William Henry Jackson: Subjects & Themes
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Lantern Slides
583 worksDry Plate Negatives
387 worksHand Colored
362 worksMexico
237 worksAnsel Adams
In 1941 the Department of the Interior hired Ansel Adams to photograph the national parks and monuments for a planned set of murals in its Washington headquarters. The Second World War ended the Mural Project in 1942. These 220 photographs from it, of places including Yellowstone, Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, Glacier, Rocky Mountain, Grand Teton, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Zion and Acoma Pueblo, are held by the National Archives and are in the public domain. Seventy years earlier, William Henry Jackson's 1871 Yellowstone photographs helped persuade Congress to create the first national park.
220 worksNational Parks
220 worksParks
215 worksMonuments
207 worksIndia
177 worksRussia
152 worksRivers
112 worksChina
95 worksAlbumen Prints
89 worksFlorida
82 worksStreets
77 worksLandscape Photographs
68 worksSri Lanka
66 worksNew Zealand
61 worksSiberia
57 worksRailroad Stations
52 worksPakistan
50 worksStereographs
48 worksChildren
47 worksWyoming
46 worksEgypt
44 worksWorld'S Transportation Commission
39 worksCanyons
38 worksMountains
35 worksHarbors
33 worksRailroads
Western rail lines and the landscapes along them, from his early Union Pacific views to his later commercial railroad photography.
33 works