William Henry Jackson on Shorpy

[Richard Wasserman]

1902 & looking quite dapper— http://www.shorpy.com/node/11206?size=_original

[D. Bryant]

1902 & looking quite dapper— http://www.shorpy.com/node/11206?size=_original

Nice looking camera too. Just noticed the film holders and folding camera and the photos on the wall - waterfalls anyone? Looks like it could have been made last week. Oops and the tripod on the chair.

[Kirk Gittings]

Quite the dapper dude.


Looks like it could have been made last week.
Hmm.....what does that say about current LF photography?

[Caroline Matthews]

He had a great RV.

[SamReeves]

And an RV with flanged wheels. Not easy to come by for any photographer, although Union Pacific gave A.J. Russell his own rolling darkroom.

[Frank Petronio]

He was the real deal, just ordered his autobiography.

[Richard Wasserman]

He was the real deal, just ordered his autobiography.


Me too!

[henrysamson]

What an amazing life he had. I read that a year or two before his death he traveled cross country by commercial airline and was served inflight meals! Such a contrast to his earlier travels across the west by horseback and experiences as a soldier in the Civil War.

I hope I look that good at 59!

[John Jarosz]

I haven't read his autobiography but I have read

William Henry Jackson - Framing the Frontier
by Douglas Waitley
ISBN 0-87842-381-8
pub by Mountain Press in Missoula MT in 1998

It's a very good read and it has an amazing bibliography.

WHJ was made of stuff much much stronger than any of us.

John

[Helcio J Tagliolatto]

Thanks Richard.
What a beautiful picture. Just ordered a print.

[tgtaylor]

I haven't read his autobiography but I have read

William Henry Jackson - Framing the Frontier
by Douglas Waitley
ISBN 0-87842-381-8
pub by Mountain Press in Missoula MT in 1998

It's a very good read and it has an amazing bibliography.

John

I'll second that!