Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Artist
William Henry Jackson
(American, 1843 - 1942)
Dateca. 1872-1873
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage: 12 3/8 × 9 1/8 inches (31.43 × 23.18 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 5/16 inches (33.66 × 26.19 cm)
Mount: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 5/16 inches (33.66 × 26.19 cm)
Mount: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.322
Signednone
InscribedOn image recto, lower left corner, in negative: "GRAND CANYON of the YELLOWSTONE."
MarkingsOn mount recto, top, blue stamp: "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR / U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY / (of the) / TERRITORIES"
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DescriptionImage of a river running through the valley of steep mountains; evergreens in the foreground lower right and along the ridges.Gallery LabelJackson was one of the most prolific photographers of the 19th-century American West. He took up the camera in the late 1860s and worked for some of the great government-sponsored surveys of the 1870s and 1880s. Jackson first visited Yellowstone in 1871 with a party headed by the geologist Ferdinand V. Hayden. In 1872, persuaded in part by Jackson's dramatic photographs, Congress designated Yellowstone the nation's first National Park. In this work we see a now classic view of the Yellowstone River.
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