JACKSON, WILLIAM HENRY

born April 4, 1843, Keesville, N.Y., U.S. died June 30, 1942, New York City American photographer noted for his landscape photographs of the American West. As a boy in Troy, N.Y., Jackson painted landscapes on screens and did retouching for a photographic studio. After the Civil War he went west and some time later opened a studio in Omaha, Neb. He photographed local Indian tribes and the line of the Union Pacific Railroad. From 1870 to 1878 he was the official photographer for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. His photographs of the wonders of northwestern Wyoming, taken during the survey of 1871, were instrumental in the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. He photographed in the Grand Tetons (now the Grand Teton National Park) in 1872, and in 1874 he photographed the cliff dwellings of Colorado (now the Mesa Verde National Park). When the survey was completed in 1879, he opened a studio in Denver, Colo.