Artist: William Henry Jackson (1843 - 1942)
Nationality:American
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
After serving in the American Civil War, William Henry Jackson headed west and settled in Omaha, Nebraska. He opened a portrait photography studio with his brother. In 1870, Jackson went on an expedition across Wyoming to the Yellowstone Lake Area with geologist, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. These images were the first to photographs of Yellowstone to be published and helped the area to become the first national park in 1872. Jackson was also the first to photograph prehistoric Native American dwellings in Mesa Verde, Colorado. After these expeditions, he settled in Denver and worked as a commercial landscape photographer and published his work as postcards.

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