Cheyenne Falls

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Cheyenne Falls

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William Henry Jackson

American Photographer · 1843–1942

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From age twelve until age ninety-nine, William Henry Jackson was involved on some level with photography. After a tour of duty in the Civil War, he headed West and eventually settled in Omaha, Nebraska, where he opened a portrait photography studio with his brother Edward. As Jackson explained, however, "Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops,

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Date
about 1873–1884
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
95d72f1d-66b8-4d01-88da-b2516a84b5c3

A man standing on a log in front of a waterfall, cascading down a rocky cliff. A boy is sitting in a rowboat at the mouth of the falls below the man. A wooden staircase runs up the cliff wall beside the waterfall.

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