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WITH VIEWS OF JACKSON AT WORK JACKSON, WILLIAM HENRY (1843-1942) Rare sample album with 742 half stereo views by Jackson (on 54 leaves) spanning approximately fifteen years of his western career. The photographs feature a range of subjects, including portraits; landscapes; railroad and mining scenes; views of towns, including Colorado (Denver, Georgetown, Leadville, Ouray, Telluride, Breckenbridge, Evergreen Lake, Manitou, Pike's Peak plus the Robert E. Lee Mine and Bessemer Steel Work), Utah (Salt Lake City and Ute Indians), and Wyoming (the Badlands and Snake River); locomotives along the Union Pacific Railroad route; and numerous scenes of geysers and rock formations in Yellowstone. Also included are pictures of Jackson himself. Arch-topped albumen prints, 3 1/8x3 inches (7.9x7.6 cm.), with multiple prints mounted recto and verso on green boards measuring 9 3/4x15 3/4 inches (24.8x40 cm.). Folio-size pages, covers perished, disbound; with a 4-hole punch at the far left edge, all of the leaves are loose. 1870-1885
William Henry Jackson was one of the great 19th-century American landscape photographers. He is best known for his descriptive photographs chronicling the western expansion. He wrote extensively, painted and sketched, and built two of the most successful photographic view companies in the history of photography: his studio in Denver and later the Detroit Photographic Publishing Company.
Jackson's artistic growth as a landscape photographer evolved and quickly matured when he was hired by Ferdinand V. Hayden as the official photographer for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Influenced by Thomas Moran, a painter on the survey, and photographers C. R. Savage and A. J. Russell, Jackson absorbed the aesthetic of romantic engagement of the western landscape and development and colonization of the Territories. However this was countered by the inherent drama of being the first to photograph many high mountain peaks, valleys and western scenes in a more detailed and topographic style.
The images in the album feature a scarce series of wonderful images that start at the beginning of Jackson's inventory (the 100s) and include works at the later stage of his career (in the 5700s). Also included are, apparently, 3 images depicting Jackson: the photographer taking a picture with his view camera at Unaweep Canon; a scene in which he stands alongside his burro (Hypo), who is loaded with wooden crates; and Jackson on the trail to Gray's Peak.
The various topographic scenes include: Rock formations--Rocky Mountains Scenery of the Yellowstone. Geological Survey of the Territories Geysers--Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park Expeditions & surveys--West (U.S.) Utah Views in Colorado Territory.
