water-colourist graduate of Troy Female Academy, the later Emma Willard School, Harriet Maria Allen (mother)
by his mother Harriet ;
United States of America
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829-87) on expeditions 1869-71 of the US Geologic Survey of Yellowstone ; W. H. Jackson: Catalogue of the photographs of the US Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (1875) ; Civil War and geological survey photographer ;
U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Department of the Interior
US geological field survey-artist -> Thomas Moran ;
geological painting, watercolour painting, and photography ; collodion wet-plate ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson and further links there ;
L. W. Selmeier: W. H. J. First Camera on Yellowstone, Montana Mag. Western Hist. (1972) ; W. H. J.: Time Exposure (1994) ; Kirchheimer 1982: 58 & 61 ; R. Fabian & H. C. Adam: Frühe Reisen mit der Kamera (1981: 268) ; A. Boni: Photographic Literature (1962: 150) ;