William Henry Jackson

[American Photographer, 1843-1942]

• Subject matter:	Specializes in Landscapes.
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Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
Mouth of Patterson's Creek, Main Line, B & O Railroad

Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
Henry Gannett Album

Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York
Selected Stereo Views

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Cañon Diablo Bridge, ca.1870-80

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
12 works online by Jackson

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Mountain of the Holy Cross, hand-colored photograph, 1873

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Canon of the Rio Las Animas

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Curicante Needle, Black Canon of the Gunnison

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currecanti Needle, Black Cañon of the Gunnison

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
3 photographs online

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Rainbow Falls, ca.1880

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!

William Henry Jackson in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
The Trail in West Gallatin Canyon, 1870s

Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska

National Park Service - Histiry and Culture

William Henry Jackson at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Virtual Museum of Canada
Grand Canon of the Colorado, ca.1880

Virtual Museum of Canada
I Baptize Thee, ca.1940

Virtual Museum of Canada
Entrance to the Highlands, Hudson River, ca.1898

Virtual Museum of Canada
Going to Church, ca.1940-41

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

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Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
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Colorado, 1870-2000

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