[Group of stereoview photographs of Colorado on original U.S. Geological Survey mounts]

[Colorado, 1873. 36 arch-topped albumen stereoview photographs by Jackson, mounted on yellow Hayden Survey mounts, images numbered and titled within the negative (27 being standard cabinet size [approx. 4 x 7 inches]; 9 "deluxe cabinet" size [4 1/2 x 7 inches]). Within 2 cloth chemises, quarter morocco box.

Scarce group of Jackson stereoviews from the Hayden Survey.

William Henry Jackson was one of the great 19th-century American landscape photographers, best known for his descriptive photographs chronicling the western expansion. Jackson began his career in photography in 1858, working as a retouching artist in a studio in Troy, New York. In the 1860s, after serving briefly in the Union Army, he worked at several studios in Vermont before moving to Omaha, Nebraska in 1867, where he established his own studio. He worked on an extensive series of views for the Union Pacific Railroad, which earned him enough notice to be recruited by Ferdinand Hayden for the U.S. Geological Survey team. With the Survey, Jackson explored and photographed vast areas of the West, including Yellowstone and parts of Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. Jackson's artistic growth as a landscape photographer evolved and quickly matured when he was hired by Hayden. Influenced by Thomas Moran, a painter on the survey, and photographers C. R. Savage and A. J. Russell, Jackson absorbed the aesthetic of romantic engagement of the western landscape and development and colonization of the Territories. However this was countered by the inherent drama of being the first to photograph many high mountain peaks, valleys and western scenes in a more detailed and topographic style. This group, all depicting landscapes in Colorado from his 1873 series, includes the following images (deluxe size images marked with *): [641] Long's Peak, from Estes Park [642] Estes Park [647] Long's Peak, from South East [648] Colorado or Front Range from Near Gold Hill [650] Castle Rock, Boulder Canon [652] Boulder Canon [656] In the Snow near Gold Hill [658] Down Clear Creek, From Empire Trail * [659] Trail from Empire to Georgetown [660] Gray's Peak * [661] Torrey's Peak * [666] Frozen Lake, Near James Peak [669] Chicago Lake, Mt. Rosalie [676] Eroded Sandstones, Monument Park [678] Eroded Sandstones, Monument Park [680] Gateway, Garden of the Gods [682] Cathedral Spires, Garden of the Gods * [684] Pike's Peak, from Garden of the Gods [686] Ute Falls, in Ute Pass [687] Mt. Lincoln, from Hoosier Pass * [691] Upper Twin Lake, Sawatch Mts. [692] Horseshoe Mtn. Park Range [from below] [693] Horseshoe Mtn. Park Range [from above] [697] La Platta Creek, Sawatch Range * [698] Red Rock Falls, Elk Mts. [700] Lower Twin Lake, Sawatch Range [702] Lake Creek Falls, Sawatch Range [703] Natural Bridge, Lake Creek, Sawatch * [706] Elk Lake and Snow Mass, Elk Mts. [707] Treasure Mtn. Elk Mtns. [708] Snow Mass Mtn from South Elk Mts [710] Marron Mtn. Elk Mts. [711] Elk Lake Cascade, Elk Mts * [714] Falls on Rock Creek, Elk Mts. [718] Mount of the Holy Cross, Sawatch Range [719] La Platta Creek, Sawatch Range *

Cf. Douglas Waitley, William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier (Missoula: 1998) 183; cf. Peter B. Hales, William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape (Temple University: 1988).