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Marshall Pass, Colorado
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William Henry JacksonAmerican Photographer · 1843–1942
All works by this person →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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- 1899
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Atop Mount Ouray in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, William Henry Jackson made this panoramic photograph of a train traversing Marshall Pass. The billowing steam engine is barely visible in the center foreground, about to pass a group of sheds that line the track. Jackson made this photograph in the 1880s, when settlers were moving farther and farther westward. At the time, he was working for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which would have used the photograph to advertise the handsome scenery surrounding the route.
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