Main entry:

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, author.

Title & Author:

Time exposure : the autobiography of William Henry Jackson / profusely illustrated with photographs, paintings, and drawings by the author.

Publication:

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940.
©1940.

Description:

x, 341 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:
Illustrations: Author today -- Author's maternal grandparents, Amos and Betsey Wilson Allen, from a daguerreotype made not later than 1845 -- Cartes-de-visite of the '60's: [William Henry Jackson at 17]; [Harriet Maria (Allen) Jackson]; [William Henry Jackson (double exposure)], 1865 -- In camp along the Potomac in the spring of 1863 [painting] : Charley Huntoon and Ned Birdsall -- Mount Killington near Rutland, Vermont [sketch] -- F. Styles's "Vermont Gallery of Art" in Burlington [two sketches] -- Los Angeles in 1867 [sketch] -- Jackson Brothers' "shingle," Omaha, 1868 : When Pawnee meets Sioux / F.O.C. Darley -- Mollie Greer, the author's first wife -- Ferdinand V. Hayden, first United States Geologist, on his favorite horse, Patsy, in Wyoming in 1870 -- Yellowstone River in 1871 -- Thomas Moran on the Mammoth Hot Springs, July 12, 1871 -- Charley Campbell and the author photographing the three Tetons -- Author in 1872, while a member of the U.S. Geological Survey -- Survey's hunters, Joe Clark and a Mexican named Jose, arriving in camp in the Upper Yellowstone, 1872 -- Mountain of the Holy Cross, 1873 -- Mountain of the Holy Cross, 1893, [with author's son in foreground] -- Emilie Painter, the author's second wife -- Author in Washington, D.C., in 1873 -- Photographic division of the 1874 [Geological] Survey, on the way to Los Pinos and the Mesa Verde : [Frank] Smart; [Ed] Anthony; [Bob] Mitchell; Whan; Ernest Ingersoll; Charley [Charlie], our cook; Dolly, my mule -- Chief Tush-a-qui-not [Peah], in ceremonial dress of Uncompahgre Utes, at Los Pinos Agency, Colorado, 1874 -- John Moss and Cooper at cliff dwelling of Mesa Verde, 1874 -- Seneca Lake in the Wind River Mountains, 1878, Fremont Peak on horizon -- Main street of Creede, Colorado, in the early '80's -- Author's family in 1888, [including] brother-in-law, Orrin Painter, and Johnson, of the Southern Pacific Railroad -- Author dressed for his sledge trip in Eastern Siberia -- Train of Bactrian camels on the Amur River on the way to Krasnoyarsk -- Golden wedding anniversary of the author's parents, [including daughters,] Emma and Mary Elizabeth; [and sons,] Allen, [William Henry], Ed, Frank, and Fred -- Private car, "California Special," in which the author toured the Southwest -- Two of four murals, Powell Survey of the Colorado River; Hayden Survey of the Yellowstone, painted in 1935-1936 by the author for the Department of the Interior -- Memorial Day, 1940.

Summary:

"...Tells the story of a boyhood in upstate New York during the fifties; of a Union soldier's adventures along the Potomac and at Gettysburg; of the Great Plains before a railroad spanned the continent; of the early Mormon settlement at Great Salt Lake; of wild Spanish horses in California; and of Indians in the Southwest. It is the story of the unexplored Yellowstone, and how Mr. Jackson's photographs caused Congress to set aside the region as our first national park; of Cheyenne and the meeting of the Union Pacific rails in 1869; of Denver and the fabulous Leadville of the seventies."--Book jacket.

Subject:

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942.
Photographers United States Biography.
Artists United States Biography.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Artistes États-Unis Biographies.
Artists
Photographers
United States

Form/genre:

autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autographs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 13040
Call No.: ID:87-B3591
Status: Available