1902 & looking quite dapper— http://www.shorpy.com/node/11206?size=_original
1902 & looking quite dapper— http://www.shorpy.com/node/11206?size=_original
Quite the dapper dude.
Hmm.....what does that say about current LF photography?Looks like it could have been made last week.
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
He had a great RV.
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.
He was the real deal, just ordered his autobiography.
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!
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
Thanks Richard.
What a beautiful picture. Just ordered a print.
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