William Henry Jackson photographs of Plains peoples
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 95-20
name: label: Creator
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
label: Names
content: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) (1873-1878) (Hayden Survey)
label: Collector
content: Beaman, John Warren
label: Names
content: Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings
creator: label: Creator
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
culture: label: Culture
content: Wichita
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: John Warren Beaman (1845-1903) completed a three-year course at the Troy Polytechnic Institute in Civil and Mining Engineering and soon afterward began work as a meteorologist with Hayden's 1870 and 1871 surveys in Wyoming Territory, for which William Henry Jackson was the official photographer. After the 1871 Yellowstone Survey, Beaman began teaching at the Red Wing Collegiate Institute in Red Wing, Minnesota, after which he spent much of 1872 visiting Henry Elliott in the Pribilof Islands with his wife, Libby Beaman.

William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was an American painter, photographer and explorer. Born in New York, he sold drawings and retouched photographs from an early age. After serving in the Civil War, he opened a photography studio in Omaha, Nebraska, with his brother Edward. He was photographer for the US Geological and Geographical Surveys (1870-1878), documenting the American west and publishing the first photographs of Yellowstone. When the surveys lost funding in 1879, Jackson opened a studio in Denver, Colorado, and also worked for various railroad companies.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Prints (albumen)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1870-1871
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Betty John, John Warren Beaman's granddaughter, 1995.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.95-20
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected by John Warren Beaman during Ferdinand Hayden's 1870 or 1871 geological surveys of the Yellowstone region. The photographs, probably made by William Henry Jackson, depict Plains people, possibly Wichita, as well as grass houses, a fence, and a dancer.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Jackson photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 60, Photo Lot 93, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot 87-2P, Photo Lot 87-20, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-3, the records of the Department of Anthropology, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Museum of the American Indian Archives holds the William Henry Jackson photographs and negatives, circa 1860-1910.