LoginRegister
Photographers:
Connections:
Getting around...
| Home > Contents > Photographers
William Henry Jackson
  Photographs 

Access the Complete Archive

Luminous-Lint maintains a biographical and visual records for over 20,000 photographers. To preserve the integrity of these scholarly resources and provide access to the full collection of interlinked images and research fragments, we invite you to join our community.

Register for Access
William Henry Jackson
image
Unidentified photographer, 1873, 2 January, William Henry Jackson, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97476
William Henry Jackson

Other: W.H. Jackson
Other: William H. Jackson

Born: 1843, 4 April - US, NY, Keesville
Died: 1942, 30 June - US, NY, New York
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
Jackson worked with the railway companies and survey groups moving out into the American West. His landscape photographs are some of the most important ever made and helped define the ‘West‘.

Genealogy of William Henry Jackson

If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch.
 
alan@luminous-lint.com

Lightbox > Portraits
   
William Henry Jackson, n.d., W.H. Jackson and Assistant loading equipment on their burro, Stereocard, Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc, LL/27705
Image: LL/27705
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
William Henry Jackson, n.d., William Henry Jackson view of mule packing for the trail, Stereocard, Stereographica - Antique Photographica, LL/13274
Image: LL/13274
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
William Henry Jackson, 1870, 24 August, A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden's camp of the U.& Geological Survey. Red Buttes, Wyo. Terr. [Hayden sits at far end of table in dark jacket; W. H. Jackson stands at far right.], National Archives and Records Administration, LL/1640
Image: LL/1640
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
William Henry Jackson, 1870s (ca), [William Henry Jackson with his mule - Self-Portrait on Mount Washburn, Yellowstone], Stereoview, Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus, LL/130222
Image: LL/130222
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
William Henry Jackson, 1871, William Jackson packing a mule, Albumen print, National Parks Service, LL/35271
Image: LL/35271
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
William Henry Jackson, 1872, W.H. Jackson on 1872 Yellowstone Expedition, Albumen print, National Parks Service, LL/35269
Image: LL/35269
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
Unidentified photographer, 1873, 2 January, William Henry Jackson, Carte de visite, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, LL/97476
Image: LL/97476
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1880 (ca), William Henry Jackson, pioneer photographer, United States Geological Service, LL/6617
Image: LL/6617
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
Unidentified photographer, 1880 (ca), William Henry Jackson, pioneer photographer, Albumen print ?, United States Geological Service, LL/43781
Image: LL/43781
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
William Henry Jackson, 1883, Pueblo Laguna, New Mexico, Albumen print, Denver Art Museum, LL/66379
Image: LL/66379
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
James J. Gibson, 1893 (ca), William Henry Jackson assisting in posing another subject in the studio of James J. Gibson, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Stereocard, George Eastman Museum, LL/69899
Image: LL/69899
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
James J. Gibson, 1893 (ca), William Henry Jackson being photographed in the studio of James J. Gibson, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Stereocard, George Eastman Museum, LL/69897
Image: LL/69897
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
James J. Gibson, 1893 (ca), William Henry Jackson being photographed in the studio of James J. Gibson, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Stereocard, George Eastman Museum, LL/69898
Image: LL/69898
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
Detroit Publishing Co., 1902, William Henry Jackson seated at table. Probably in Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad car., Glass negative, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/74213
Image: LL/74213
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
William Henry Jackson, 1936, 4 April, Birthday Greetings to William Jackson From his Family and Friends April 4, 1936, Birthday card, cropped, Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee Library Digital Collections, LL/59081
Image: LL/59081
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1939 (ca), William Henry Jackson, pioneer photographer, United States Geological Service, LL/6618
Image: LL/6618
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
Unidentified photographer, 1940, 8 April, William Henry Jackson at Exhibition of His Photographs, Gelatin silver print, Archive Farms, LL/129381
Image: LL/129381
Lots of additional options for subscribers.
   
Approved biographies

Wikipedia
 
William Henry Jackson (April 4, 1843 - June 30, 1942) was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. He was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol Uncle Sam. He was the great-grandfather of cartoonist Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead comics.
 

SHARED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION PROJECT
 
We welcome institutions and scholars willing to test the sharing of biographies for the benefit of the photo-history community. The biography above is a part of this trial.
 
If you find any errors please email us details so they can be corrected as soon as possible.

  Photographs 
Terms and conditions • Copyright • Privacy • Contact me
Contributors retain copyright over their submissions
In using this website you agree to the Terms and Conditions
© Alan Griffiths - Luminous-Lint 2025