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[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, finishing one of his paintings of the Oregon Trail] – Vintage Photo Print

[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, finishing one of his paintings of the Oregon Trail] — historic photograph
[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, finishing one of his paintings of the Oregon Trail]. Historic photograph from the Yellowstone collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, finishing one of his paintings of the Oregon Trail], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, finishing one of his paintings of the Oregon Trail]

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Here the sitter is the photographer himself, William Henry Jackson, shown seated in profile and at work on one of his Oregon Trail paintings. Jackson is best known for his photographs from the Hayden Survey of 1871, whose images of Yellowstone helped persuade Congress to set the area aside as a national park in 1872. Later in his long life he turned to painting, and his canvases of wagon trains and western trails drew on the same field experience. The caption card gives no date, but the portrait shows an artist who had already spent decades documenting the American West.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,211 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136983

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