WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON 1030: Ute Pass Co., Ca. 1885, Hand Colored Albumen Print 21x16.75" flush mounted mammoth plate beautifully tinted. ASG# WHJ/1962 Framed.

Ute Pass at 9143 feet outside of Colorado Springs was a well traveled but steep mountain road. Jackson liked to photograph steep mountain walls and canyons and here has tinted it to add to its decorative qualities. His photographs hung in houses and museums throughout America when he was alive.

William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) trained as an illustrator and painter before picking up the camera shortly after the Civil War. He worked as a bullwhacker before setting up his first photography studio in Omaha. By 1867 he was taking pictures of the local Pawnee Indians. In 1869 he was taking landscape views along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad. The scientist and Geologic Survey leader, F.V. Hayden, met Jackson at this time and hired him to be the official photographer of the Hayden Survey. Jackson's photographs of Yellowstone from the early 1870s aided in its becoming the nation's first National Park. In 1879, his work for the Hayden survey ended and he opened a studio in Denver. Jackson's landscape/railroad work made in Colorado for the railroad companies in the 1880s was the primary source of the views he distributed from his Denver studio in the 1880s. By then Jackson had become the most famous photographers in America and like Carleton Watkins and Eadward Muybridge, one of a handful of artists who used mammoth plate negatives.

Excellent. Minor wear, edge wear