Object Details
- Local Call Number(s)
- NAA Photo Lot 4420
- Creator
- Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
- Photographer
- Geological Survey (U.S.)
- Names
- Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.) (1862-1872) (Hayden Survey)
- Photographer
- J. Gurney & Son
- Names
- Powell-Thompson Survey
- Photographer
- Savage & Ottinger
- Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
- Carter, C. W., 1832-1918
- Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison)
- Easterly, Thomas M. (Thomas Martin), 1809-1882
- Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
- Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
- M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.)
- Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899
- Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910
- Vannerson, Julian, 1827-
- Westmann, Orloff R.
- Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886
- Addl. KW Subj
- Plains Apache Creek (Muskogee) Lenape Otoe Sioux Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox Sauk & Fox Luiseno Temecula Brotherton; Brothertown Chippewa Papago (Tohono O'odham) Mdewakanton Pembina Ottawa (Odawa) Pima (Akimel O'odham) Iroquois White River (Parusanuch and Yampa) Sandia Nambe San Juan (Ohkay Owingeh) Huron
- Topic
- Indians of North America -- Northeast
- Pueblos
- Indians of North America -- Southern states
- Creator
- Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
- Culture
- White Mountain Apache
- Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache (New Mexico)
- Wahpetonwan Dakota (Wahpeton Sioux)
- Waco Indians
- White River Ute (Yampa)
- Wyandot
- Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
- Wichita
- Tewa Pueblos
- Taos Indians
- Stockbridge Indians
- Sisitonwan Dakota (Sisseton Sioux)
- Ute
- Uintah Ute
- Tonkawa
- Pueblo
- Tohono O'odham (Papago)
- Akimel O'odham (Pima)
- A:shiwi (Zuni)
- Yanktonnai Nakota
- Montauk
- Bannock
- Diné (Navajo)
- Brotherton Indians
- Modoc
- Inunaina (Arapaho)
- Mojave (Mohave)
- Sahnish (Arikara)
- Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux)
- Missouria (Missouri)
- Apache
- Numakiki (Mandan)
- Chiricahua Apache
- Miami
- Oto
- Kitchai Wichita
- Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
- Kiowa
- Osage
- Chickasaw
- Odawa (Ottawa)
- Jicarilla Apache
- Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
- Cherokee
- Omaha
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
- Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)
- Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
- Caddo
- Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
- Iowa
- Sauk
- Seminole
- Dakota (Eastern Sioux)
- Shawnee
- Potawatomi
- Shoshone
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
- Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)
- Choctaw
- Cochiti Pueblo
- Niuam (Comanche)
- Muscogee (Creek)
- Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
- Sioux
- Lenape (Delaware)
- Fox
- Hopi Pueblo
- Seneca
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- Indians of North America -- Plateau
- Indians of North America -- Great Basin
- See more items in
- William Henry Jackson photograph albums based on his Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians
- Biographical/Historical note
- William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was an American painter, photographer and explorer. Born in New York, he sold drawings and retouched photographs from an early age. After serving in the Civil War, he opened a photography studio in Omaha, Nebraska, with his brother Edward. As photographer for the US Geological and Geographical Surveys (1870-1878), he documented the American west and published the first photographs of Yellowstone. When the surveys lost funding in 1879, Jackson opened a studio in Denver, Colorado, and also worked for various railroad companies. Many of Jackson's photographs were displayed at the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago (1893), for which he was the official photographer.
- Extent
- 9 Albums (circa 4000 prints, albumen (some copies))
- Date
- circa 1877
- Custodial History note
- Albums were probably maintained as part of the Bureau of American Ethnology archives. Volumes 1-5, which had been disbound, were reassembled into their original order by Margaret Blaker in March, 1954. .
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.PhotoLot.4420
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Albums
- Photographs
- Citation
- Photo Lot 4420, William Henry Jackson photograph albums based on his Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Existence and Location of Copies note
- Digital surrogates for many of the photographs in Album 6 available online.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents note
- Albums probably assembled by William Henry Jackson, mostly containing portraits of Native American delegates in Washington, D.C. and photographs made on US Geological Surveys (including the Hayden and Powell surveys). Photographs from the field include John K. Hillers' photographs of the Southwest, photographs of Fort Laramie (possibly by Alexander Gardner), Orloff R. Westmann's photographs of Taos Pueblo, and Jackson's photographs of Crow, Shoshoni, Pawnee, and Nez Perce Tribes and related sites. Most of the photographs were made circa 1860s-1870s. The albums were probably by Jackson while working under Ferdinand V. Hayden for the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. The reason for their creation is uncertain, though it may have been a project set up by Hayden or a continuation of William Henry Blackmore's tradition of publishing albums. Some of the albums include captions pasted from Jackson's Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians (1877) while others have handwritten captions.
- Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511997491-1503511997494-0
