) -- Photographs 2

Rocky Mountains -- Pictorial works 2

Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Photographs 2

Signs and signboards -- Pictorial works 2

Skis and skiing -- Colorado -- Photographs 2

Teton National Forest (Wyo.) -- Photographs 2

Teton Range (Wyo. and Idaho) -- Pictorial works 2

Texas longhorn cattle -- Pictorial works 2

Valleys -- Wyoming -- Photographs 2

Watercolors (Paintings) 2

West (U.S.) -- Photographs 2

Adobe houses -- Photographs 1

Agriculture and Natural Resources 1

Algiers (Algeria) -- Photographs 1

Australia -- Photographs 1

Cabinet photographs 1

Canyons -- Utah -- Photographs 1

China -- Photographs 1

Cities and towns -- Colorado -- Photographs 1

Cities and towns -- Utah -- Photographs 1

City and Town Life 1

Cliff-dwellings -- Utah -- San Juan County -- Photographs 1

Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1

Colorado -- Photographs 1

DVDs 1

Dakota Indians -- Pictorial works 1

Dakota Indians -- Portraits 1

Denver (Colo.) -- Photographs 1

Diaries 1

Echo Canyon (Utah) -- Photographs 1

Egypt -- Photographs 1

Environment and Conservation 1

Environmental Conditions 1

Expeditions and Adventure 1

Fox Indians -- Pictorial works 1

Fox Indians -- Portraits 1

Green River (Utah) -- Photographs 1

Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah) -- Photographs 1

Home and Family 1

Immigration and American Expansion 1

India -- Photographs 1

Indians of North America -- Portraits 1

Indians of North America -- Utah -- Photographs 1

Interviews 1

Japan -- Photographs 1

Labor -- Utah -- Photographs 1

Landscapes -- Colorado -- Photographs 1

Landscapes -- Photographs 1

Landscapes -- Utah -- Photographs 1

Latter Day Saint churches -- Apostles 1

Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Photographs 1

Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Photographs 1

Letters 1

Mandan Indians -- Pictorial works 1

Mandan Indians -- Portraits 1

Mdewakanton Indians -- Pictorial works 1

Mdewakanton Indians -- Portraits 1

Media and Communication 1

Mines and Mineral Resources 1

Mormons -- Photographs 1

New York (N.Y.) -- Photographs 1

New Zealand -- Photographs 1

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Photographs 1

Ogden Canyon (Utah) -- Photographs 1

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