William Henry Jackson
Album of 187 Albumen Prints of the American West, 1876
Albumen Silver
3 x 3" to 10 x 14"
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This monumental Grand Tour album, consisting of 187 albumen silver photographs by the most important 19th-century American photographers, was compiled at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Photographers represented in this...
This monumental Grand Tour album, consisting of 187 albumen silver photographs by the most important 19th-century American photographers, was compiled at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Photographers represented in this album include William Henry Jackson, Charles Savage, Carleton Watkins, Charles Bierstadt, Seneca Ray Stoddard, and others; depicting subjects as varied as Yosemite, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone, American West, portraiture, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, etc. This definitive album of American Photography is remarkably well-preserved. Please inquire for a full list of images.
Voyage Aux Etats-Unis, 1876
The first picture in the album is of the eminent geologist and chemist Thoms Sterry Hunt (1826-1892. Hunt was a student at Yale of Benjamin Stillman, and in the 1840s became first the chemist for the Geological Survey of Vermont, then for the Geological Survey of Canada. He taught at MacGill University and in the 1872-1878 at MIT. He published over 350 papers, including 18 while he was a student at Yale between 1844-1846. In 1876 he was in Philadelphia for two events, the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in which he and a few colleagues had been appointed by the American Iron and Steel Association to collect, classify, and analyze the iron ores and coals of the United States for an Expo presentation and he was also a juror at this Exposition. He also was a co-founder of the International Geological Congress that was founded in Philadelphia in 1876.
Voyage Aux Etats-Unis, 1876
The first picture in the album is of the eminent geologist and chemist Thoms Sterry Hunt (1826-1892. Hunt was a student at Yale of Benjamin Stillman, and in the 1840s became first the chemist for the Geological Survey of Vermont, then for the Geological Survey of Canada. He taught at MacGill University and in the 1872-1878 at MIT. He published over 350 papers, including 18 while he was a student at Yale between 1844-1846. In 1876 he was in Philadelphia for two events, the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in which he and a few colleagues had been appointed by the American Iron and Steel Association to collect, classify, and analyze the iron ores and coals of the United States for an Expo presentation and he was also a juror at this Exposition. He also was a co-founder of the International Geological Congress that was founded in Philadelphia in 1876.