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William Henry Jackson is known as
"The Famed Photographer of the West,"
referring, of course, to
western United States.
For years he accompanied teams of
the U.S. Geological Survey on mapping expeditions to remote
areas of the largely uncharted West. His photographs of
Yellowstone were seen to be responsible
for the decision by
Congress to form the first National Park in the U.S. In
later years
he published many of his photographs via his
company, The Detroit Photographic Company,
and among the
photographs were those known as "photochromes," or
lithographically
colored (with numerous solid-color passes) of
black and white photographically produced images.
This
image of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde (National Park) was
among those published.
The image itself is noteworthy
because it is the first photograph taken of these
now-famous ruins,
Jackson having been taken to the site by the Wetherill brothers (local ranchers who first "discovered" the
site).
The Wetherill brothers are visible just right of center.
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