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[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, standing in front of building, facing right, holding camera] – Vintage Wall Art

[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, standing in front of building, facing right, holding camera] — historic photograph
[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, standing in front of building, facing right, holding camera]. 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, standing in front of building, facing right, holding camera], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[William Henry Jackson, 1843-1942, half-length portrait, standing in front of building, facing right, holding camera]

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Here the photographer himself is the subject: William Henry Jackson, shown from the waist up, turned to the right and holding his camera in front of a building. The record gives no date for the portrait, but Jackson, who lived from 1843 to 1942, is best known for his work with the Hayden Geological Survey in 1871, when his views of Yellowstone's geysers and canyons helped persuade Congress to set the area aside as a national park in 1872. Seeing the man beside the bulky equipment that produced those images offers a useful sense of how field photography was practiced in the nineteenth century.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photography--Photographers; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,241 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136982

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