William H. Jackson

(1843-1942) lived in Omaha. Photographer, painter, explorer, assisted the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the West as photographer, was first to photograph natural beauty of Yellowstone, which prompted Congress to preserve the region. Consult Sunday World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, August 11, 1985, pp. 10, 12-13 and American National Biography, Vol 11 (1999) 780-781.

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