Group of 7 mounted albumen photographs of Yellowstone
$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
The images which helped create Yellowstone National Park. Jackson began his career in photography in 1858, working as a retouching artist in a studio in Troy, N.Y. In the 1860s, after serving briefly in the Union Army, he worked at several studios in Vermont before moving to Omaha, Nebraska in 1867 where he established his own studio. He worked on an extensive series of views for the Union Pacific Railroad, which earned him enough notice to be recruited by Ferdinand Hayden
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