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WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON
1843 - 1942
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 148.
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BiographyEven more heroic than Jack Hillers's (q.v.) work were the picture-taking efforts of Jackson. Responsible for photographs of the Yellowstone region in 1971-72 that would be used effectively to promote the creation of Yellowstone National Park. Jackson, who had begun his picture-taking career in 1868 in Omaha, was destined to become the chief expeditionary photographer in the country. He returned year after year in the summer months to the Rockies and the West to create a monumental visual record of the area. For instance, packing a 20 x 24-inch camera into the Rocky Mountains in 1875. Jackson had to coat a nearly two-foot-square glass plate every time he set up his picture-taking equipment. He took his first successful western negative at Lake Cristobal, Colorado, a feat that typically took three days to accomplish. (b. April 4)
Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 148.