William Henry Jackson: 8 works

'William Henry Jackson (1843-1942); Upper Falls, Yellowstone, Near View from the West Side; 1871; Albumen silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; P1981.53.1'

'William Henry Jackson made this photograph standing in one such engineering achievement--a tunnel for the Colorado Midland Railway. He positioned his camera so that the craggy mouth of the tunnel created a natural frame for a well-dressed group of passengers assembled on and around a train's caboose, with the mountains beyond.'

'William Henry Jackson's photograph shows a train on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad passing through a remote wilderness area.'

'After years of struggling to capture the grandeur of the Western landscape, William Henry Jackson made this sublime view of the Grand Canyon.'

'William Henry Jackson hiked partway into the dry, inhospitable creekbed to make this image, pointing his camera upward to maximize the bridge's height and to highlight the Union Pacific's engineering achievement.'

'Juxtaposing one engineering feat with another, William Henry Jackson made this photograph of a railroad engine passing beneath an arch of an aqueduct, sixty-nine feet high.'

'Jackson made this photograph in the 1880s, when settlers were moving farther and farther westward.'

'In his picture of Clear Creek Canyon, the ragged contours of a V-shaped cut, made for the rails' passage through the Rockies, were dramatic and alien to Americans in the East and Midwest, where mountains could best be described as rolling rather than thrusting.'