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After traveling extensively and attempting to make a living by making photographs, William Henry Jackson combined his artistic skill in the fledgling art of photography with his spirit for adventure when he began photographing for the U. S. Geological Survey in 1870. The Survey was set up in 1867 under the auspices of the Land Office of the Department of the Interior in Washington. Designed to create an official record of the vast unknown territory of the West, the Survey consisted of about twenty men including topographers, a meteorologist, an ethnologist, and artists. For Jackson, the experience of working with the Survey would prove priceless. It took him all over the West during a period of nine years, establishing him as one of the foremost landscape photographers in the country and assuring his renoun.
During the 1880s Jackson chose his own destinations and began to take his photographs with more of an eye to the bottom line. He continued to travel, but now it was for the railroad companies and hotels that saw the value of advertising their scenic attractions. In 1892, Jackson was offered the opportunity to travel around the world by a grandiose publicity man from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Called the World's Transportation Commission, the tour lasted seventeen months and took Jackson and the others to Europe, northern Africa, Australia, and deep into many parts of Asia.
In the United States, one area that Jackson returned to time and time again was Yellowstone. In fact, Jackson's photographs played a large part in influencing Congress to create Yellowstone National Park in 1872. But the camera's inability to capture the astonishing colors of the area frustrated Jackson, who fell back on painting techniques and other manipulations to achieve the desired effects.
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