WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON (1843-1942) and JOHN K. HILLERS (1843-1925)
Photographs of U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey (Hayden Survey), Volumes I-V, 1869-1874
WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON (1843-1942) and JOHN K. HILLERS (1843-1925) Photographs of U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey (Hayden Survey), Volumes I-V, 1869-1874 260 albumen prints, largely devoted to studies of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Yellowstone Park (including, atypically, 9 Native American portrait studies, Volume V), the majority with printed titles (in the negative), affixed captions and mounted on plates with U.S. Geological Survey imprint; image, each with varying dimensions from 4¼ x 7¼in. (10.7 x 16.3cm.) to 13 x 10in. (33 x 25.5cm.); bound in 5 large 4to./folio volumes with half-morocco binding and gilt-impressed titles (on the spine); each signed by Jackson in pencil (on the fly-leaf) and inscribed 'From the Library of Sheldon Jackson presented to the National Geographic Society' in ink (on the front endpaper) (5)
WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON (1843-1942) and JOHN K. HILLERS (1843-1925)
Photographs of U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey (Hayden Survey), Volumes I-V, 1869-1874
WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON (1843-1942) and JOHN K. HILLERS (1843-1925) Photographs of U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey (Hayden Survey), Volumes I-V, 1869-1874 260 albumen prints, largely devoted to studies of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Yellowstone Park (including, atypically, 9 Native American portrait studies, Volume V), the majority with printed titles (in the negative), affixed captions and mounted on plates with U.S. Geological Survey imprint; image, each with varying dimensions from 4¼ x 7¼in. (10.7 x 16.3cm.) to 13 x 10in. (33 x 25.5cm.); bound in 5 large 4to./folio volumes with half-morocco binding and gilt-impressed titles (on the spine); each signed by Jackson in pencil (on the fly-leaf) and inscribed 'From the Library of Sheldon Jackson presented to the National Geographic Society' in ink (on the front endpaper) (5)
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