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Jackson, William Henry
American (1843-1942)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Castellated Rocks on the Chugwater
ALBUM TITLE: Henry Gannett album.

1870
albumen print
7.7 x 7.7 cm.
Museum Purchase
74:0041:0239

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Jackson, William Henry. --Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of the USGS of the Territories for the Years 1869 to 1875 Inclusive.-- Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1875. p. 11.//

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

NOTES: Catalogued 2/86, SB. Photo is one frame of stereo image. VSW holds same image with penciled title, "Rocks in Chug Water." (DG 75:025:519) "Research shows these to have been taken by William Henry Jackson on his first trip with Hayden in the summer of 1870, when the survey went into the Laramie Mountains in southeastern Wyoming. Hayden distributed private copies of Jackson's views to Congressmen and other influencial individuals in an attempt to raise money for further expeditions." [William S. Johnson, 8/97]

SUBJECTS:
landscape, rock formation
landscape, figure in

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